Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is well brought out in a recent paper , the views of Carnap 's which Quine opposed involved the claim that conventionally adopted analytic linguistic frameworks provided criteria of reality , which set up the standards according to which any question that might arise was settlable ( Ricketts 1982 ) . |
| 2 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 3 | I do n't know whether , whether it might 've been worthwhile just questioning a bit more about the the link because he was obviously very keen on it |
| 4 | If I 'd ever done anything — made anything of myself more than a third-rate free-lance — it might 've been different . |
| 5 | This is so even though , inevitably , the amount that you might earn is variable . |
| 6 | Even when what few benefits might exist were pre-empted over my head by two strangers . |
| 7 | She could see that nothing could harm her , that there was no danger , that danger in so far as it might exist was desirable , and she started to walk , slowly , up the street , looking at those who looked at her , exchanging glance for glance , shivering in the warm April air from a tremulous , hopeful , artificial apprehension . |
| 8 | So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities . |
| 9 | He also believes that despite the crowd 's impatience with what they might think is play-acting , 95pc of players who get treatment on the field really do need it . |
| 10 | Other ideas which might appeal are conservation work or playing a more active role in politics by joining your local party association . |
| 11 | Another one that you might consider is joint tenancy in common . |
| 12 | Others who might benefit are high-risk patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or idiopathic long QT interval syndrome with a history of cardiac arrest or a ‘ malignant ’ family history . |
| 13 | This distinction between what would happen and what might happen is crucial for what follows . |
| 14 | They have no ‘ implication of utterance ’ : whatever meaning potential they might have is remote from any realization , since the contexts which would provide the occasion for their use are of unlikely occurrence . |
| 15 | I mean I think you 'll find that erm that there was an amaz you know I mean that , that while the language might have been simple it was n't simplistic and , but the change in a in a way now is around . |
| 16 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 17 | But if the then Prime Minister had been governing by decree based on policies formed by her own beliefs , credit might have been easy . |
| 18 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
| 19 | The speculation might have been premature but Rioch has since applied for the job . |
| 20 | Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower . |
| 21 | Mum and Dad 'd come , get interviewed by the Chief Inspector : ‘ Do you think , Mr Marquis , that your daughter might have been involved in something more serious — breaking and entering , drug trafficking ? ’ |
| 22 | Limerick being warned not to drink their tapwater , as local authority officials worried that cyanide might have been involved in the spillage . |
| 23 | This business of him going missing … ’ began the Brigadier , ‘ It 's possible that he might have been involved in something big . |
| 24 | However , some reports speculated that Sikh extremists might have been involved in the murder . |
| 25 | They say they have only tenuous evidence Gary might have been involved in drugs . |
| 26 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 27 | Dead is dead , no matter who signs the warrant , though it might have been nice to think that BW had felt compassion when she typed that letter and a bit of respect , maybe , for Stoker Gerry McKeown of the Mercantile Marine . |
| 28 | Even then , all might have been well . |
| 29 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 30 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |