Example sentences of "might be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oral papillae appear to be arranged in two series : a superficial series edging the side of the jaw and a series within the mouth slit which might be oral tentacle scales associated with the first and second oral tentacle pores . |
| 2 | His obstinacy up to now might be all bravado . |
| 3 | But if if a lot of schools opted out could you imagine that there might be one school that was famed for its computer excellence , and another school famed for its musical excellence , and you might have different specialist kinds of schools , not quite as dramatically delineated as I have suggested , but that would be the balance of interest in these different schools and would that be healthy ? |
| 4 | Attaching doctors to single hospitals for both of their house jobs might be one way of making them a more obvious part of the system . |
| 5 | Free schooling to ensure a minimum level of education , communication , and social interaction might be one way to achieve this . |
| 6 | He said there might be one way , you know , I should think about it . |
| 7 | you 're talking about , might be one way of getting |
| 8 | Erm and along with this we were thinking about ways to subsidize conference for people and this might be one way to do it for the for York Green Party to pay part of the cost of renting the accommodation . |
| 9 | I mean it might be one year you want |
| 10 | ‘ It might be one day . |
| 11 | Well one of you on cleaning fruit , getting all the stalks and stones out of the fruit , we used to have a sieve , not a riddle , a sieve with round , the wires were round in the sieve and you rub it , and the stalks would drop through and then you 'd put them out onto an iron baking sheet and sort out all the stones that and little bits that were in the fruit and you 'd be on cleaning fruit you might be one day , the other whichever one was the you 'd be cleaning and greasing baking tins , ready for the baker to put the cakes in or what have you , and then at night we used to grease all the bread tins ready for men to be allowed to drop the dough into the bread tins , and er stuff like that and cleaning up scrubbing down and |
| 12 | Cutting down the amount of laundry , consuming large quantities of detergent and water , might be one aspect of the charter 's influence that guests would notice first . |
| 13 | There might be one cloth for each table ; one place mat for each setting ; one napkin , mug , knife , fork and spoon for each setting ; one plate and one chair for each child . |
| 14 | Defence might be one reason ; there could be others . |
| 15 | That might be one reason why I suffer a bit of asthma now . |
| 16 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 17 | Fruit and veg , might be one example . |
| 18 | The hope that at least the disappearance of the Party might be one thing to emerge from a lost war was said in one report to be more widespread in rural areas than appeared to be so on the surface . |
| 19 | If I could just remember her , as she was , that might be one thing less to be scared about . |
| 20 | Well perhaps in the future that it might be one thing that you might want to lift up and develop as time goes on well done mate . |
| 21 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 22 | In other words , if precedent was followed , the package of budget cuts would be attacked piecemeal when it disappeared into the congressional maze ; even though there might be general agreement on the need to cut the budget , vested interests operating through sympathetic members could , one by one , weaken or restore specific cuts . |
| 23 | This might be legal assistance to recover unpaid fees or help with the negotiations after a cancelled engagement . |
| 24 | he was talking about spending a weekend with us anyway so it might be nice thing to do . |
| 25 | With some people this might be mere bravado , but when Wordsworth was on his way back to England he seems to have lingered in Paris far longer than was necessary , and possibly considered active participation in practical politics ( Prelude 1805 , x , 129 ff ) . |
| 26 | There is first the admission of cravings , sexual and other , felt as unspeakably ignoble , and there is the unappeased fear that the very gifts on whose existence all rescue depends might be mere fantasy , delusion . |
| 27 | She had thought the quantities of gilt ( never did she credit that it might be real gold ) an evidence of shocking vulgarity , had sneered at the bad taste of the ornate picture frames , at the ridiculous excesses of the pictures themselves , and had felt a solid , suburban scorn for the frayed and patched tapestry chair seats and the faded hangings : she had wondered why , if so rich , they did not throw out their tatty Persian coverings , and buy themselves a good bit of fitted Wilton or Axminster in a good plain colour . |
| 28 | It was felt that if we had that information available that it might be worthwhile exercise to carry out some analysis of erm time was given or |
| 29 | It suddenly occurs to me that it might be pure insanity to take this loan . |
| 30 | That might be pure fiction but nevertheless it was a very amusing story at the time . |