Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenant farmers with a year 's rent arrears might be evicted on a fortnight 's notice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How their roles might be enhanced in recognition of the behavioural literature will be examined to some extent in chapter 9 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Education programmes at earlier ages in primary schools might be more successful . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Schools might be encouraged to use INSET resources to enable subject teachers to teach together and review the curriculum in their own subject areas . |
| 12 | Choppy Spencer , you 've heard Harvey Markovitch suggest that if schools opted out certain very important facets of the schools might be trimmed down terrifically , or might be excluded altogether , like for instance music teaching . |
| 13 | Pictures might be found in books which ‘ look like ’ the family pet , and these could be discussed . |
| 14 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 15 | But as fear of Soviet intentions increased , so some in Britain began to feel that concessions might be necessary in order to secure at least a degree of American backing in the region . |
| 16 | Watch the traffic outside for things that move fast or more slowly ; the cars might be counted and compared for size , shape or colour . |
| 17 | During 1949 as the first stage of the tram scrapping programme was drawing near , V. J. Matterface , formerly of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and now Tramways Engineer to Leeds City Transport , was able to persuade his new masters that the modern Feltham cars might be a good buy when London Transport had finished with them . |
| 18 | Fearing that Austrian reprisals might be possible if she stayed on the continent , Hortense decided to take her son to England , stopping off in Paris on their way in the hope that the new King , Louis-Philippe , might allow her to stay there , at least for a time . |
| 19 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 20 | We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes . |
| 21 | Mr Les Aspin , the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , warned that US military police units might be forced to stay in Panama for at least a year to help keep the peace . |
| 22 | Although the officers of these contrasting units might be held responsible for both the good and the bad behaviour , there is a touch of the ‘ kind ’ and the ‘ nasty ’ treatment often meted out to prisoners in the hope of gaining information . |
| 23 | Thus the control and data manipulation units might be timed by one clock , the store by a second , and each transput device by its own clock . |
| 24 | He wished all the units had gone self-governing to allow the district to concentrate on its needs assessment and purchasing role and predicted that the units might be expecting a cosier relationship than he anticipated . |
| 25 | A further judgment which affected press practices was made on June 24 when the court ruled 5:4 that news organizations might be sued for breaking promises of confidentiality to their sources . |
| 26 | Pound replied that Aristophanes might be depressing , and that to raise the heavy phallus to its desired height Dixie folk melodies might be more effective . |
| 27 | A spokesman from the firm responsible said : ‘ Some of the designs might be a bit near the knuckle , but the bonking snowmen have been so sucessful that we 've commissioned even more variations for next year . ’ |
| 28 | What images might be more accurate or more precise ? |
| 29 | They live in a world of echoes , and probably their brains can use echoes to do something akin to " seeing " images , although it is next to impossible for us to " visualize " what those images might be like . |
| 30 | Insurers might be similarly tempted to screen out high risks who may file earlier or more frequent claims due to illness or early death . |