Example sentences of "might be [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped it would be put to use , though there was a chance it might be just ballast for the journey . |
| 2 | The alternative to institution-led standards might be either deprofessionalisation or re-registration tests of competence . |
| 3 | Tutwork was also estimated on a tonnage basis , the miners being paid on a bargain according to the actual weight of material extracted , which might be either ore or stone . |
| 4 | He said it might be tomorrow night , it might not be . |
| 5 | That 's what I he did agree to it when I I mentioned it to him but I just ha I want to check if he 's doing one tomorrow , cos if he 's doing one tomorrow it might be tomorrow morning so I 'll have |
| 6 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 7 | Some formula such as 50 per cent of the current local room rate ( given the place and period this might be about £30 ) might be acceptable . |
| 8 | One possible definition of I 1 is the initial margin payment , which might be about 4% of the price of the future ( Bear , 1972 ; Brooks and Hand , 1988 ; Francis , 1991 ; Gressis , Vlahos and Philippatos , 1984 ; Levy , 1987 ; Niederhoffer and Zeckhauser , 1980 ; Panton and Joy , 1978 ; Robichek , Cohn and Pringle , 1972 ; Schrock , 1971 ; Turner , Houston and Shepherd , 1992 ; Yau , Savanayana and Schneeweis , 1990 ) , while Lukac , Brorsen and Irwin ( 1988a ; 1988b ) and Marshall and Herbst ( 1992 ) defined the investment as the initial margin plus the funds set aside to cover subsequent margin payments . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , it is concerned with food , with telephone sales or with insurance , the people to train might be home economists , one of the telephone sales force or the area sales manager . |
| 10 | But left , right , above conceivably might be merely qualities of the perceiver 's own visual field and not at all relations in an objective space . |
| 11 | Fifty , sixty , seventy , oh she might be still living . |
| 12 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |