Example sentences of "might [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It seems the French might be onto something .
2 A further use for ‘ Ruby Trax ’ on those long , winter evenings might be as catalyst for a ‘ Who The Hell Did This One , Then ? ’ party .
3 An applicant for judicial review may lose the case no matter how sound it might be as a matter of substantive ( as opposed to remedial ) law if , for example , he or she pursues the wrong procedure for seeking a remedy or does not satisfy the rules of standing ( see Chapter 3 ) .
4 This might be as a result of the weight of endoscopy biopsy samples .
5 It might be about Uncle Walter .
6 Whatever our misgivings about the story 's historicity ( and we make a grave and fundamental error if we think the value of a passage like this is measured by the extent of its historicity ) , and however confident we might be about its origins , it asks and surely deserves to be taken on the storyteller 's own terms .
7 Then you 're either fortunate or perhaps less aware than you might be about what is going on .
8 At different stages in your treatment of a sequence , these questions might be about : ( i ) the characters ( Who are the people ? ) , the setting ( Where are they ? ) , their roles ( Why are they there ?
9 Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later .
10 ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’
11 They might be about er a month old , perhaps six weeks old and we used to get them sometimes , most of the time we would get about four there , sometimes three .
12 I 've still got another week to come though , that might be about January the third onwards , for a week .
13 Ah , you mean , might say something privately here , not knowing that switched on and it might be about somebody else and that person might know that person er with the evidence
14 This might be via a dunk tank or entry port to an isolator or simply to a clean isolation room .
15 The chapter on Explaining made trouble for Positivist ideas of explanation but did not suggest that they might be beside the point .
16 The amount of the Japanese contribution to the planned fund to promote free-market investment was not specified , but the Japanese press suggested that it might be below the US$1,000,000 which the US government was seeking from Japan .
17 On the day of the removal , board any pets with friends for the day , it is too upsetting for them and , anyway , dogs and cats might be under your feet .
18 Professor Ferguson and I said that a routine clinical history and examination ( preferably in private ) were essential in helping to establish the correct diagnosis and treatment of all patients , particularly in people who might be under the mistaken impression that their symptoms were due to allergy .
19 I thought she might be under the front part of the colonnade , and peered cautiously round the corner .
20 Clearly , outright control does indeed take place , but on a day-to-day level social stability is secured largely through people feeling that they might be under scrutiny .
21 The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker .
22 The case established that there can be more than one occupier of the same premises , although the duty required of each might be different : e.g. a seaside promenade might be under the control of a local authority and the water authority as part of the sea defences .
23 I was genuinely concerned that Bev might be under some stress or pressure from the many attacks she was dealing with .
24 In January nineteen forty , a scientist named Charles Barrell , er was examining that portrait , not as an art historian , but scientifically , and of course there 's always the question with portraits of what might be under it , because er canvas was very very expensive and people did n't waste materials then as they do now , because they were in relatively short supply , good painting canvas .
25 Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ?
26 These might be along the lines of :
27 Perhaps as a final word , I might be per better to echo the chief planning inspector Stephen who at this year 's T C P summer school , said , Neither statute or policy rule out the practical application of common sense in unusual or exceptional circumstances .
28 Since the news in early March that the leading party in the Basque parliament , the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) was , controversially , in a process of negotiation with ETA 's political wing , Herri Batasuna , there had been increasing speculation that the Spanish government might be considering negotiating a settlement with more moderate elements within the ETA leadership .
29 It seemed possible that she might be into chucking men over her shoulder and spifflicating them .
30 No no , the idea of something communal , and spontaneous , she said , which sounded like the ‘ it ’ of any other bag you might be into .
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