Example sentences of "a [noun] might be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation . |
| 2 | Whereas in one , an iron axehead may be a tool used for woodworking and cutting down trees , in another it may be a unit of value — a cow might be worth two axeheads , for example . |
| 3 | It would have been a distressing upheaval indeed — I think Elizabeth found ‘ Braemar ’ so depressing that she did not enter as deeply as I into Ivy 's sufferings ; she could not help hoping that a change might be for the better . |
| 4 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 5 | At any given age a child might be on quite different levels for difference subjects . |
| 6 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 7 | Moreover , the batches form a characteristic wedge shape : batches with lower medians have lower midspreads , and those with higher medians have higher midspreads ; this is always a tell-tale sign that a transformation might be in order . |
| 8 | Still , if there were villages in Ireland these days where a man might be in danger of meeting the same ill-fortune face to face , Owen feared he was getting near them . |
| 9 | The anti-recording position assumes that a sound recording is literally a record of a live event , a memento of it , as a snapshot might be of a holiday or a family event . |
| 10 | ( The Double Helix , by James Watson , which tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA , is perhaps an example of what such a book might be like . ) |
| 11 | An alternative might be to just to ask whether some of our membership forms could be put out so that |