Example sentences of "might [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These attacks might only be cattle raids — that 's bad enough-but sometimes they might be more hostile . |
| 2 | It might only be hours before the police start questioning you ! ’ |
| 3 | It might only be pebbles against Patriots , and the Inspirals might be as interested in the ephemera of psychedelic pop and training shoes as they are in delivering any deeper message , but to their new American fans the Inspirals represent a special hope , an idea that something more sensitive than Guns N' Roses and Madonna might thrive . |
| 4 | So faint , it might only be moonlight through the clouds — then she saw long pale hair streaming . |
| 5 | It might only be breast tissue , I do n't know that . |
| 6 | Which might just be Alan Davies ' test for 1992 . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you know , Miss Hardbroom , it might just be Algernon Rowan-Webb . |
| 8 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
| 9 | There might just be benefits |
| 10 | I can always give you a routine check-up , but obviously , if you get any twinges , even if you think it might just be wind , give us a call . |
| 11 | If the whites in Southern Africa could see this , not as a threat but as an opportunity — if they could grasp the truth that by a change of will and spirit they could deprive the Communists of their best propaganda weapon — there still might just be time for things to move in a new direction . |
| 12 | Mrs McDougall had promised to have milk and bread for me , and there might possibly be mail , brought over by the morning 's ferry . |
| 13 | Er Er this motion is not an attempt to preempt applications Mr Chairman come before us that 's Mr said time is indicating for the first time that er September might possibly be months . |
| 14 | Experience teaches.a lot as to whether or not a phenomenon is likely to be a genuine signal or background noise , but there is still a twilight zone , the tantalising occurrences which are probably noise but might possibly be signal . |
| 15 | ‘ My client wants you to kill someone on Level 121 , ’ he said , low , even though the bartender and anyone else in what might possibly be earshot were making it obvious they were n't listening . |
| 16 | He considered tearing off his waders but there might still be time to cross the far side of the breakwater without having to swim for it . |
| 17 | United visit Villa Park , and Atkinson wistfully linked the past with the present when he said : ‘ If I 'd had Dean Saunders at United , we would have won the Championship and I might still be manager of Manchester United . ’ |
| 18 | In the same way that there are rules within sentences , limiting which words can follow others , so there might also be rules within discourses , limiting which sentence can follow another one , and if I write ‘ The knight killed the dragon ’ , then there might be limits , or constraints , on what I can put as the next sentence . |
| 19 | Rizzo suggests that Parthenissa might also be Elizabeth Lisle Bowles , wife of the Brackley vicar [ Rizzo ] . |
| 20 | There might also be problems if there is any disagreement between teachers and advisers over the agenda of the evaluation or the report produced . |
| 21 | I think some of my er introductory comments might now be inspector , er understand the er sort of urban situation , erm we heard yesterday about er discussion about the similarities between different districts in North Yorkshire and the possible differences . |
| 22 | But masonry of this nature might equally be part of a dock or quay , so the correct position of the Roman bridge still remains in considerable doubt . |
| 23 | Climate change through the man-made modification of greenhouse gases might be disastrous , but it might equally be deliverance . |
| 24 | It 's now quite sterile yet still manages to be immensely variable — to such a degree that even in the 18th century , gardeners thought all crocuses might simply be variants of it . |
| 25 | Otherwise , they might simply be part of the background . |
| 26 | Others suspect that exhibition spaces might simply be veils for new real-estate deals . |
| 27 | It might even be arsenic and he would be dead in ten seconds flat . |
| 28 | He might even be Puddephat 's own son , she thought , her imagination suddenly taking flight . |
| 29 | There is plenty of choice , starting with TSB in the high street , and there might even be NatWest . |
| 30 | I lo , I might even be Romeo . |