Example sentences of "[conj] it might [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This takes a look at where the game has been in the Eighties and where it might be going in future . |
| 2 | His uncertainty over what he had and where it might be seemed to indicate that he only drank when he entertained , and that he did n't entertain very often . |
| 3 | Or it might be taking somebody to hospital . |
| 4 | doing clerical work or it might be using erm surveying instruments now |
| 5 | Your query may be referred to a specialist SCOTVEC officer or it might be suggested that an external verifier should visit you . |
| 6 | That assessment might also be wrong ( clue to a later article : junk-bond default rates ) or it might be distorted by some other influence ( clue : federal deposit insurance ) . |
| 7 | Often there is insufficient management talent on board to achieve this objective , or it might be stretching the existing team too much so that their existing businesses may suffer . |
| 8 | As an example , it might be claimed that in ‘ hutch ’ was different ( perhaps in having shorter duration ) from in ‘ hush ’ or ‘ Welsh ’ , ; or it might be claimed that the place of articulation of in ‘ watch apes ’ is different from that of in ‘ what shapes ’ . |
| 9 | He 's written you a poem in which you might well think he was describing a fox outside his window but just at the point when the fox seems most real , it might be coming through the window or it might be going into its hole , he says that the hole that this fox lives in is his head . |
| 10 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 11 | Although it might be argued that this difference is due to the nature of the complexed metal ion ( iron in the cleavage reaction , cobalt in the footprint ) an alternative explanation is that bleomycin does not bind tightly to ( AT ) n sequences , and that these are efficiently cleaved during a transient interaction . |
| 12 | Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness . |
| 13 | Although it might be construed in England as a joint papal and royal dissolution of a religious order and its houses , the statute of 1324 in waiving the king 's rights over the forfeited property omitted all mention of a papal grant to the Hospitallers and thus left on the statute book an impression of autonomous royal action . |
| 14 | Of equal importance , perhaps , was the assumption that France would , as a matter of course , recover Indochina and , although it might be described as ‘ free ’ , the status of Indochina or Vietnam or , as it happened , part of Vietnam , would , as the French saw it , be determined by its membership of the French Union . |
| 15 | Although it might be thought that it would be difficult to capture the phenomenon of union growth across a number of countries on the basis of a single behavioural equation of this kind without making allowances for additional socio-political factors , or resorting to ad hoc explanations for individual countries , in fact the model performs surprisingly well . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it had broken the thread by which the country had been tied to France and although it might be claimed that , as in Burma during the war or in Indonesia at the end of the war , it was a spurious independence and part of Japanese mischief making , nevertheless Vietnam was now in a formal sense independent if not exactly free . |
| 17 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 18 | In animals , X would have to be genetically specified , although it might be specified merely as being different , in any way , from other members of the species . |
| 19 | There were no significant differences in the present study between the never and the previously married although it might be expected that people with children might be less likely to go into a home than those without any and the widowed , divorced , or separated are much more likely to have children than the single : 75 per cent compared with 6 per cent . |
| 20 | Although it might be expected that only the better-educated and wealthier sections of the community would watch television , the existence of the extended family system meant that the television sets owned by prosperous Zambians were also watched by a number of relatives who were less well off . |
| 21 | The idea that it might be channelled in worthier directions , the development of team spirit and the inculcation of self-discipline , was already being ventilated . |
| 22 | With ponds dug on the line , or streams banked up into ‘ flashes ’ to form reflecting points on the beacon track so that it might be checked when at least once a year the beacon was fired on the traditional day . |
| 23 | Daniel felt that she was willing Peter to respond , to show himself bruised and in need of comforting , to expose his wound so that it might be healed . |
| 24 | For example , the stockbroker AJ Bekhor refuted any suggestion that it might be merging with Harvard Securities . |
| 25 | During 1991 , the Employment Department carried out a detailed evaluation of the work undertaken to date and suggested ways that it might be developed after the current round has been completed . |
| 26 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 27 | Equally , it would be no defence to the charge of insulting behaviour founded upon , for example , handing out leaflets seeking to persuade soldiers to desert that it was not the leafleter 's intention to insult , so long as the leaflet was in fact insulting , and the person distributing it was at least aware that it might be regarded as insulting by the person to whom it was addressed . |
| 28 | According to Rose , members of the Department of Agriculture 's Commodity Credit Corporation ( CCC ) had known of this , and had written memoranda expressing worries that it might be discovered . |
| 29 | It is only because B yields to A 's threat that it might be broken that C suffers damage at all . |
| 30 | The swan-white robes were not the possessions of single families but of the community , and every mother whose infant wore a robe made and sewed a tiny bow to the back of the garment , so that it might be recorded how many infants had been christened in it . |