Example sentences of "might be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the ‘ bogeyman ’ used by mother to frighten her recalcitrant children into better behaviour , syphilis or ‘ the pox ’ is used by scaremongering educators to put the fear of God into those people they think might be at risk of catching VD . |
| 2 | It is left as an exercise for the reader to think of other mechanisms which might be at work . |
| 3 | Even the rare successful defence might be at a price . |
| 4 | We were sent out in pairs after 6 pm in the evening when all the paterfamilias who were left might be at home , to make a thorough census of the district and ask who might be in a house , when , and what were the provisions for even more serious raiding . |
| 5 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 6 | This might be at the local golf club , the WI , the church , the Ratepayers Association , trade union , bird-watching club and so on . |
| 7 | Twice a week it might be at the moment . |
| 8 | Vain they might be at times , dangerous , vicious even , when the devil was in them . |
| 9 | Landlord might be at risk financially , the subtenancy proposed being at a premium and a low rent . |
| 10 | Those that have seemed to indicate that ESP might be at work have generally later been discredited : either the subject of the experiment has been proven to be a charlatan or the experimental procedure itself has been shown to be flawed . |
| 11 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 12 | The aim is to ensure that no patient is sent home to a situation where he might be at risk . |
| 13 | Where after they 've been born , they might have had delayed breathing , not breathed immediately , so that type of baby might be at risk . |
| 14 | Cold War tensions might be at an end but did the Soviets not retain a huge nuclear arsenal , and how quickly could Strategic Arms Reduction Talks ( START ) be expected to progress ? |
| 15 | Luz had its passeries or local treaties , signed with the corresponding valleys on the Spanish side of the mountains , which guaranteed that they would continue to trade with one another even at times when the nations they were nominally part of might be at war . |
| 16 | As she continued her searching look , trying to make out what might be at the far end , she became aware that she was gliding . |
| 17 | This tells us nothing about the degree of harmony in the village — everyone might be at each other 's throats — but it does indicate that within the village there is a reasonably close-knit social pattern , rather than a disparate group of individuals who happen , coincidentally , to live in the same locality . |
| 18 | He/she might be constrained by loyalty to ministers ; as a result , reputation and career might be at risk . |
| 19 | For the first eleven years following its introduction , ICA offered one of the most explicit examples of the assumption that married women are ( or should be ) economically inactive and financially dependent upon an earning husband — until 1986 they were excluded from the benefit on the grounds that ‘ they might be at home in any event ’ ( DHSS , 1974 , para. 60 ) . |
| 20 | The findings from this study , taken together with those of Gardner et al , suggest that the children of certain men who are monitored for exposure to external ionising radiation in the nuclear industry might be at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 21 | they they might be at risk . |
| 22 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
| 23 | There was the sensation of immense speed now ; he thought the skies were rushing past him , and there was a whirling , dizzying feeling , as if he might be at the centre of a maelstrom . |
| 24 | The peasant might be at the bottom of the pile , but he still had rights to own or work common land and thus the certainty of providing some food for the survival of himself and his family . |
| 25 | This choice might be at the level of choosing what to output to the process along a particular channel , or of choosing ( via an ALT with communication guards ) which channel to communicate on . |
| 26 | And how many folk might be at the the dances ? |
| 27 | Weenie and Co. might be at school then and he wanted a word with Sarah on her own . |
| 28 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 29 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
| 30 | So when the recent rains filled the gutters and left my back garden awash , I assumed an end to the ban might be at hand . |