Example sentences of "might soon be " in BNC.

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1 Dr Tim Higenbottam , a chest consultant at Papworth hospital , Cambridge , said yesterday it might soon be possible to transplant heart , kidney , liver , and lungs from one animal species to another .
2 By then , warnings were already blowing in the post-imperial winds of change that the all-regular Army might soon be overstretched trying to maintain stability in the final stages of Britain 's withdrawal from Empire .
3 The anniversary of King George 's coronation , on 11 October , provided the occasion for great patriotic demonstrations , with at Newcastle , which might soon be in the front line , ‘ bonfires in several parts of the streets and beer given to the common people ’ .
4 ( For a more direct line , UK country fans might soon be able to fly non-stop from Stansted to Nashville , if a Tennessee congressman has his way . )
5 A gas which is usually found in car exhaust fumes might soon be used to cure a certain type of male impotence .
6 So far so good , it seems ; but what with brother William Titford and his son William , there was every chance that individuals with the same name might soon be confused with each other , leaving a whole host of Williams , Wills and Bills to confound the assembled company at every family gathering .
7 Ipswich people might soon be able to get their library books from the supermarket .
8 Unless , of course , his next movie — in which Ms Hyams has a 12-second role , but it is early days and this might soon be substantially reduced — is above average .
9 Thornton was n't quite good enough to take his title , but Eubank might soon be so tired that someone , somewhere , will catch up with him .
10 But the game 's top men are hoping they can devise a constructive plan for improvement so that the awfulness of the past few seasons might soon be no more than a bad dream .
11 I had no way of telling what time it was , but surely it might soon be possible for me to escape from my desert island and make my way back to the cottage and a warm bed .
12 This means , for example , that some of the Russian Avant-garde might soon be on the international art market .
13 Others look at China 's economic renaissance and quake with fear , about wages one-tenth of those in industrial countries , and about political ambitions that it might soon be able to afford .
14 Lewis reached his third Test fifty before edging a flowery drive , and Salisbury recovered from an excruciating blow on the box from Waqar to bang him through the covers and generally give the impression that he might soon be worth a sport higher than No. 9 in the order .
15 I was on my last of eight trips to the Soviet Union , and I had a growing suspicion that this take-off might soon be my last in more senses than one .
16 This cannon , too , had been fired a great deal and although its muzzle had shown no distortion Harry had an uneasy feeling that it might soon be about to burst .
17 On the same day , however , Macmillan received an indication from London that the United States opposition to Tito 's demands was hardening , and that a firmer US policy might soon be announced .
18 If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted .
19 Somewhere in the severe dance of this roiling sleep I can sense the beginnings of a profound rearrangement , as if everything bad might soon be good , as if everything wrong might soon be right .
20 Somewhere in the severe dance of this roiling sleep I can sense the beginnings of a profound rearrangement , as if everything bad might soon be good , as if everything wrong might soon be right .
21 Walsh 's concern for the future of civil liberties is undoubtedly well-founded , but his prediction that the experience of Belfast or Derry might soon be shared by other British inner-city areas may be unduly pessimistic .
22 It was hard to adjust to a normal life ; to no longer fearing that the door would suddenly be opened and somebody would come to take us away ; to the thought that there might soon be more food ; and that we might be able to travel further afield than Parma or even Trieste .
23 It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles .
24 I do n't know if you 're alluding to the fact that pension rights might might soon be eroded in this country .
25 It was a routine call on the bereaved Mrs Place who had lost her father and who might soon be a widow , who had perhaps shed a few tears , but not very many .
26 App says that the next well where the test might soon be applied could be Cusiana-2A , but that decision will be taken as this issue goes to print .
27 But more important than that , the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour .
28 Alliss himself brought the match to an abrupt end holing from 10 feet at the last in a manner which suggested that he might soon be trading in the personalised number plates on his car ( PUT 3 ) .
29 She had n't been as long in this job as her last one , yet she knew there was a positive danger that she might soon be scouring the situations vacant columns again .
30 Companies with substantial interests in Hong Kong enjoyed modest rises after reports that a breakthrough on political reform for the colony might soon be reached with China .
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