Example sentences of "might [verb] be " in BNC.

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1 So if unemployment benefit is suspended and erm another circumstance which might arise is somebody expects to receive unemployment benefit and then finds that they 're not entitled to it .
2 As is well brought out in a recent paper , the views of Carnap 's which Quine opposed involved the claim that conventionally adopted analytic linguistic frameworks provided criteria of reality , which set up the standards according to which any question that might arise was settlable ( Ricketts 1982 ) .
3 In indicating content and method they spawn ‘ approved ’ material of all kinds which , if used , serves to protect the individual teacher from any criticism which might arise were he or she to follow a more tangential or personalised approach to meeting curriculum goals .
4 Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody .
5 He woke on top of her , she might 've been a beach , he might 've been abandoned there by waves .
6 He woke on top of her , she might 've been a beach , he might 've been abandoned there by waves .
7 The tourist might 've been cake .
8 He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something .
9 She might 've been calculating something .
10 In the past it might 've been written off as artwank .
11 The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ .
12 And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . "
13 What they might 've been up to .
14 And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out .
15 And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out .
16 If I 'd ever done anything — made anything of myself more than a third-rate free-lance — it might 've been different .
17 Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board .
18 In , in this one it might 've been slightly easier because everything was spelled out you had to do you had to do carpenting , you had to do electrical .
19 It might , it might 've been , you , but you did n't care where it was from , did you ?
20 And er , my expenditure might 've been erm oh I do n't know , something that I can do the sums on , five thousand three hundred .
21 I do n't know whether , whether it might 've been worthwhile just questioning a bit more about the the link because he was obviously very keen on it
22 I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party
23 We might 've been , might be pleasantly surprised with these .
24 so it might 've been Rob that went out with her , but I du n no .
25 Ask , just ask him , it might 've been him .
26 That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ?
27 A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it
28 Got the ball away when it might 've been a fourth Pisa corner .
29 possible , it might 've been a joke and she had managed to convince him unclear
30 Mm it might 've been .
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