Example sentences of "might be [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The travel pattern might be influenced by such factors as convenience , minimizing travel time and the nature of the business ( for example , the businessman might wish to visit suppliers , manufacturers and retail outlets , in that order ) . |
| 2 | He insisted that this was a voice with characteristic qualities which might be exploited to some purpose on the air . |
| 3 | However , we are equally conscious that some colleges may find the pace of development too slow for their needs and are concerned to explore ways in which some of the aims of the Programme might be accelerated for those colleges which wish to develop their provision rapidly . |
| 4 | Also , when Chas behaves in what might be regarded in this book as a ‘ non traditional way ’ , for example , in aiming to look after Nicky whose family has been killed , his endeavours in this regard are also portrayed positively . |
| 5 | Since it is possible that more than one defence might be raised in each case , sometimes in combination with a defence of lack of intent , a system of criminal law which offers seven qualified defences to murder risks undue complication and confusion in contested cases . |
| 6 | But there are two further objections that might be raised against this theory : one of them concerns compresence , the other completeness . |
| 7 | Empirically based hypotheses were subject to revision ; for , as he put it himself , the facts might be explained in another way as yet unknown to men . |
| 8 | It is assumed that social values , which are also placed on a single linear dimension , might be assigned to each variant . |
| 9 | In 1966 the applicant was appointed as a lecturer to the university by a letter stating , inter alia , that his appointment might be terminated by either party giving three months ' notice in writing . |
| 10 | Letters , photographs with captions and telephone calls reporting news or events that might be featured in this University newspaper are all welcome and should be addresses to . |
| 11 | For example strategically placed peat mounds might be created on either side of the path . |
| 12 | To see what insights might be gained from such juxtapositions , go to Castelli before 13 March . |
| 13 | Occasionally other ministers might be called into those discussions . |
| 14 | And we were rather thinking that might be looking for another job very soon . |
| 15 | In response to the SNH access paper , he adds : ‘ While this might be opposed by some landowners and managers , it nevertheless offers an opportunity , as yet untried , for SNH and government to work out an acceptable scheme for appropriate legislation and test it publicly . ’ |
| 16 | They pointed out that adders might be endangered in some parts of the country but they are thriving north of the border . |
| 17 | The hope is that an outpatient procedure under local anaesthaesia might be achieved with this procedure , with preservaton of the gall bladder . |
| 18 | They do , it is true , have to lower their affective filter to allow the input to flow in , but this might be achieved in all manner of ways . |
| 19 | What horoscopy or even psychic sorcery in extremis might be enacted in this crypt ? |
| 20 | Here was a face , buried in its cloud of hair , which looked more like a mask than a living thing , a mask such as might be worn on All Souls ' Eve to scare the children , all thickly white with painted black sockets for eyes and a mouth so crudely gashed it was but a slit . |
| 21 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 22 | The sing-song voice took all overt menace away , yet there was still a suggestion that collars might be felt at any minute . |
| 23 | Similar pressures might be felt by some people today — to fight , or to risk injury in certain situations , and so on . |
| 24 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 25 | Those with such an awakened spirit might be blessed in this life with divine dreams and revelations . |
| 26 | Patients with ‘ non-ulcer dyspepsia ’ who seem refractory to all treatments might be assessed in this way to ensure they do not have a gross disorder of gastric emptying , but the likelihood that the result will advance clinical management seems small . |
| 27 | What gives a name as a name its special status is that it represents the transcendence " of the object relative to any particular description that might be given of that object . |
| 28 | Inquisitorial methods , for example , might be justified on those grounds . |
| 29 | If the force consisted of personnel from WEU member countries , it was argued , then it might be deployed under that organization 's auspices in pursuit of agreed objectives . |
| 30 | Tanberg had already realised that vast amounts of energy might be extracted from this process . |