Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one of them has enjoyed internal political loyalty and they have therefore lacked the strength or authority to transact formal negotiations in which controversial concessions might have to be made . |
| 2 | Biochemical and genetic influences might come to be better understood in dynamic balance or imbalance with each other , and with others — social , cultural , spiritual and cosmological . |
| 3 | When a waiter asked me , and the people I was eating with , sentence ( 2 ) in Task 2 , we understood him , even though , in textbook terms , his words might seem to be nonsense . |
| 4 | It might not be Ramsgate , but Broadstairs might prove to be quite enjoyable after all . |
| 5 | kids might have to be uprooted all over again because it 's too far from her |
| 6 | Ellwood was n't telling Carey how tight things were , or what methods might have to be used . |
| 7 | 40 On this basis , nitrates might have to be cut by more than 25 per cent to achieve a real reduction in leaching . |
| 8 | It said that while recovery in east Germany had begun , the east would remain dependent on the west 's financial aid for longer than expected , while taxes might have to be raised again . |
| 9 | Industry feared that even quite harmless products might have to be subjected to lengthy and costly hearings as a result . |
| 10 | The video depicts in graphic detail some of the most difficult sexual positions and even admits that experimenters might need to be double-jointed . |
| 11 | One task while this is going on is to observe how the groups are working , who is too dominant , who is too isolated , and what adjustments to the groups might have to be made . |
| 12 | Sex is a taboo subject for both young and old , and many of the restrictive and repressive attitudes might have to be overcome by both counsellor and counsellee . |
| 13 | ‘ Ulster Unionists ’ can be patronised as fractious tribesmen ; Northern Ireland Conservatives might expect to be treated as equals . |
| 14 | So these first results indicated that quantum mechanics is adequate even for those situations where nonlocal effects might seem to be necessary . |
| 15 | The secretary-general of the UN , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , announced this week that UN troops might have to be pulled out of Croatia unless relations between Croats and Serbs in UN-patrolled enclaves there improved and the world began to pay its peacekeeping bills . |
| 16 | Stooks would blow down and be set up to blow over again and wet heavy sheaves might have to be stoked over and over again . |
| 17 | It was recognised that several sources might have to be approached in order to obtain comprehensive data on this subject . |
| 18 | Corrections might have to be made if Single or Double Summertime ( Daylight Saving Time ) is in operation . |
| 19 | the less experienced teams might prefer to be placed early on in the programme as it can be unnerving to be left waiting ; |
| 20 | However bad things might prove to be decades hence , in 1984 , they could not be so bad that religious feeling would simply have died out ; and he promises to visit Orwell in his illness , which he did . |
| 21 | Maxwell still thinks he can run this himself , pay up and leave with his daughter rather than keep his money and have the case come to court so that his affairs might have to be examined — that could cost him more than the ransom . |
| 22 | ‘ All grist to our mill , ’ said McAllister cheerfully , never thinking that Mr Sands 's grand relations might prove to be Nemesis , arriving in group form , to smoke out Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , American heiress and the ambassador 's niece , the Marquess of Blaine 's one-time intended , AKA — also known as — in the language of American police reports — Miss Sally-Anne McAllister , skivvy and Dr Neil 's fiancée . |
| 23 | Certain objectives might have to be abandoned if others of even greater value and importance were to be attained . |
| 24 | Apart from the anxiety caused by such uncertainty and the distress concerned , difficult decisions might have to be made about how to proceed . |
| 25 | In some cases , for example the high profile job of a Press Officer or the technically demanding role of Planning Secretary , committee members might want to be sure they are filled by people with the right qualities . |
| 26 | For example , members might claim to be disadvantaged in an open hearing in putting forward a defence that could give rise to legal action for defamation or breach of confidence . |
| 27 | Demonstrations might prove to be a good way of teaching small groups of about five or six students the use of various tools used for information retrieval . |
| 28 | It is also conceivable that some constraints might have to be placed upon communications within computer networks . |
| 29 | On the face of it , the greatest guarantor of the reliability of the WTO armed forces might appear to be the 550 000–600 000 Soviet forces stationed on their national territories , the overwhelming majority of which ( 20 divisions ) are deployed in the GDR ( Group Soviet Forces Germany , HQ Zossen-Wunsdorf ) . |
| 30 | The realization that the US forces might have to be retained in the Gulf for the foreseeable future , or that , having defeated Iraq , the USA might be obliged to address other Middle Eastern issues — particularly the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory — had caused a small but vociferous revival of right-wing isolationism in the USA . |