Example sentences of "might be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’ |
| 2 | I was genuinely concerned that Bev might be under some stress or pressure from the many attacks she was dealing with . |
| 3 | Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ? |
| 4 | Perhaps as a final word , I might be per better to echo the chief planning inspector Stephen who at this year 's T C P summer school , said , Neither statute or policy rule out the practical application of common sense in unusual or exceptional circumstances . |
| 5 | Attractive he might be to some people , but he was out of her league and anyway , she was n't interested . |
| 6 | So Janet , your question , which is not as I in , intimated it might be at all , so you , you can be well annoyed , erm , if you 're setting up a , a joint life policy with waiver premium on both people , and the wife is fifty one , and the husband is forty , how much will be deducted from their units according to waiver of premiums ? |
| 7 | This tells us nothing about the degree of harmony in the village — everyone might be at each other 's throats — but it does indicate that within the village there is a reasonably close-knit social pattern , rather than a disparate group of individuals who happen , coincidentally , to live in the same locality . |
| 8 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 9 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
| 10 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 11 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 12 | For instance , the users and data might be at different sites , support in their use and access could be provided from a additional site , and the extracted data processed at a further one . |
| 13 | Whereas in one , an iron axehead may be a tool used for woodworking and cutting down trees , in another it may be a unit of value — a cow might be worth two axeheads , for example . |
| 14 | A manor , it now seems unnecessary to reiterate , might be worth much or little , depending on a combination of factors : the size of the demensne and the efficiency of its management , whether the customary fines were certain or arbitrary , and if the latter , the vigour with which they were exploited . |
| 15 | His query concerns a 2-iron which his local pro reckoned might be worth more than just a few bob . |
| 16 | This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries . |
| 17 | The Focus Activity asks you to choose an alternative way of delivering care ; to describe how this could be implemented in your situation ; and what the consequences might be for individual clients , costs and staffing . |
| 18 | This might be for disciplinary reasons or for redundancies arising from , perhaps , reduced staffing needs or curricular changes . |
| 19 | An appropriate response might be for four strong women to hold him down while a fifth administers a local anaesthetic and removes his balls . |
| 20 | She arrived back down in Gavarnie , ‘ still merry and confident ’ according to the Anna lists , as well she might be for all the effort she had had to make . |
| 21 | However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions . |
| 22 | To try and work out why some ways of organising nursing care make it easier to give care which suits the needs of individual clients , we shall look at four commonly used delivery systems and try to identify who the real client(s) might be for each of them . |
| 23 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 24 | We have suggested that properly coordinated motility might be of crucial importance in promoting acid clearance , and could therefore be an unrecognised factor in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulceration . |
| 25 | As a result of which , she had to acknowledge ruefully , everything in her wardrobe , while it might be of good quality , was strictly practical . |
| 26 | A work on the birds of Europe might be of limited scientific value , as Gould himself confessed — it could hardly uncover any startling revelations — but it would be bound to attract the crucial number of subscribers . |
| 27 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 28 | These might be of equal size or one small one and one larger one . |
| 29 | We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information . |
| 30 | Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to . |