Example sentences of "it might [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 2 | It might reasonably be expected that a child placed in a special class would make more progress after the placement than during a comparable time period before the placement . |
| 3 | Why , it might reasonably be asked , does someone who on paper was merely a competent county allrounder justify a centenary tribute ? |
| 4 | This is defined as the rent which it might reasonably be expected to command if let from year to year , with the tenant bearing the rates and the cost of insurance and repairs . |
| 5 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 6 | ‘ The first question to be decided by the court is whether on the undisputed or incontrovertible facts there appears to be a question deserving fuller investigation and whether it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the child for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |
| 7 | Adopting that approach to the facts and circumstances of the present application I am satisfied that it raises a question deserving a fuller investigation , and , if that investigation were to favour [ the foster mother ] , that it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the children ( or one or more of them ) for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |
| 8 | If it might reasonably have been foreseen that the pregnant woman might be injured by his carelessness , it must follow that the possibility of injury on birth to the child she was carrying must equally be taken to have been reasonably foreseeable . … |
| 9 | It might reasonably be queried why this probe was n't taken much further along the vein . |
| 10 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 11 | If the higher rate of detection of M paratuberculosis found in the Crohn 's disease cultures were simply a consequence of the disease process itself , then it might reasonably be expected that the closely related M avium subsp silvaticum would be similarly distributed . |
| 12 | Erm secondly , it might reasonably be expected to demonstrate that it would be in the interests of either the region , regional or sub- regional economy . |
| 13 | There was another possibility for this L-shaped trail : rather than showing the death of a new mesotron it might instead show a known muon that somehow had been captured by the matter around it , extracted energy from it and then shot off again : this was the suggestion that Blackett had made , and Charles Frank began to think about it . |
| 14 | The combination of Germany 's loose asylum laws with 80 million Turks as citizens of the Union need not lead to a rigid common policy on immigration and residence ; it might instead lead to a flexible approach to these issues , allowing Member States to adopt policies in accordance with their own national needs . |
| 15 | An enlarged Community need not offer similar welfare rights to Swedish and polish workers ; it might instead come to reflect local market considerations within its different member countries . |
| 16 | It might additionally be thought to be undesirable that trivial assaults have to be prosecuted with an offence carrying the heavy maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | Finally , All that Dwell Therein shows that the debate is important , not just for the effect it might ultimately have on our treatment of animals , but for what it might reveal about ourselves . |
| 18 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
| 19 | Dr Tim Higenbottam , a chest consultant at Papworth hospital , Cambridge , said yesterday it might soon be possible to transplant heart , kidney , liver , and lungs from one animal species to another . |
| 20 | I had no way of telling what time it was , but surely it might soon be possible for me to escape from my desert island and make my way back to the cottage and a warm bed . |
| 21 | If it had faltered , it might soon have been overrun by competitors , including IBM Credit Corp . |
| 22 | Others look at China 's economic renaissance and quake with fear , about wages one-tenth of those in industrial countries , and about political ambitions that it might soon be able to afford . |
| 23 | This cannon , too , had been fired a great deal and although its muzzle had shown no distortion Harry had an uneasy feeling that it might soon be about to burst . |
| 24 | And what 's cooking for Ian , Hattie and Steve it might soon be their financial books . |
| 25 | It might already have occurred to you that the routine can be varied to produce different benefits . |
| 26 | A bloodily turbulent Soviet Union would cast an economic shadow over Germany especially , but would damage business and consumer confidence more widely , at a time when it might already be extremely fragile . |
| 27 | ‘ Nobody big enough , and anyway , it might already be too late for that . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You think it might already be too late ? ’ |
| 29 | This happened rather often , and if the inhabitants of Oswaldston had not mostly been shut up in front of their televisions at this time of day , it might already have given rise to some talk . |
| 30 | It might already be too late . |