Example sentences of "[noun] might [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the officers of these contrasting units might be held responsible for both the good and the bad behaviour , there is a touch of the ‘ kind ’ and the ‘ nasty ’ treatment often meted out to prisoners in the hope of gaining information . |
| 2 | An alternative might be to use separate subfields for different parts of the number . |
| 3 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 4 | The subdivision into groups or subsections is similar to that employed in supplement J for Psychiatric Rehabilitation One suggestion that was made was that " an adjoining pair of single bedrooms might be made inter-connecting to accommodate , for instance , a married couple . " |
| 5 | It was hoped , he said , that funds might be made available by the county council this autumn so that work could begin but county would need a detailed report . |
| 6 | In last week 's Tribune , Sawyer suggested that ballots of affiliated members in leadership contests might be made compulsory and that block votes could be split , although he expressed himself more cautiously than Gould intends to . |
| 7 | A second route might be to allow domestic producers to agree on predatory responses to attempts by foreign suppliers to enter the national market . |
| 8 | And though some knights might be supplied free by feudal service , household ones had to be maintained by their lords , mercenary ones needed pay , and those with money-fiefs constituted a regular charge on the treasury . |
| 9 | We would also be interested in purchasing some of the more sought after antiquarian guides and books where their value is such that a pure donation might be considered over-generous . |
| 10 | Local income taxes might be thought capable of performing better against the criterion of equity , but it was argued that they would be difficult to administer in the UK , for the reasons outlined by Kay and King ( 1986 ) . |
| 11 | The implicit sympathy for the killer given in the coverage of newspapers which are routinely advocating more severe sentencing strategies might be considered contradictory . |
| 12 | Arguments against allowing access included that people would not write frankly if they knew their comments would be seen , it could be important to record facts which could not be proved and suspicions or impressions , the child or parent might be made unhappy by a teacher 's judgement and it might impair the relationship or discourage the child , and access would lead to constant arguments about fairness or relevance of information . |
| 13 | GL suggested that one of his duties might be to provide secreterial support to Computer Users Group . |
| 14 | So small is this world , and so insignificant are its participants , that detailed attention might be considered unnecessary . |
| 15 | One group might be labelled exuberant , the next " the quiet ones " . |
| 16 | It was the first time Charlie had thought that 112 Whitechapel Road might be considered luxurious . |
| 17 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 18 | This was open to the criticism that it imposed constructive liability : a person who risked a minor assault might be held guilty of a more serious offence if ‘ actual bodily harm ’ happened to result . |
| 19 | The efforts of those like Gosse and Agassiz to make a definite theory out of the doctrine of Creation helped to show the value of an alternative approach ; evolution might be made scientific . |
| 20 | However , FAST noted that a possible future biotechnological development might be to use chemoautotrophic micro-organisms able to utilise mixtures of carbon dioxide and hydrogen ( which could be obtained from coal by reaction with steam ) to provide a wide range of organic compounds . |
| 21 | It was common for the storage building to be accompanied by a pair of kilns and a complete range of such structures might be erected adjacent to a very long storage building on a site where the cultivation of hops was undertaken intensively ( eg , at the hop farm of a brewery . ) |
| 22 | Will he discuss with his Cabinet colleagues whether the discretionary grants for vocational training for the professions might be made mandatory or whether the training and enterprise councils might provide money to help those with little means to train for entry into the professions ? |
| 23 | However , there was a sharp divergence of opinion on which firms might be made subject to this particular requirement . |
| 24 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 25 | So while a degree in geology or BTec in computer sciences might be deemed useful and relevant , a diploma in , say , Greek cookery would probably not qualify ! |
| 26 | Nor was I surprised that I often had to show the students how language use might be made meaningful . |
| 27 | He had bought Burleigh ( which he invariably called The Burleigh School , in capitals ) precisely so that his manner might be given free rein and ample pasturage . |
| 28 | In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all . |
| 29 | The poem might be thought self-pitying if it were more believable . |
| 30 | Commissions in an expanding army might be made available without purchase , either to support the interest of Administration politicians or to stimulate recruiting and sometimes both , but rarely could they serve an opposition politician directly , although the fact that military commissions were not immediately under the control of the Government manager for Scotland permitted some indirect approaches by opposition members and their friends . |