Example sentences of "might [adv] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These theories have continued to exert an influence , because the very ideology and conceptual map of social work is so steeped in ideas and systems of thinking that might loosely be called psychodynamic . |
| 2 | This work might best be termed exploratory , possibly to be left in the hands of the most competent and confident scientists and technologists . |
| 3 | The defendant who had not " examined " , in the sense of personally inspected , the offending items might nonetheless be given reasonable cause to suspect obscenity by clandestine or unorthodox behaviour on the part of his supplier . |
| 4 | All the right bands came — Love Sculpture , the Nice , Family — and , he remembers , ‘ various acid-crazed hippies performed what might obliquely be termed experimental music ’ . |
| 5 | One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners . |
| 6 | The problem of meeting the probable needs and wishes of the wider constituency which might now be considered eligible for some sort of formal association with the University after obtaining a qualification therefore needs to be addressed . |
| 7 | Prayer for strength is appropriate at any stage of our lives and might well be made daily but that does not invalidate the usefulness of marking one day in our life when someone prays over us in public and asks that out of the treasures of his glory , God may grant you strength and power through his spirit in your inner being that through faith cast may dwell in your hearts in love . |
| 8 | Pupils giving estimates at the end of this range might well be considered sensible to give the height of a door as 5 feet and 10 feet respectively . |
| 9 | It was suggested that " traditional " congregations be afforded formal recognition in the constitution with the implication that smaller groupings might then be declared illegal if the government thought it necessary . |
| 10 | For those who love labels , then , modern British literature in that aspect might conveniently be called Aristophanic — provided , that is , it is well understood that its novelists and playwrights can not be assumed to have taken any attentive interest in ancient Greek comedy , and that coincidence is all it is . |
| 11 | The specialist teacher can help to explain and deal with such problems and increase the confidence of the pupil and the understanding of the regular teacher in unusual cases of anxiety that might otherwise be deemed trivial . |
| 12 | It might therefore be thought advantageous to limit the class of lexical units to these . |