Example sentences of "might be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take another example : Radioactivity in the surface and coastal waters of the British Isles , 1977 might be converted to an alphabetical description such as : Water pollutants Radioactive materials — Great Britain or into a classification notation such as 628.16850941 . |
| 2 | At least by then some of his pupils might be converted to the idea that there 's more to the cinema than the Addams Family and Terminator 2 . |
| 3 | The union suggests that crofters get an automatic entitlement for up to ten cows and that sheep quota might be converted to cattle quota within the Highlands and Islands area . |
| 4 | He insisted that this was a voice with characteristic qualities which might be exploited to some purpose on the air . |
| 5 | For a moment Louisa wondered whether this platitudinous sentiment might be turned to advantage , but it could not be done without contrivance ; and when she looked up she saw how the Rector 's face aspired to bravery . |
| 6 | An undergraduate met by chance on the campus walkway might be treated to one of his brilliant , spontaneous tutorials , the kind normally only dreamt about , while a group of colleagues over whose meeting he was to preside gazed at an empty chair . |
| 7 | The factors differentiating metastability of gall bladder bile in two populations might be ascribed to the CSI and the distribution of vesicular cholesterol . |
| 8 | THERE are renewed fears that the scenically spectacular Cairngorm estate of Mar Lodge — which contains Ben MacDhui , the second highest mountain in Britain — might be lost to the nation following a failure by conservation bodies to put together a financial package to buy it . |
| 9 | It might be referred to as ‘ intensive information processing , ’ where data on upstream events are continually released downstream , and vice versa ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 10 | We are suggesting the establishment of what might be referred to in shorthand as " Ofbus " , along the lines of Oftel and Ofgas . |
| 11 | The section does not create what might be referred to as a permit requirement , since subject to what is said below , it does not empower the police to refuse permission to hold the procession , as is the law in certain other jurisdictions . |
| 12 | In practice , even the threat that a merger might be referred to the MMC was often sufficient to induce the companies to drop their merger proposals . |
| 13 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 14 | To capture the social aspects of deixis , we would need to add at least one further dimension , say of relative rank , in which the speaker is socially higher , lower or equal to the addressee and other persons that might be referred to . |
| 15 | The top players might be exposed to the ruthless rigours of international rugby four times a season , with perhaps a fortnight between games . |
| 16 | At the same time , the parents were asked about family smoking habits and any other way in which the baby might be exposed to passive smoking . |
| 17 | The sort of transient contact with dog dirt you mention is really very common , and it 's never possible to protect children from all the infections they might be exposed to . |
| 18 | So , in seeing the transvestite boy , the male member of the audience might be moved to lascivious thoughts about women , which then transfer to the boy himself . |
| 19 | On the rare occasions when a site due to be destroyed is found to be very important , construction plans may be changed to accommodate the display of the site , or the remains might be moved to somewhere where they can preserved , displayed , and enjoyed by the public . |
| 20 | Or you might be invited to a party , start to feel uncomfortable and have the courage to comply when your inner voice tells you to go , knowing that your guide will keep you safe from harm . |
| 21 | It was somewhat surprising , then , that McIlvanney felt uneasy being approached for this profile , apparently for fear that he might be invited to ‘ pontificate , when I really do n't think I have that much to say ’ , It sounded like false modesty , but after he 'd relented , I remembered the long-standing ‘ pin-down ’ policy employed to prevent hubris in sports writers . |
| 22 | It is assumed that social values , which are also placed on a single linear dimension , might be assigned to each variant . |
| 23 | According to the WEU Secretary-General , Willem van Eekelen , as many as 50,000 troops might be assigned to the new force , most of them from existing units , including an Anglo-Dutch amphibious division , a planned multinational North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) division and the recently formed Franco-German corps [ see pp. 38931-32 ] . |
| 24 | The sceptics did not deny that by means of what was traditionally called an ‘ empirical ’ sign we might be led to indirect knowledge of something temporarily hidden : smoke from over the building is a sign that there is a fire behind . |
| 25 | If I had a little light , I thought , I might be tempted to a bit of a read in bed . |
| 26 | An example of how this might be applied to an inventory record would be to control the format of named collections , e.g. ‘ Sloane Bequest , Miscellanea ’ . |
| 27 | The occurrence of older age Carboniferous subcrop beneath the Cleveland Hills suggests that a similar argument might be applied to the estimated amount of 2500 m uplift . |
| 28 | In the light of this discussion I offer some indications as to how a strategy of reading might be applied to the study of racist discourses , and invite readers to try out this approach on the two study texts , not in order to produce ‘ the right answer ’ but to compare what is gained and what lost in detail and depth of understanding by applying this kind of model compared to the others . |
| 29 | In principle , it might be applied to English . |
| 30 | Below are some examples of how the different note-systems might be applied to a specific topic . |