Example sentences of "[noun] might be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live in a world of echoes , and probably their brains can use echoes to do something akin to " seeing " images , although it is next to impossible for us to " visualize " what those images might be like . |
| 2 | The optimists tried to suggest that Garner and Holding might be on the wane ; the realists knew better . |
| 3 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 4 | An alternative might be to just to ask whether some of our membership forms could be put out so that |
| 5 | Accountants could play a key part in analysing the joint situation of the two firms in order to propose areas in the ‘ partner organization ’ where value-chain reconfigurations might be of benefit to both firms . |
| 6 | Similarly , holiday route guides or DIY maintenance might be of interest to motoring magazines , with car or accessory manufacturers as sponsors . |
| 7 | I thought this photograph might be of interest to you . |
| 8 | It began to look as if a wee riot might be in order . |
| 9 | The findings from this study , taken together with those of Gardner et al , suggest that the children of certain men who are monitored for exposure to external ionising radiation in the nuclear industry might be at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 10 | Maureen , who was now the manageress of the wool shop , had warned them that wool might be in short supply so they had all bought plenty of every colour , including a lot of khaki . |
| 11 | For instance , the users and data might be at different sites , support in their use and access could be provided from a additional site , and the extracted data processed at a further one . |
| 12 | So a typical card might be like this . |
| 13 | We have a duty to be as clear as we can , and to articulate at all times what we are trying to do , in at least a general sense , and it will help us to ask ( even if we can not always easily answer ) what the result might be in terms of student ability or behaviour . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's when I thought a little research might be in order . |
| 15 | Labour might be in the extraordinary position of winning a general election with its Leader outside Parliament . |
| 16 | It would have been a distressing upheaval indeed — I think Elizabeth found ‘ Braemar ’ so depressing that she did not enter as deeply as I into Ivy 's sufferings ; she could not help hoping that a change might be for the better . |
| 17 | That change might be in place by the time Pakistan visit West Indies this winter . |
| 18 | So when the recent rains filled the gutters and left my back garden awash , I assumed an end to the ban might be at hand . |
| 19 | One way to cut down on cars in cities might be to be to make this form of travel much less convenient , by cutting the number of parking places available in cities , for the public and companies alike — hardly popular measures . |
| 20 | The Royal Society note on the seminar indicates that ‘ less fashionable ’ chemicals than nitrates might be worth attention . ’ |
| 21 | An appropriate response might be for four strong women to hold him down while a fifth administers a local anaesthetic and removes his balls . |
| 22 | Our Unix bigots initially thought these long-term investments might be among the first to go . |
| 23 | Whereas in one , an iron axehead may be a tool used for woodworking and cutting down trees , in another it may be a unit of value — a cow might be worth two axeheads , for example . |
| 24 | It was a discernible unity , embedded though that unity might be in the economic order of the rest of the world . |
| 25 | Even the rare successful defence might be at a price . |
| 26 | Whatever our personal reactions might be to a production , that is the only real test . |
| 27 | The passage for instance might be in the nature of one of the following : |
| 28 | From what was said in Chapter 4 , the reader will appreciate that there could be several hundred variates and , of course , in the case of a census , n might be of the order of millions . |
| 29 | More senior posts were employed as tools of patronage at a higher level , for they might be the object of the ambition of a substantial freeholder with his own political interest , whose support might be of value to the Administration directly . |
| 30 | Kessler and McLeod also found plausible evidence in three studies that the buffering effects of emotional support might be at least as important in circumstances of chronic strain as for people facing the acute stress of major events . |