Example sentences of "might be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 2 | A second route might be to allow domestic producers to agree on predatory responses to attempts by foreign suppliers to enter the national market . |
| 3 | An alternative might be to use separate subfields for different parts of the number . |
| 4 | However , FAST noted that a possible future biotechnological development might be to use chemoautotrophic micro-organisms able to utilise mixtures of carbon dioxide and hydrogen ( which could be obtained from coal by reaction with steam ) to provide a wide range of organic compounds . |
| 5 | She saw herself wheeled along white corridors , wired up to huge machines that clicked , whirred , and flashed lights : this was her greatest fear , that she might be kept alive artificially by machinery , a mumbling vegetable , after her natural time to die had arrived . |
| 6 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 7 | ‘ Not really , I just thought she might be getting restless and I 've had an idea . |
| 8 | Scott Cunningham has developed the practice of magical aromatherapy , where he uses these natural aromas for effects such as stimulation of the mind , protection , purification and psychic awareness , thereby attaining what might be called magical states of consciousness . |
| 9 | This will be the case quite regularly so that it is not in the least surprising if in many instances general expectations have crystallized into rigid habits ( which might be called syntactic " rules " ) governing the possibilities open to an adjective as a type item , irrespective of the facts of any particular token occasion . |
| 10 | An alternative to the expulsion procedure exists in what might be called compulsory retirement ( Clause 18.03 ) . |
| 11 | The problem is to distinguish this type of rejection of psychoanalytic propositions — the result of the feelings aroused in people by uncomfortable material — from what might be called genuine objections of a kind which are reasoned and scientific . |
| 12 | Joan 's use of Creole is so limited that it might be called tokenistic . |
| 13 | The force within can also be manipulated through … Dieting , in which you are discouraged from eating meat because it provokes unhelpful vibrations and produces what might be called static interference in meditation . |
| 14 | At the same time the Island women showed greater signs of what might be called normal anxiety . |
| 15 | Most of these demonstrators appeared to be intellectual , or at least what might be called middle class . |
| 16 | Their view of the seriousness of Iraq 's action , and the reaction it demanded , was different enough from Mr Bush 's to scupper talk of global partnerships and replace it by what might be called contingent leadership . |
| 17 | Implicit agreements or what might be called self-imposed regulation ( as in the Building Society sector and the Stock Exchange in the past ) have tended to be eroded by competition or the need to compete . |
| 18 | So tomorrow would have to do , and the obvious move now was to see Mrs McDougall myself and get what might be called hard evidence from her . |
| 19 | It should be a task of social representation theory to investigate those strands of contemporary culture which , properly speaking , might be called objectified social representations , as well as those other elements , which are not objectified representations . |
| 20 | It might be thought , for example , that the arbitrator is typical of adjudicative authorities , and that what might be called legislative authorities differ from them in precisely these respects . |
| 21 | Let us deal first , with what might be called methodological problems . |
| 22 | Although nowadays a certain amount of mechanical testing is done for what might be called academic reasons , by far the most of it is done for strictly practical ends and in fact a thorough knowledge of the actual strength of its materials is , like drains and income tax , one of the things which no advanced civilization can do without . |
| 23 | And this distinction between an hour as sixty minutes and an hour as a section of complex human experience , is I suppose the distinction one would make between clock time and what might be called existential time , time as it 's humanly experienced . |
| 24 | The ones I have so far mentioned might be called mimetic , that is , the distinctions king/servant , sane man/madman , are distinctions that exist in real life , outside the theatre , and are rendered within a Shakespeare play by the distinction between verse and prose . |
| 25 | The mood is one of what might be called creative compliance rather than avoidance as such . |
| 26 | Sterotabs Extra , £3.75 for 30 tablets , are more powerful and one tablet will purify 25 ltr of water in 10 minutes — particularly good for camping holidays when you might be using large plastic water containers . |
| 27 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 28 | While the convention might be to undertake rigorous market analyses to identify new opportunities , the Profitboss is out on the street finding out what people want . |
| 29 | It was common for the storage building to be accompanied by a pair of kilns and a complete range of such structures might be erected adjacent to a very long storage building on a site where the cultivation of hops was undertaken intensively ( eg , at the hop farm of a brewery . ) |
| 30 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |