Example sentences of "might be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | that after to-night I might be of no further use , & should resign with the whole Cabinet . |
| 2 | MacDonald said that he ‘ might be of no further use , & should resign with the whole Cabinet ’ ; the night before his interview with the King , Baldwin had gone to Neville Chamberlain 's house in Eaton Square , and ‘ hoped and prayed that he might not have to join a National Government ’ ; even after his interview with the King . |
| 3 | Particularly in countries where the diet is poor it might be of very considerable significance if the mother can make better milk at some times of the day . |
| 4 | A barn with a central threshing floor would be at least three structural bays in length , each bay being perhaps 4.25–5.5m ( about 14–18ft ) long , although the distance between roof trusses could be smaller ( say , 3m ( 10ft ) ) , the bays might be of different lengths and the simple triangular roof trusses might not span more than 5.5–6m ( 18-19-1/2ft ) ( Plate 3 ) . |
| 5 | These might be of equal size or one small one and one larger one . |
| 6 | They had wonderful opportunities for sport and also for learning as many things as possible that might be of use for their future development . |
| 7 | Its aim was to bring into ‘ one easy and concise view ’ what might be of use to those ‘ hindered by other avocations from bestowing much time in the study of this delightful and innocent work ’ . |
| 8 | After the six inner-city journeys there is information on those parts of the far-flung city that might be of interest , together with transport suggestions for reaching them . |
| 9 | During our arrangements of locations for filming the Project Video , we have collected a variety of leaflets and pieces of information which might be of interest for your research on the Activity Book . |
| 10 | It 's been estimated that this might be of the order of one cubic kilometre per year . |
| 11 | And he put his sons to read , that they might be of the better understanding , and he made them take arms , and be shown how to demean themselves in battle , and to be huntsmen . |
| 12 | Some companies ( particularly in the USA ) , in response to these and other factors , decided in the late 70s and early 80s that they should designate within their organisations a person or persons whose job would be to specialise in the acquisition and processing of information from the environment that might be of potential strategic importance . |
| 13 | The result is that the publicly available information resource that might be of relevance to strategic decision making presents an extremely confusing picture to the executive decision maker . |
| 14 | The overall impression resulting from these findings is that emergency services specifically designed for potential attempters might be of benefit to some , but the impulsive nature of the act , and the fact that the attempt often appears to be carried out with a particular purpose not related to help-seeking , but aimed at someone in close proximity , reduces the chances of preventing suicide attempts by this method alone . |
| 15 | He thought it might be of use to the ‘ curious ’ Mr Goldney in the making of porcelain . |
| 16 | But she no longer treated him with the old irritable dismissiveness ; she knew of Edouard 's reputation as a businessman , and obviously had heard his abilities praised , for she now regarded him warily , as if trying to decide whether , after all , she might have been wrong , and her younger son might be of use to her . |
| 17 | I thought this photograph might be of interest to you . |
| 18 | IF more than one member of your family has shares to sell then a new scheme might be of benefit . |
| 19 | So therefore it might be of more interest to practitioners if I take some typical enquiries and describe the way they are tackled . |
| 20 | The engineer with the irreverent sense of humour who would n't give houseroom to a defunct machine but who would carefully dismantle and put by any parts that might be of use later on would — this time next year — be helping to nourish the rose beds . |
| 21 | Perhaps this information might be of interest to others . |
| 22 | There was no evidence that Berowne had started his own meal — that in itself might be of some help in deciding on the approximate time of death — but he had apparently either cajoled Harry into the church with the promise of a meal or , more likely , had supplied an obvious and immediate need before he was ready for his own share of the supper . |
| 23 | Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) . |
| 24 | More senior posts were employed as tools of patronage at a higher level , for they might be the object of the ambition of a substantial freeholder with his own political interest , whose support might be of value to the Administration directly . |
| 25 | ‘ Craigbarnet I know is poor and the interest of his friends might be of service , ’ the duke remarked , ‘ but do you know that he was att Sheriff Moor , how would that sound here ? ’ |
| 26 | The stimulus which carried Boycott and Steele along might be of help to others who took on the world from modest beginnings . |
| 27 | May I hope , however , that some of your magazine 's future escorts might be of a slightly higher intellectual calibre ? |
| 28 | Those that were not , she supposed might be of animals now at rest under the wooden crosses in Maria Yackle 's back garden . |
| 29 | This might be of benefit in the construction of the meaning of the sentence , or it might be useful in helping to decide where to look next on the page . |
| 30 | The decentralized Evans model underestimates the amount of material which lies unused in departments for long periods of the year and which might be of value to another discipline , or to a pupil in the enquiry mode ; it certainly contains no element which would stress interdisciplinary thinking , inter.departmental cooperation or the sharing of acquisitions and experience . |