Example sentences of "might be some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research shows that there are currently 960 accounting systems on offer in the UK , and Headland thinks there might be some consolidation . |
| 2 | In such cases melatonin might be some sort of ‘ darkness indicator ’ and some have even called it an ‘ internal time-cue ’ . |
| 3 | That might be some guarantee of bigger , better , more varied and more daring programming . |
| 4 | No , the beautiful objects could not be called proof , but they were a suggestion — the merest indication — that there might be some sort of link between their present owner , the burial mound , and the foresters ' custom described at the farm by Alice . |
| 5 | Some brands of biscuits are made with wholemeal flour or oats and slightly less sugar , which might be some improvement on your usual brand . |
| 6 | Indeed , as the country 's stalwart burghers give lusty tongue to the national anthem , Apres des siecles d'esclavage — ‘ After centuries of slavery ’ — there might be some cynics who would be tempted to reflect that under the present system they are not an awful lot better off . |
| 7 | With the crowd being the most volatile in the Caribbean — rioting held up play for 25 minutes during the Test against India in 1989 -there might be some trouble but only if the West Indies are faring badly , rather than as a result of any anti-South African sentiment . |
| 8 | I hear that there might be some quite spectacular player migrations from that period , notably in the Midlands . |
| 9 | Mr Litmus says it might be some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 10 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 11 | I concluded that there might be some good after all in the Common Market . |
| 12 | What might be some of the possible triggers ? |
| 13 | After all it would have a great element of surprise in its favour and although there might be some shooting it was doubtful if the Germans would know what they were shooting at , especially if good diversions were laid on . |
| 14 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 15 | Such an expressed intention puts the book into the ‘ holistic ’ category and might alarm many scientists that what is to follow might be some kind of woolly metaphysical vagueness . |
| 16 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 17 | David Clark thought there might be some need for review while Adrian Bird felt that a blanket prohibition should only be a starting point which should be used in conjunction with local knowledge . |
| 18 | There might be some question now as to whether they will , but there is no question that they can if they want to . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've heard that it might be some test of our will near the end of my presidency , but those F-16s sent the message to him pretty clearly . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's true , and it might be some comfort to her , ’ John Foley said mildly . |
| 21 | A less obvious example might be some relationship between , say , size of shop and type of credit available through that shop . |
| 22 | Although they are naked in their latest pictures , the images are as oblique as ever , and George merely shrugs , ‘ If everybody else has to be , why not us ? ’ , when it 's suggested there might be some special significance involved . |
| 23 | ‘ It might be some sort of weather , ’ said Angalo . |
| 24 | An Astropath in the Librarium had messaged to Tezla 's own fortress-monastery on San Guisuga , a jungle world five thousand light years away , though it might be some years yet till that cousinly Chapter retrieved their Lieutenant . |
| 25 | There might be some news this morning since he usually goes up on Sunday-though this week he 's been twice … |
| 26 | Halzman half suggested it might be some sort of timing device . |
| 27 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 28 | Reflecting on the rarity of the sudden infant death syndrome in crowded Hong Kong in 1985 , Davies commented that ‘ there might be some benefit to such high-density living . |
| 29 | There might be some ceremony of welcome ; there might be special prayers for the ruling family ( the genealogies of the counts of Flanders at St Bertin and the counts of Anjou at St Aubin 's suggest this ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Hell ’ , indeed , might be some acoustically Stones-ian descent into a nightclub in Hades but it also could be the only relationship song where a harshly dissected third party pollutes Simon 's playpool . |