Example sentences of "[noun sg] might be [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meetings therefore always took place at five-thirty in the evening , a time when a politician , a lawyer or a captain of industry might be expected to be able to get away from his office for an important private occasion . |
| 2 | Very ordinary people ( or at least ordinary men ) could afford to attend a performance of a Shakespeare play in the large Globe Theatre , and appear to have done so , and the same play might be requested to be performed at court . |
| 3 | This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be . |
| 4 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 5 | So is the cold war giant , at least in the sense that a mighty military machine with no visible threat to its well-being might be said to be dead . |
| 6 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 7 | Even when increased authenticity might be judged to be desirable on motivational grounds , one is faced with the problem that the process of learning depends on the recognition of underlying regularities , on the identification of salient and essential features from all the accidental complexities of actual behaviour . |
| 8 | The greatest effect of social mobility might be expected to be in the middle of the range , perhaps when fathers move from manual to non-manual jobs , for example . |
| 9 | This comfort assumes that the identities , which can be so effortlessly , even unconsciously , adopted in listening to a speech , are not in serious conflict : the categories of ‘ Conservative ’ , ‘ British ’ , ‘ right-thinking ’ all overlap and , in fact , without reflection might be assumed to be virtually synonymous . |
| 10 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 11 | Except in larger firms , unanimity might be thought to be desirable in the interests of preventing further splits in the firm , and even where a majority decision is available , a genuine attempt to achieve unanimity should always be made : save in any but the clearest case , exercise of the power by a permitted majority without consultation with the remaining partners would be regarded as being in bad faith . |
| 12 | Again the family member will argue that this is perfectly reasonable behaviour for any family : total commitment regardless of cost to self might be considered to be the moral basis of family life . |
| 13 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 14 | From a different perspective such repeated defects of urban policy might be expected to be overcome through local community involvement , yet again the three contributions here demonstrate a complexity which belies naive aspirations . |
| 15 | Class bias might be expected to be less in the US , where tertiary education is less restricted and social class is often claimed to be less important . |
| 16 | In short , he is all that a medieval paladin might be expected to be . |
| 17 | A subject might be considered to be defined by : |
| 18 | The dominating sadist might be thought to be compensating for a feeling of sexual or personal inadequacy . |
| 19 | An administrative receiver might be considered to be the agent of those who appointed him but this is not the case ; section 44 of the 1986 Act makes him the agent of the company . |
| 20 | They hoped for no benefit of internal interpretation or the construal of favourable terms ; rather , they hoped that a disposition in dubious form might be admitted to be a disposition of legal force , or that a disposition in an invalid will might not sink into the oblivion of intestacy . |
| 21 | Such an abnormality might be considered to be insufficient to explain the severity and chronicity of symptoms , however , involvement of widespread areas of the intestine including the colon have been described in cryptosporidiosis and the extent of the enteropathy may be an important factor in these cases . |
| 22 | On the other hand , its penalty structure might be thought to be preferable to that of New South Wales , for the maximum penalty for each category of offence is higher than in New South Wales and the ten-year maximum for simple sexual assault enables a heavier penalty to be imposed in serious cases which do not come within the higher categories . |
| 23 | One might interpret this in relation to stronger group orientation , as expected of those who are field-dependent , nevertheless the task might be expected to be easier for those who are more used to visual processing . |