Example sentences of "[det] might [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this view , what some might judge to be ‘ poor ’ teaching quality often results from reasoned and reasonable responses to occupational demands — from interpretive presences , not cognitive absences , from strategic strength , not personal weakness . |
| 2 | The adoption of the contextual approach to word-meaning outlined in this chapter has certain inescapable consequences that some might consider to be disadvantages . |
| 3 | Some might need to be tossed out ; indeed it was these younger fry who mostly glared at one another . |
| 4 | One member of the group might seek participation and greater responsibility , whereas another might want to be told what to do . |
| 5 | This might appear to be the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the colony , but all the bees in the colony are genetically related . |
| 6 | This might appear to be a criticism of the school in how it undertook its appraisal , but one must question whether it was really in the school 's interests to produce an evaluation in which its weaknesses were openly admitted . |
| 7 | This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin , but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another , and to Don Quixote , in the ludicrous materialities of preparation , and in their juxtaposing of very particular odds and ends with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness . |
| 8 | At first glance this might seem to be a more straightforward operation than gathering membership statistics — after all , attenders are visible on church premises and therefore easily counted . |
| 9 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 10 | That might seem to be precisely the sort of querulous argument which the Left has familiarly been scorned for posing . |
| 11 | The accuracy of the figures , give or take the one poll in 20 that might prove to be a ‘ rogue ’ , was now , it seemed , beyond dispute . |
| 12 | The idea that politics as such might have to be defended against democracy , as some contemporary writers have suggested , would have been incomprehensible to the classical Athenians . |
| 13 | For very heavy sailors , however , these might prove to be the most suitable straps as putting the weight further back might sink the tail of the board . |
| 14 | Although , in years to come , these might prove to be of social interest , many such letters refer only to domestic and personal trivia and , having personally recently discovered a letter written to me over 30 years ago by my wife just before we were married , I would not want this to be read by anyone else at all . |