Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lines on his brow might be etched a touch more deeply and there was the stray glint of silver among the thick dark hair at his temples , but Vitor d'Arcos remained … not handsome — his nose was too arrogant and his jaw too hard-hewn for that — but an arresting-looking man . |
| 2 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 3 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 4 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 5 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 6 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
| 7 | It proposed that the December meeting should be followed by regular meetings at various levels , including ministerial meetings in what it said " might be called a North Atlantic Co-operation Council " . |
| 8 | Yet here was express permission to do so ; what might be called a farter 's charter . |
| 9 | It might be called a polyamino acid , because the basic units are amino acids . |
| 10 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 11 | By setting his move in the Thirties , and by turning that ambiguously seductive decade into what might be called a laide époque , Visconti discovered a necessary , hitherto unremarked fact about movie nostalgia : that it functions best when directly linked either to the history of the cinema ( as in The Damned , Helmut Berger 's Dietrich impersonation ) or history in the cinema ( newsreel footage , for example ) . |
| 12 | The Court went on to say that , in the case before it , there was no need to decide whether and to what extent Article 6(1) required a decision on the very substance of the dispute — what might be called a right to a judgment . |
| 13 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 14 | The Cycling Council badly needs some income , and I suggest that we might be given a percentage of the revenue , say 20% , in addition to the initial £75 . |
| 15 | There survives a copy of a letter sent to a priest Ælf. , almost certainly Ælfwine , which says that none of the royal councils are hidden from him , and asks for his intercession with the queen so that the writer might be given a fishery . |
| 16 | It might be argued a contrario that the term " shop assistant , draper 's assistant etc. " which is recorded for some of the bridegrooms , suggests that " grocer does indeed refer to a shopkeeper . |
| 17 | The development of cholangitis as a late complication occurred only in patients in whom a sphincterotomy was not carried out and this might be considered a prerequisite in all patients in whom an endoprosthesis is inserted as long term therapy . |
| 18 | Within his framework , pollution , which might be considered a cost imposed on society but not paid for by the company creating the pollution , results from a deficient system of property rights . |
| 19 | But super super person we 've got , unfortunately she might be offered a job at prison to take their sewing on and then she ca n't do ours . |
| 20 | Georgia O'Keeffe ( sic ) , who exhibited very worthwhile things last year , shows a few good flower studies , notably a fine one of calla lilies , but the rest of her show might be termed a flop both in colour and design . |
| 21 | ‘ Half a century ago ’ , wrote Arthur Young in 1804 , ‘ Norfolk might be termed a rabbit and rye country . |
| 22 | Along with the grey Seafarer echo sounder , the Walker log is what , in the world of yacht instrumentation , might be termed a classic . |
| 23 | Or he might be handed a file and a tiny silver tool with which to clean her toenails while she dozed in a chair . |
| 24 | The argument might be taken a step further . |
| 25 | Only a person of non-servile status might be ordained a clerk or become a monk or nun . |
| 26 | Welfare , in the broader view of which this approach to child care might be deemed a part , is construed in individual terms : individuals are deemed responsible for their conduct , and little weight is given to structural , environmental and material determinants of behaviour . |