Example sentences of "[noun sg] might be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | An alternative might be to just to ask whether some of our membership forms could be put out so that |
| 3 | Similarly , holiday route guides or DIY maintenance might be of interest to motoring magazines , with car or accessory manufacturers as sponsors . |
| 4 | I thought this photograph might be of interest to you . |
| 5 | It began to look as if a wee riot might be in order . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So a typical card might be like this . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's when I thought a little research might be in order . |
| 11 | Labour might be in the extraordinary position of winning a general election with its Leader outside Parliament . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That change might be in place by the time Pakistan visit West Indies this winter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | An appropriate response might be for four strong women to hold him down while a fifth administers a local anaesthetic and removes his balls . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a discernible unity , embedded though that unity might be in the economic order of the rest of the world . |
| 18 | Even the rare successful defence might be at a price . |
| 19 | The passage for instance might be in the nature of one of the following : |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I hope the discussion has this value : it addresses the question of intervention to further social objectives within the system of commodity-producing enterprises and , rather than positing nationalisation as panacea ( a theme with a pronounced minority appeal ) , it identifies certain cases in which nationalisation could be argued as necessary to further social objectives as well as cases in which nationalisation might be of no obvious advantage . |
| 23 | Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation . |
| 24 | We have suggested that properly coordinated motility might be of crucial importance in promoting acid clearance , and could therefore be an unrecognised factor in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulceration . |
| 25 | One dimension might be in this time , as we have seen , the mother might reach a stage where , she , it 's in her productive self interest to start another offspring , and she may want to wean the existing one , so she can do that . |
| 26 | The case established that there can be more than one occupier of the same premises , although the duty required of each might be different : e.g. a seaside promenade might be under the control of a local authority and the water authority as part of the sea defences . |
| 27 | To those who read with scepticism in the Guidance notes on the Code of Professional Conduct that there may be occasions when the Association would act where the law might be in conflict with professional ethics this is encouraging . |
| 28 | Observing that Tschudi can be shown to have made keyboards with ‘ skunktail ’ sharps ( quite exceptionally on the 1766 instruments for Frederick the Great ) , Dale rashly conjectures that the instrument seen in the Mercier portrait might be by Tschudi even though it bears no resemblance to the 1729 harpsichord or anything that subsequently emerged from the Meard Street or Great Pultney Street workshops . |
| 29 | Other points you will need to consider include : what type of investment policy would suit you ; what size contributions ( within Inland Revenue allowed limits ) you could realistically afford ; and what , after deduction of administrative and other charges , your plan might be worth when you come to retire . |
| 30 | Her work might be in Detroit but her home , her life and her boyfriend Chris are rooted firmly in Chicago . |