Example sentences of "they might be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might be about er a month old , perhaps six weeks old and we used to get them sometimes , most of the time we would get about four there , sometimes three . |
| 2 | Who knows , if the Gauguins were left on the island one day they might be worth — ’ I drew a breath — ‘ twenty or even thirty thousand each ? ’ |
| 3 | The chapter on Explaining made trouble for Positivist ideas of explanation but did not suggest that they might be beside the point . |
| 4 | Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ? |
| 5 | And he put his sons to read , that they might be of the better understanding , and he made them take arms , and be shown how to demean themselves in battle , and to be huntsmen . |
| 6 | She hid them in our quarters , thinking they might be of use to the party , but Devraux found them and she was taken to prison . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Vain they might be at times , dangerous , vicious even , when the devil was in them . |
| 9 | For the first eleven years following its introduction , ICA offered one of the most explicit examples of the assumption that married women are ( or should be ) economically inactive and financially dependent upon an earning husband — until 1986 they were excluded from the benefit on the grounds that ‘ they might be at home in any event ’ ( DHSS , 1974 , para. 60 ) . |
| 10 | they they might be at risk . |
| 11 | Clearly , outright control does indeed take place , but on a day-to-day level social stability is secured largely through people feeling that they might be under scrutiny . |
| 12 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 13 | They were nearly all men , show-business or gossip columnists , old hands at the game and professional cynics , which well they might be on an occasion like this . |
| 14 | No , they might be on the dole or what they used to call the Board of Guardians something like that . |
| 15 | Yeah well there 's a problem with that because they might be on different project number mighten they ? |
| 16 | For the modern Christian , however , there is often no awareness of the geographical and political relation between these places , how far they might be from each other , how long a journey from one to the other might take . |
| 17 | No one in the room is excluded , as they might be from a maths activity that some of them ca n't do ; or from a games session , where physical prowess is such an important factor . |
| 18 | They might be from almost any walk of life from whore to female preacher , and would follow their army ( or any army in some cases ) throughout the campaigns . |
| 19 | Although they might be in major shops soon , they 're presently only available from |
| 20 | And of course I think that maybe the electricians and the , the other tradesmen they might be in their equivalent union . |
| 21 | So although the gamma ray background tells us that there can be no more than 300 primordial black holes per cubic light-year on average , it tells us nothing about how common they might be in our own galaxy . |
| 22 | Floppy drives and video are all OK but they might be in need of modernisation . |
| 23 | I thought about what they might be like . |
| 24 | It 's amazing how much we pick up just from listening to someone on the telephone , and of course when you ca n't see them , so you have n't got any visual clues as to what they might be like , what you hear becomes all important . |
| 25 | Two very important indexing journals not always used as much as they might be by social researchers are the British Humanities Index and the Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin . |