Example sentences of "might be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brand might be no mark of honour at all — but a culminating cruel humiliating jape . |
| 2 | Well it takes , I mean if to start off with you 've got ta get rich peasants to save some surplus and then see he 's not gon na invest every single surplus in one year cos the harvest next year might be no good so you 've got the sort of vagaries of the Chinese weather situation so you 've obviously got ta sort of stock up |
| 3 | In his judgment Lord Denning suggested that if Norwich would ‘ get a move on ’ in processing applications to buy there might be no need for the minister to act . |
| 4 | The Middleborough mosaic shows very few inconsistencies of style , so few in fact , that there might be no need to postulate the presence of more than one mosaicist ( section 3.5 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ But there might be no motive at all . |
| 6 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 7 | If something should happen to him , there might be no institution prepared to take over . |
| 8 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |
| 9 | There might be every reason for treating such evidence with care , but the reasons were not sufficient to form a legal barrier to submitting the evidence at all . |
| 10 | It might be a waft of opium ; for she was dreamy now ; but a knock on the door . |
| 11 | where quantification is already evident in the accounts themselves ( an example of which might be a presentation rather than a measurement matter , such as an adaptation of the headings in the Act 's format requirements not covered by paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 4 ) , or ( |
| 12 | I think there might be a parcel for you at the door is it ? |
| 13 | Whoever was manoeuvring her , it had now occurred to her that it might be a wife . |
| 14 | The important point is that melatonin might be a link between the environment and body clock in ourselves also and its release might promote inactivity or tiredness . |
| 15 | In addition , we should consider whether there might be a link between the dominant ideas transmitted through socialisation and those people who benefit from the existing distribution of power and reward . |
| 16 | If that 's sexist , I apologise , but look at ‘ Musical Freedom ’ ; it might be a song about liberation , but believe me , those tits are always in camera . |
| 17 | Thought it might be a puff-ball . |
| 18 | We will just , let's , let's threaten him that , that might be a course of action that we 're gon na have to re we will have , we will have |
| 19 | A note to William Watson suggests that there might be a case of mistaken identity in an abstract he presented from the Flora Sibirica on Sphondylium vulgare hirsutum [ i.e. Heracleum sphondylium ] . |
| 20 | ‘ We had one building where staff always complained of being sick , with suggestions that it might be a case of sick building syndrome . |
| 21 | He did not ask himself , as in my view he ought , whether on the undisputed evidence this might be a case for a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care . |
| 22 | The carrier would be surprised to hear , while he was paid for one , that he was carrying two , or even three , for it might be a case of twins , as Mr. Walker suggested . |
| 23 | If one was not worried about the sovereignty arguments there might be a case for a single currency in Europe . |
| 24 | Does he further agree that there might be a case for extending the training of social workers , especially in this area ? |
| 25 | I do not say this in a malicious way or to score debating points , but I said that the chairman of Scottish Nuclear had argued at the Nuclear Forum that there might be a case , in the strategic interests of the nation , to subsidise nuclear power . |
| 26 | Both I and my hon. Friend have received representations from the Southampton eye hospital , suggesting that there might be a case for extending the provisions of the Bill to ophthalmic casualty . |
| 27 | There might be a case , on a very big projects , where we do n't get the minimum response , for GOING ahead anyway . |
| 28 | She became convinced that she had read the letters of the Chevalier de Boufflers to the Comtesse de Sabran in another life , and that she might be a reincarnation . |
| 29 | We thought it might be a bow wave from a steamer . ’ |
| 30 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |