Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reply might be that surely I am inferring that I see a sheep in the field from my knowledge of my own present sensory states . |
| 2 | Some estimates suggest that CFCs direct contribution to the greenhouse effect might be more or less offset by their indirect effect of countering it by depleting ozone . |
| 3 | But they light the lanterns henhouse might be about four or five o'clock and you maybe leave it in the henhouse maybe till nine or ten at night . |
| 4 | However , such talk might be so much stuff and nonsense . |
| 5 | The married priest might be more obvious to the archdeacon on his visitation or inspection and to the rural deans in charge of the groups of parishes ; the unmarried concubinist could well escape justice . |
| 6 | Edwin Sutherland 's famous pioneering work in 1940 produced evidence that white-collar crime might be substantially underestimated in official criminal statistics . |
| 7 | TANU had succeeded in coping with a nationalist political movement , but could it cope with the demands of people whose national political consciousness might be further aroused by messages coming from outside the party 's framework of control ? |
| 8 | The photograph might be only a dreamed photograph . |
| 9 | He sometimes fantasized about emigrating , starting again in Hollywood where his looks and talent might be better appreciated . |
| 10 | To carry out participant observation into the minutiae of police practice might be theoretically approved in any statement made for general consumption , but in the cold light of institutional reality it will most likely be thwarted or subverted even as it is being agreed . |
| 11 | See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners , I want to stick the two liners together to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden but the other pond might be about two foot deep , this one 's gon na go down |
| 12 | Debenhams probably , but the John Lewis 's were excellent , and some some of them were tin and I do wonder if you 're eating on your lap a tin tray might be rather cold but on the other hand , you let the heat from the plate through to your poor little legs . |
| 13 | The result might be very different if the injured person acted on the advice of a quack , or if , considering all the advice he had received no reasonable person would have taken the course he did . |
| 14 | It is not inconceivable that a dedicated Marxist might be more interested in the long-term plan for the collapse of capitalism than in the survival of the corporation with which he works . |
| 15 | One worry is that innovatory but high risk research might be disproportionately affected by increased competition in the peer review process , since conservative decisions are more likely to prevail when resources are scarce . |
| 16 | To classify all reckless killings as murder might be too broad , but the point remains that some reckless killings may be thought no less heinous than intentional killings . |
| 17 | There remains , however , considerable debate concerning how a rule might be precisely defined and how such a construct can be properly applied to the study of social behaviour . |
| 18 | But more recent data obtained from M. fascicularis , in which the foveal ganglion cells densities were estimated from sections and displaced amacrine cells were explicitly identified using immunocytochemistry , suggest that the peak density near the fovea might be somewhat higher , and the average density in the peripheral retina lower , than the earlier estimates of M. mulatta r 11,18 . |
| 19 | Setting up production facilities in a new target market will often be risky , even though labour might be much cheaper in the targeted country . |
| 20 | A decision now has to be made about whether this rearrangement is acceptable for the time being or whether some further rearrangement might be more satisfactory . |
| 21 | He also suggested that school governors with commercial or industrial experience might be particularly interested in introducing appraisal schemes . |
| 22 | Fortunately , death or personal injury resulting from the use of a computer is a rare occurrence , but other forms of loss or damage might be more common ; for example , in a business context where a computer may be used to assist with decision-making , there is a strong probability that a financial loss will be blamed on the computer . |
| 23 | Many of the materials used were brought by the Israelites from Egypt ( 11:2–3 ) and willingly given , so that God 's tent might be as worthy of him as they could make it . |
| 24 | The change might be entirely innocent , the hotel might be dreadful — though it was the smartest in Leningrad ; on the other hand it might confirm Anna 's suspicions about the casting couch . |
| 25 | In theory , new commercial catch quotas could be set at next year 's meeting in Tokyo under a " revised management procedure " ( RMP ) , although any such decision might be so hedged around with qualifications as to make it impossible to fulfil . |
| 26 | This is necessary in order to clarify certain observations that some authors have made about the precise aspects or forms of psychosis to which creativity might be especially connected . |
| 27 | This was , in a sense a natural extension of a broadening perspective on intellectual ability , enclosing the idea that psychological qualities such as creativity might be as much a personality trait as a cognitive characteristic . |
| 28 | The Weekend Guardian might be just another memory . |
| 29 | At age 11 , the SAT should be of greater length and complexity , and the pupil 's response might be mainly but not exclusively written . |
| 30 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |