Example sentences of "might [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One way to cut down on cars in cities might be to be to make this form of travel much less convenient , by cutting the number of parking places available in cities , for the public and companies alike — hardly popular measures . |
| 32 | As she was a devout Anglican , somewhat callously I may have thought that death to her was not the ‘ end ’ it might be to others . |
| 33 | It might be to Jeddah , or to Karachi , or to Budapest . |
| 34 | He must make decisions about what was historically important , not about , let us say , what was theologically or aesthetically important , significant though that might be to a believer or an artist . |
| 35 | The ability of the politician to provide patronage , of whatever nature , was never more than a tool of management , and however useful it might be to the man who could supply it , patronage in itself did not remove the need for active and continuous management of the voters included within the interest . |
| 36 | An alternative might be to just to ask whether some of our membership forms could be put out so that |
| 37 | These might be to : ‘ go swimming for thirty minutes after work once a week ’ , ‘ use the stairs rather than the lift ’ , ‘ walk to the restaurant instead of driving ’ . |
| 38 | " Might be to me . |
| 39 | Local transport agencies should be asked to consider changes in timetabling or re-routing where this might be to the benefit of staff . |
| 40 | I might be to you but it 's this is going to a parent ! |
| 41 | While it might be to your advantage to do so at the earliest opportunity , there is nevertheless no legal urgency for you to make the journey other than at your convenience . |
| 42 | Whatever our personal reactions might be to a production , that is the only real test . |
| 43 | Burgess did n't much like leaving whatever risk there might be to the Inspector , but he did as he was told . |
| 44 | She suspected that the Bishop and the Archdeacon had invited her to the meeting more to enlist her help as a sleuth than as a source of information of a kind which might be to them , in any case , unwelcome . |
| 45 | He thought about how it might be to be , say , a fox confronted with an angry sheep . |
| 46 | The one I have chosen is this — brief , informal letters , written from time to time as our work proceeds , in a plain , straightforward style , as it might be to a friend . |
| 47 | … as it might be to a friend . |
| 48 | Attractive he might be to some people , but he was out of her league and anyway , she was n't interested . |
| 49 | Oh I would n't he might be to you but he 's worth it to us . |
| 50 | Like the ‘ bogeyman ’ used by mother to frighten her recalcitrant children into better behaviour , syphilis or ‘ the pox ’ is used by scaremongering educators to put the fear of God into those people they think might be at risk of catching VD . |
| 51 | It is left as an exercise for the reader to think of other mechanisms which might be at work . |
| 52 | Even the rare successful defence might be at a price . |
| 53 | We were sent out in pairs after 6 pm in the evening when all the paterfamilias who were left might be at home , to make a thorough census of the district and ask who might be in a house , when , and what were the provisions for even more serious raiding . |
| 54 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 55 | This might be at the local golf club , the WI , the church , the Ratepayers Association , trade union , bird-watching club and so on . |
| 56 | Twice a week it might be at the moment . |
| 57 | Vain they might be at times , dangerous , vicious even , when the devil was in them . |
| 58 | Landlord might be at risk financially , the subtenancy proposed being at a premium and a low rent . |
| 59 | Those that have seemed to indicate that ESP might be at work have generally later been discredited : either the subject of the experiment has been proven to be a charlatan or the experimental procedure itself has been shown to be flawed . |
| 60 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |