Example sentences of "it might [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another reason why coaching does not occur as often as it might is due to the time pressures which every manager faces . |
| 2 | It might be helpful to take to your solicitor a form of words to cover your gift to ACET and we suggest the following : ‘ To ACET of Paramount House , 71/75 Uxbridge Road , Ealing , London W5 for its general purposes ( one of these alternatives ) : ’ |
| 3 | It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books . |
| 4 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 5 | Her Birmingham background is hinted at and if you can manage a Birmingham accent it might be useful , but it is not essential in finding the character . |
| 6 | But it was n't as bad as I thought it might be . |
| 7 | In 1976 the Lord Chief Justice , dismissing Bass Charrington 's appeal against a proposal to ‘ open up ’ the interior at the Romans Hotel in Southwick , Sussex , declared that it might be ‘ undesirable in the public interest to see more public bars disappearing and more mergers of public and saloon bars of the kind in question here … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It might be as well , ’ she said majestically , ‘ if we all said where we were when it happened . |
| 9 | Though it might be fanciful to assert that this passage heralds the arrival of Hercule Poirot on the literary scene , it is clear that the Digression prepares the way for the development of the whodunnit form , and particularly of the private detective , ‘ the righteous unraveller ’ , whose task it will be to solve the murder . |
| 10 | A more important reason not to experiment is to avoid the possibility of getting the glider into an untested mode of spin from which it might be difficult or impossible to recover . |
| 11 | ‘ And Mr Cameron — it might be convenient for you as well. t , ‘ If I could tell you … |
| 12 | She made no effort to turn over , although she thought about it , imagined how it might be to lean on one elbow , to twist her body in a single movement . |
| 13 | It might be interpreted as saying that V has a mode of access to his own brain different from any modes of access to V 's brain available to BS ; or that V has a different mode of access to the external world , and that this constitutes the difference between him and BS . |
| 14 | It might be thought that the subject 's apprehension of his own brain is more immediate and more holistic than any external knowledge , however complete , and that this explains the experiential difference between the two kinds of knowledge . |
| 15 | In constructivism we view the organism-environment dyad from the outside and ask how it might be possible that an organism which has input systems and which is active could ever come to know that the environment exists . |
| 16 | If you feel that there is a need for a particular kind of care , ask whether it might be arranged . |
| 17 | A more realistic and simple proposal was investigated by the GLC who concluded that it might be possible to reopen the link for as little as £1million . |
| 18 | I hoped it would be put to use , though there was a chance it might be just ballast for the journey . |
| 19 | And while it might be said that his version of pochvennost comes from this same source , and while it is certainly true that pochvennost deserves a longer footnote than the Petrine reforms , a footnote is all it should be . |
| 20 | It might be objected that the doubleness is just a trick of Porfiry 's . |
| 21 | In practice , given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence . |
| 22 | But an option in it might be provided for those who were curious about what English poetry was like before , so to speak , it became English . |
| 23 | is the old terrace live as it might be |
| 24 | I think I know what this might mean , or what it might be made to mean . |
| 25 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 26 | John Ruskin , it might be said , was the last considerable figure before Pound to hold in all seriousness , as Pound did , that the level of craftsmanship and artistry in a society was the one infallible measure of that society 's moral and civic health . |
| 27 | Lord Donaldson attacked the White Paper 's suggestion that it might be in the public interest to allow other professions , such as accountants , to be given rights of audience in the courts . |
| 28 | There was a feeling in the air that it might be time for a change . |
| 29 | However , it will not provide the bumper take-out price implied by the recent performance of the Jaguar share price , offering instead some guidance as to what it might be in the future . |
| 30 | By evening the largest society , the Halifax , had dropped an earlier hope it might be able to resist the rise . |