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 . |