Example sentences of "[noun sg] might be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be the keystone of the defence as well , although the defendant might be prepared to accept the plaintiff 's evidence if it contains nothing controversial . |
| 2 | Perhaps I mean it 's , we do n't know in nineteen , October nineteen forty seven whether the Communist Party actually really did think that absolute egalitarianism might be able to work . |
| 3 | The aminosalicylate reduced the fever , but as salicylates are known to do this it was thought that the effect might be non-specific . |
| 4 | This effect might be welcome in the cities . |
| 5 | It is further suggested that funding for such a programme might be available through the European Community 's information technology programmes . |
| 6 | Snobbery might be innate in their parents ' way of life , but it could never be admitted . |
| 7 | Ltd v. Heller & Partners Ltd there was considerable debate as to how far monetary loss might be recoverable . |
| 8 | There remains one way in which the cost of equity might be low , albeit for a limited period . |
| 9 | ( Note that unc need not be a normal form program if P is , since the clauses in the IFs might be false or not all distinct . ) |
| 10 | Second , as already mentioned the debtor 's evidence is that he was never advised on whether legal aid might be available to him . |
| 11 | In such cases again regional policy aid might be important : the grants were sometimes significant subsidies to the updating of technology , for instance . |
| 12 | We must also avoid branch meetings seem like a gathering of old chums into which an outsider might be shy of intruding . |
| 13 | Thus yellow and roundness might be intrinsic properties of a yellow ball as being among the properties in virtue of the possession of which another ball might be exactly like it . |
| 14 | Likewise , the floating vote might be indicative of some electors making up their own minds on the issues of the day ; it might equally reflect pressure brought to bear " from above " , perhaps by those attached to the Court who wanted a change in the complexion of the House of Commons , to " persuade " those electors to change their allegiances . |
| 15 | A member of the group mentioned that an uncle of his , a retired coal miner , had been telling him about Highlander , and it was suggested that Highlander might be willing to help in some way . |
| 16 | Although the case is similar on the facts to Glasgow Corpn v Taylor , the approach on the statute might be different from the old common law approach . |
| 17 | This may lie in some very personal adjunct , in which case a psychologist might be able to throw some light on the matter . |
| 18 | However , a psychologist might be worried about an unusually subdued or docile child . |
| 19 | He fancied he could see a lower section at one end of the piled furniture where a horse might be able to jump the obstruction . |
| 20 | Alternatively the decrease might be due to a progressive increase in vortex pinning in the superfluid as the neutron star slows down and cools . |
| 21 | It looked as though at least some progress in that experiment might be able to be made soon . |
| 22 | Suspecting that her diarrhoea and wind might be due to Candida infection , she put her on an anti-Candida diet and a course of anti-fungal drugs . |
| 23 | He did say that he thought the future might be difficult for us . |
| 24 | The historian of the future might be able to reconstitute all the documents mentioning a particular subject in an automated PRO but the manner in which they inter-relate might take some time to unravel . |
| 25 | What pattern of output by industry might be compatible with the restoration of full employment ( in the range of , say , 3-5 per cent unemployed ) — and does this seem feasible ? |
| 26 | I ca n't say I blamed them , for though the Union Jack Club might be pretentious , Koraloona was n't . |
| 27 | The members of this club might be odd , but they were English : the notion of socialising at breakfast would be anathema . |
| 28 | It is feasible to provide adequate exposure to events which in practice might be rare but very serious . |
| 29 | But it is useful anyway to speculate about possible findings and so some possible explanations ; the characters who use irony might be similar in type to Austen herself ( in class , gender , age ) ; or they might be the characters who function as heroes and heroines in the novels . |
| 30 | Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem . |