Example sentences of "[noun pl] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenant farmers with a year 's rent arrears might be evicted on a fortnight 's notice . |
| 2 | The oldest book source that Highlanders might refer to for plant lore is probably the Bible . |
| 3 | One was that PNP appointees were ‘ real ’ teachers , not supplies or ancillaries , and were to be treated as such , even though their roles might be more diverse than the traditional anchor of class-teaching . |
| 4 | How their roles might be enhanced in recognition of the behavioural literature will be examined to some extent in chapter 9 . |
| 5 | The story as a whole only begins to make sense when the reader appreciates that , in appropriate circumstances , all these roles might be filled by one and the same individual . |
| 6 | The pleas for conservative guards might have died away had it not been for the Bristol riots which broke out on 29 October and raged for three days . |
| 7 | Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership . |
| 8 | In the meantime , he suggested local authorities and individual schools might introduce their own schemes . |
| 9 | In May , the McNair Committee had reported on the future of teacher training ; late in July the Fleming Report suggested some of the ways in which the Public Schools might be integrated into the national educational system . |
| 10 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |
| 11 | The Report suggested two ways in which direct-grant and other schools might be drawn into patterns of local provision : either as full-grant schools ( a new category ) , or as voluntary-aided or controlled schools along the well-established lines defined in 1944 . |
| 12 | Such schools might , gradually , become selective , and indeed might be very like the old direct grant schools , abolished by the Labour Government in 1966 . |
| 13 | Moreover in The Tablet ( 16 April 1958 ) Shirley Williams pointed out another advantage that grant-maintained schools might have : Mr Baker has laid down that LEA schools must take in children up to the 1979 limit of numbers , so that as many parents as possible can get their children in , if they choose a particular school . |
| 14 | One can see that cluster sampling of a city 's schools might result in a complete set of working-class schools with no middle-class ones at all ; or even completely middle-with no working-class . |
| 15 | The general point is that primary schools might be more imaginative and flexible in their deployment of staff : there is no law that says that there should be one teacher to one class for all of the time , and that this is the best possible arrangement in all circumstances . |
| 16 | In the last two chapters , Chapters 8 and 9 , we will finally come to the question of the directions in which teacher-supported change to schools might proceed . |
| 17 | For several reasons , it might also have been expected , and will be seen later to have been the case , that some of the younger teachers in the higher status selective schools might become allies of those in the universities beginning to press for change . |
| 18 | The sadness is the greater as the Act comes at a time when the accumulated wisdom from attempts to improve schools was establishing a consensus on how schools might more effectively meet the needs of all pupils . |
| 19 | For instance , schools might make one of the four arts subjects compulsory or might institute modular or combined arts courses to cover two or more of the arts subject . |
| 20 | In the technical constrained options , schools might make CDT compulsory or offer a choice between CDT , computer studies or some other technical/vocational subject . |
| 21 | Education programmes at earlier ages in primary schools might be more successful . |
| 22 | A copy of these is included in Appendix 3 , but we may note that they include a statement of aims and objectives , a list of members of the Coordinating Team , a structure for the school 's policy proposal ( including a spending plan ) , some notes on how schools might go about developing their proposal and certain limits within which the money must be spent . |
| 23 | Both the head and the DCSL freely acknowledged that these developments were undertaken in the light of knowledge that a library project existed , and that schools might stand a better chance of securing a grant if they could show evidence of commitment to enhanced library provision . |
| 24 | However , our impression is that committees in the Major Project schools were usually more participatory and less dominated by key senior staff than the examples of these two schools might suggest . |
| 25 | Writing for children in other schools might be a useful way of developing the ability to do this , and certainly many schools have found this " experience-exchange " a very valuable means of increasing children 's motivation to improve both the content and the presentation of their writing . |
| 26 | Schools might be encouraged to use INSET resources to enable subject teachers to teach together and review the curriculum in their own subject areas . |
| 27 | Correspondingly , unpopular schools might expect to contract to a point at which they lose their viability . |
| 28 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 29 | The observation that large , predatory species of fish do not usually swim in schools might lead us to suggest that the advantage of schooling is in defence against predators , for large predatory fish are not themselves subject to predation . |
| 30 | Similarly , amalgamated schools might well enter their subject indexes . |