Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [adv] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canapes were under tin-foil to be produced later , the Assistant Manager paced the floor decorating the Office with leaflets , as if by some quirk of fate this evening might well be the making of his career . |
| 2 | This person might easily be the perpetrator of the crime that led to that appalling interment . |
| 3 | A sine qua non for language development might therefore be the emergence of ways of understanding the world which are amenable to expression in language . |
| 4 | The Profitboss , in developing his contacts , never forgets that the friendly Steven Cook he met at the conference last month might just be the head of purchasing for a major customer in two years ' time . |
| 5 | The most likely explanation is that these constipated patients are a heterogeneous group including patients without autonomic nervous system dysfunction , whose loss of peristaltic activity might instead be the result of intrinsic nerve damage or other motility disorder . |
| 6 | The devil on stage might just be the Devil . |