Example sentences of "might [be] think " in BNC.
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| 1 | I honestly had no idea of what they might be thinking or what to make of it myself . |
| 2 | Anyone who might be thinking of embarking on one of their saddlery courses should be aware that some specialist tools will need to be bought . |
| 3 | ‘ Why , what did you think I might be thinking about ? ’ |
| 4 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
| 5 | To date , Washington has amassed career earnings of $512,272 , ( 7/4/92 ) , a figure which demonstrates to others who might be thinking of following in his footsteps that tennis can be as lucrative as either baseball or basketball . |
| 6 | It says right here on your records that you might be thinking of wimping out on us . |
| 7 | Now she 'd spoken his name she was committed , intent on preserving her dignity : making the point to her attractive companion that , whatever he might be thinking , she was n't in the market for love — or the poor reproduction of that emotion that a lot of men produced in the pursuit of sexual thrills . |
| 8 | It is structured to provide information for those who have to ‘ flesh out ’ a module as well as discussing criterion-referenced assessment and choice of assessment instruments in more detail for those who might be thinking of developing their own module or seeking permission to vary the assessment instruments in an existing module . |
| 9 | ‘ Clare said you might be thinking of leaving . |
| 10 | Some of you might be thinking , well , I 'm never going to advocate , I never intend to go anywhere near a court . |
| 11 | You could be looking at a minimum of one , two , three years ' salary , because you might be thinking well at least that 'll give me a chance to get on , to get back on my feet . |
| 12 | Where if you 're fairly new , you do n't know them people , you might be thinking you have to have a timed appointment to go in with , where you 'll save a lot of time by just building up , and working on your existing like that . |
| 13 | It was hard to tell what he might be thinking . |
| 14 | By then I might be thinking straight . ’ |
| 15 | they might be thinking that we 'll relax , we do n't really know.They could be playing for time.It could be they are seriously re-thinking . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The poem might be thought self-pitying if it were more believable . |
| 18 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 21 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 22 | To an observer Wexford might be thought only to be sitting , like many other inhabitants of Kingsmarkham , waiting for the storm to break . |
| 23 | This might be thought to be the ulsterior motive surfacing ; but if so , it has to be balanced by Lewis 's unconquerable distaste for hymns ( not a markedly Protestant trait ) . |
| 24 | Any estate owner who achieved this might be thought to have made a notable bargain . |
| 25 | In the case of Jesus it might be thought that he represents the management , not the workers . |
| 26 | The merit of separate qualified defences is that they focus the evidence and the legal argument , giving the jury ( in contested cases ) an opportunity to assess the defence , and giving the judge fairly precise guidance on the basis for sentencing : this might be thought to ensure that each defendant is dealt with more fairly , but the risk of confusing the jury in a contested case might tend to erode that protection . |
| 27 | For many others the choice of hymns is probably restricted to ‘ Love divine all loves excelling ’ and ‘ Away in a manger ’ , neither of which , it might be thought , is very suitable for the occasion ! |
| 28 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 29 | The wide mouth might be thought of as a kind of lawn mower for taking up vast quantities of grass to support their huge bodies . |
| 30 | It might be thought that the actor 's art also reflects the continual struggle between participants in a social situation to share their private worlds through public media of language and gesture , what Arthur Brittan ( 1973 ) refers to as ‘ negotiation of meaning ’ . |