Example sentences of "they might be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 2 | They might be hidden behind their curtain of trees , but she felt oppressed by their proximity just the same , as if they were standing guard over her . |
| 3 | In that sense they might be seen to be moving in a different direction from the strongly centralist initiatives in connection with the national curriculum . |
| 4 | In this book we will be looking at the level at which facilities are provided in electronic hardware , as they might be seen by a system programmer about to implement the most basic software on the computer . |
| 5 | Constance followed close behind , clutching at his shirt in her terror that they might be separated in the crush . |
| 6 | He had been hoping they might be filled with something a little stronger than tobacco … having heard stories about Scandinavian teenagers … but was disappointed when they turned out to be regular cigarettes . |
| 7 | No other ship could stand up to their guns , but some sailors thought they might be defeated by the new weapon of the torpedo . |
| 8 | As regards attitudes , there is the assumption that attitudinal positions , and thereby attitudinal structures , can not be fully developed , for , although they might be developed for given argumentative contexts , they must also look forward to contexts as yet unrealized . |
| 9 | Although they might be observed by gamma-ray detectors on satellites or balloons , it would be difficult to fly a detector large enough to have a reasonable chance of intercepting a significant number of gamma-ray photons from one explosion . |
| 10 | The individual being insufficient for the expression of these values , they might be extended in vicarious forms such as footservants who had nothing to do but to display their own superfluity , or pets , which provided surfaces for the further display of luxury . |
| 11 | It was not intended to show how they might be integrated in practice . |
| 12 | They might be faced with tribal , linguistic or religious divisions , which provide bases for alternative centres of power ; their country might be poor or rich in natural resources ; its geo-political situation vis-a-vis other nations favourable or unfavourable ; the differences between classes , and the intensity of class conflict , more or less substantial . |
| 13 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 14 | The research investigates the concepts of peacekeeping and peace enforcement as they might be applied to United Nations maritime operations . |
| 15 | The pleasure of experiencing literature that " joyous thing " were intended to elevate the student into an affective domain where they might be imbued with a higher moral tone . |
| 16 | Yet all their study should have been directed to this end , so that they might be consumed with the love of God as well . |
| 17 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 18 | The sort of transient contact with dog dirt you mention is really very common , and it 's never possible to protect children from all the infections they might be exposed to . |
| 19 | They might be printed in pairs or in patterns which repeat . |
| 20 | This is a splendid incentive for people to listen hard since they never know when they might be called upon to paraphrase what they have heard . |
| 21 | 92 per cent of students provided their names and addresses so that they might be contacted for a follow-up postal survey planned for Spring 1985 ( 571 students ) . |
| 22 | Three contenders for Mr Lamont 's job looked on clearly wondering what timebombs on tax they might be landed with in the years ahead . |
| 23 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 24 | While they might be regarded as disorders of sleep , and will be discussed in the chapters on sleep problems , they are so prevalent , so much a part of normal life , that , like sleepwalking , they deserve a place in any account of normal sleep and dreaming . |
| 25 | If positions and viewpoints are too easily set aside they might be regarded by other people as not having , even in the first place , amounted to much . |
| 26 | He saw the new drugs as a threat to his well-being , and lived in dread of the day when they might be prescribed for him . |
| 27 | Gesticulating wildly in a crowded space , so that others are frightened that they might be struck by the defendant , is not punishable unless it can be shown that the defendant was at least aware that his conduct might be having such an effect . |
| 28 | They might be re-appointed for a further term but , even then , anyone in his or her late 60s is unlikely to reign long . |
| 29 | They can involve further investigation of a problem or need identified in the placement year , or they might be related to staff research interests . |
| 30 | They might be eaten for supper with a ladleful of thick sourish cream poured over them . |