Example sentences of "that it might [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want to answer it , thinking that it might be Vasco again , but he could n't afford not to . |
| 2 | They thought that it might be leukaemia . |
| 3 | Let me straight away , er , that it might be folly of me to assume that er , you know a great deal about I B M. By the way I B M stands for International Business Machines , not as , some people used to think , International Ballistic Missiles . |
| 4 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 5 | I thought about letting it ring , but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally . |
| 6 | There was a feeling in the air that it might be time for a change . |
| 7 | After the damaging Westland affair and the loss of two senior Cabinet ministers , there were even Conservatives who thought that it might be time to change the leader . |
| 8 | THE gentlemanly art of boxing has clouted so many expressions into common usage that it might be time to ‘ throw in the towel ’ . |
| 9 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 10 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 11 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |