Example sentences of "might [adv] [be] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 3 | She might just be the key to what I 'm looking for … ’ |
| 4 | He had no evidence — nothing but an anonymous letter which might easily be the work of some anti-Semite . |
| 5 | This person might easily be the perpetrator of the crime that led to that appalling interment . |
| 6 | If the fight goes the distance , there might hardly be the thickness of a stamp between them unless Chris ups his recent workrate . |
| 7 | The former has five gadroons , compared to the three in the Colchester example but , clearly , they might still be the work of the same mosaicist . |
| 8 | For instance , in the first example of ( 21 ) it might still be the mob outside the embassy , in the second , perhaps a queue for an exhibition . |
| 9 | Norman manages with , might more be the order of the day . |
| 10 | Can we discern contemporary patterns of shared accommodation between kin which might also be the result of such pressures ? |
| 11 | In this way the Association " might really be the means of exercising a not inconsiderable leverage on educational performance and educational arrangements . " |
| 12 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They looked , from a distance , as if they might well be the remains of her first attempt at Islamic dress . |
| 15 | ‘ If enforcement of the no-fly zone put the UN operation at risk , the main losers might well be the people of Bosnia . ’ |
| 16 | Only after the truce of 1686 with the Poles was it clear that she might well be the force of the future in eastern Europe . |
| 17 | That might well be the result at the end of the day when all issues are properly balanced . |
| 18 | And it might almost be the work of Graham McClintoch . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ Relegation was unfortunate , but it might yet be the making of the club depending on just how we respond . |
| 21 | 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 . |