Example sentences of "might [be] referred to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be referred to as ‘ intensive information processing , ’ where data on upstream events are continually released downstream , and vice versa ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 2 | We are suggesting the establishment of what might be referred to in shorthand as " Ofbus " , along the lines of Oftel and Ofgas . |
| 3 | The section does not create what might be referred to as a permit requirement , since subject to what is said below , it does not empower the police to refuse permission to hold the procession , as is the law in certain other jurisdictions . |
| 4 | In practice , even the threat that a merger might be referred to the MMC was often sufficient to induce the companies to drop their merger proposals . |
| 5 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 6 | To capture the social aspects of deixis , we would need to add at least one further dimension , say of relative rank , in which the speaker is socially higher , lower or equal to the addressee and other persons that might be referred to . |