Example sentences of "might [adv] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The devil on stage might just be the Devil . |
| 2 | The Profitboss , in developing his contacts , never forgets that the friendly Steven Cook he met at the conference last month might just be the head of purchasing for a major customer in two years ' time . |
| 3 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 4 | Gérard Depardieu might just be the exception that proves the rule . |
| 5 | Whether we actually sell it or not is irrelevant , it 's the fact that it might just be the hook to get inside someone 's house . |
| 6 | If you do n't support the sovereign right of , say , an Islamic regime to deny women their human rights , you too might just be the closet , Stamford Raffles-type of do-gooding western imperialist . |
| 7 | If people have been wavering about giving us information this might just be the thing to make them come forward |
| 8 | She might just be the key to what I 'm looking for … ’ |
| 9 | He had no evidence — nothing but an anonymous letter which might easily be the work of some anti-Semite . |
| 10 | The shell only needed to hit one of the skaters — though it did indeed need to strike a target and not be wasted , as might easily be the case when fired seemingly without aiming . |
| 11 | This person might easily be the perpetrator of the crime that led to that appalling interment . |
| 12 | If the fight goes the distance , there might hardly be the thickness of a stamp between them unless Chris ups his recent workrate . |
| 13 | The former has five gadroons , compared to the three in the Colchester example but , clearly , they might still be the work of the same mosaicist . |
| 14 | For instance , in the first example of ( 21 ) it might still be the mob outside the embassy , in the second , perhaps a queue for an exhibition . |
| 15 | Norman manages with , might more be the order of the day . |
| 16 | Power might be a position of authority but it might also be the expertise or the charisma of the leader . |
| 17 | It might also be the case , too , that if he timed the attack carefully he might be able to give the verb ‘ caught short ’ a transitive sense . |
| 18 | Can we discern contemporary patterns of shared accommodation between kin which might also be the result of such pressures ? |
| 19 | In this way the Association " might really be the means of exercising a not inconsiderable leverage on educational performance and educational arrangements . " |
| 20 | It might now be the case that the best guarantee of future oil supplies lies in the mutual economic interests that exist between Arab oil exporting economies and the industrial North . |
| 21 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 22 | If I was lucky , my father might tell me something and , if I was luckier still , it might even be the truth . |
| 23 | I knew that these might well be the sidh 's last days , and I knew as well that I must find the courage and the strength to send one of you away . ’ |
| 24 | This might well be the case but does not by itself establish a logical necessity for legislative omnicompetence for Parliament . |
| 25 | This might well be the case , but it still does not answer the question whether it can be said that there is no morality without religion . |
| 26 | Although this might well be the case , other explanations need to be considered . |
| 27 | The canapes were under tin-foil to be produced later , the Assistant Manager paced the floor decorating the Office with leaflets , as if by some quirk of fate this evening might well be the making of his career . |
| 28 | This might well be the word processor that puts WordStar right back on the map in the word processor stakes . |
| 29 | I was certain , although I could not have said why , that if I did not answer correctly this might well be the end . |
| 30 | They looked , from a distance , as if they might well be the remains of her first attempt at Islamic dress . |