Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 At the same time , the parents were asked about family smoking habits and any other way in which the baby might be exposed to passive smoking .
2 So , in seeing the transvestite boy , the male member of the audience might be moved to lascivious thoughts about women , which then transfer to the boy himself .
3 The sceptics did not deny that by means of what was traditionally called an ‘ empirical ’ sign we might be led to indirect knowledge of something temporarily hidden : smoke from over the building is a sign that there is a fire behind .
4 The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based .
5 Subdivisions that might be applied to certain types of headings ( such as places , literatures , and so on ) are shown under key headings in the main list .
6 The research investigates the concepts of peacekeeping and peace enforcement as they might be applied to United Nations maritime operations .
7 Different interpretations might be applied to different organizations , but the basic information needs are the same .
8 It is nevertheless worth examining some more recent theories to see if they can suggest ways in which the implications of Brooke-Rose 's approach might be applied to novelistic texts .
9 If not , consider how it might be adjusted to different categories of student while preserving its efficacy as a means of encouraging orientation within a discourse .
10 From 1 April they will be able to set up contracts for community health services such as district nursing and chiropody , and possibly this might be extended to social aspects of community care .
11 Such openness might be extended to non-toxic waste .
12 This suggests another reason why memory might be related to subjective risk , simply because it is advantageous to the organism to have memory organized that way ( c.f. J. R. Anderson , 1990 ) .
13 It was immediately hypothesized that the relative degrees of focusing and diffuseness might be related to different degrees of social stability in the communities .
14 ( S. ) 71 , this called for a delicate balancing exercise between the possibility that the offender might commit further crimes in this country and the harm that might be done to innocent people if he were deported .
15 We reasoned that , as cytokines in vivo will be rapidly washed away , MIP-1 β might be bound to endothelial surfaces and so induce adhesion in its immobilized form .
16 Executive authority might be delegated to autonomous north-south agencies like the Foyle Fisheries Commission .
17 To imagine other worlds was to imagine that Christ might have died and been resurrected more than once , or that their inhabitants might be restored to eternal life without a knowledge of the Son of God .
18 Science and technology students might be introduced to social and economic problems , and arts students might ‘ gain an appreciation of science and technology in modern life ’ .
19 But the deleterious effect of the DD genotype might be restricted to certain vascular territories like the coronary circulation or might develop preferentially in atheromatous arteries .
20 I have drawn attention to the immense quantity , the rich variety , the problems posed by its retention , the difficulties with its analysis , and the opportunities that might be offered to future historians by contemporary electronic information resources .
21 Alternatively , the volume of data can be restricted by selecting a specific archaeological period or group of periods — the study might be confined to prehistoric archaeology world-wide , for example .
22 He was , however , concerned that information obtained by the SFO might be disclosed to other authorities , and might be used by them for a prosecution ; this concern did not lead him to believe that it would be proper to order the disclosure of the transcript to the SFO without any conditions .
23 This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining .
24 What is important is the idea that the newest and most powerful media , namely ads , might be used to beneficial ends .
25 They might be used to big crowds in the Lenin Stadium , but it 'll nothing like they 'll get at Anfield . ’
26 Climate and economics need to be included because these factors may well determine features which at first sight might be attributed to ethnic or cultural factors .
27 Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) .
28 Again it should be emphasized that the incentives need not be based upon financial performance but might be linked to other proxies of effort ; productivity measures and the like .
29 Isolated examples have been found as far afield as ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley , another illustration of the extent to which the most precious substances might be distributed to different polities by way of prestige networks .
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