Example sentences of "[ex0] might [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The markedly lower probability that children of higher birth order than of intermediate parity will survive early childhood obliterates any gain that there might otherwise be from bearing many children to ensure survival of a moderate number ; sustained childbearing at high parities is itself a cause of infant and early childhood as well as maternal morbidity and mortality . |
| 2 | There might just be benefits |
| 3 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ said Dexter , through a mouthful of chicken tikka masalla , one of the few Indian dishes he could stomach , ‘ there might just be something to this drugs thing . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 5 | But with Blackburn flying high , there might just be one big surprise left for Moran in the twilight of his career . |
| 6 | Parents in my constituency are anxious that teachers should be properly remunerated because teachers with low morale are bad teachers , and they are particularly concerned that there might just be a slight possibility of a Labour Government next year , with a resultant cut in teachers ' real pay , as happened when Labour was last in office . |
| 7 | There might even be a case for a standardised calculator to be used in all A , AS and GCSE examinations nationally . |
| 8 | There might even be , one day , warm water ports in the Arctic . |
| 9 | There is plenty of choice , starting with TSB in the high street , and there might even be NatWest . |
| 10 | Some villas had several rooms set aside just for sleeping in , and in the larger houses there might even be spare rooms for guests . |
| 11 | There might even be an election next year . |
| 12 | There might even be other nomes living in Stores ! |
| 13 | The only snag is : ‘ Nobody asked if the families wanted to do it , or even could : nobody seriously studied the extent to which there might even be a family ’ ( Whitehorn , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Finally , the sweet exchange of personnel from , agency to corporation ( and vice versa ) and the extent to which some agency officials are amenable to getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre again make the executive suite a relatively safe place for planning illegal behaviour — there might even be some people present who are supposed to be enforcing the law ! |
| 15 | In an extreme case such as Algeria , there might even be an almost complete formal assimilation of administration and government to the metropolitan structure . |
| 16 | There might even be some positive correlations between these two sets of variables . |
| 17 | There might even be a piano in the working-class parlour hinting at ‘ affluence ’ , and the bicycle boom of the 1890s enlarged the mobility of many people — as did the new transport system of the tram . |
| 18 | So I mean there might even be you know might even you might even |
| 19 | The applicants in the main proceedings stated in that connection that there were ‘ traditional communities ’ of fishermen resident in the United Kingdom which there might arguably be a case for protecting by a requirement relating to the residence of the crew or ‘ operators ’ of fishing vessels . |
| 20 | Only time passed , and 150 years later men began to suspect there might not be any Christian slaves left , because the Midlands solicitor charged with administering the estate seemed an extremely rich man . |
| 21 | At first it seemed that the only delay was in making the cottage fit to occupy , and Coleridge wondered whether , until it was ready , there might not be some rooms to spare at Shurton Court . |
| 22 | Then she decided that there might not be enough food so she went out to buy potatoes to put in the oven to bake an hour before the guests were due , She was lonely . |
| 23 | ‘ One day there might not be , What then ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The players here are leaking a few goals and losing faith in themselves but there might not be a lot wrong . |
| 25 | ‘ If I lose concentration , there might not be a Ship for anyone , ’ it said . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean there might not be room in my head for all those brains so something has to push out ? ’ |
| 27 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |
| 28 | There might not be space for two , and I could hardly turn the other man out now . |
| 29 | There might not be money for Frederick Bissett 's salary or funds enough to supply him with badly needed back-up , but by God , oh yes , there was money for the building programme . |
| 30 | We may then want to ask whether there might not be something about the cult that reduces the likelihood of its members killing themselves . |