Example sentences of "might [be] " in BNC.

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1 Oh they might been but I do n't I do n't know how long no .
2 It might be helpful to take to your solicitor a form of words to cover your gift to ACET and we suggest the following : ‘ To ACET of Paramount House , 71/75 Uxbridge Road , Ealing , London W5 for its general purposes ( one of these alternatives ) : ’
3 Telephone Janet Sutton during office hours if you would like to know more about us , and how we might be able to help you .
4 I hope that you might be able to continue to help our patients in this manner . ’
5 According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace .
6 Consider Czech art , which might be said to have existed only since the beginning of the Czechoslovak state after the first World War .
7 It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books .
8 Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture .
9 Diderot 's standards were those primarily of a moralist , questioning how morality might be fashioned through painting , but he was sensitive to artistic aims ; his essay on painting was admired both by Goethe and Baudelaire .
10 Accurate copies might be made , but there is in addition a category of interpretive copy , where the artist copies those elements which most appeal to him .
11 There remains the courtesy paid by one art to another , as in the poem which Baudelaire suggested might be a high form of critical writing .
12 The critic may be willing to share an experience with the reader , sometimes only of the circumstances in which a work was seen , as might be included in a personality article ; but on other occasions the critic may give a fuller account of a personal response to a work of art .
13 Here , he surrounds the politics of his imaginary country with darkness , distinguishes between its politics and what might be seen as the antics of bystanders , and concentrates on these bystanders .
14 The local queen falls in love with him , and it seems that the journey to Italy might be called off .
15 And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life .
16 ‘ Mephitic ’ might be compared with Fraser 's ‘ ulcerous ’ in ‘ Resentment wells up like an ulcerous vapour ’ .
17 He would appear to believe in an invented truth , an invented reality — a Rortyan reality , one might be inclined to call it at times .
18 The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented .
19 Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life .
20 I would like to say a last word about Amis 's voices , and about the long words which have been or might be laid on his confident art — a terminology for which he is unlikely to be grateful .
21 The poem might be thought self-pitying if it were more believable .
22 ‘ Polymorphous Roth ’ might be nearer the mark .
23 Who might be your mother ,
24 Her Birmingham background is hinted at and if you can manage a Birmingham accent it might be useful , but it is not essential in finding the character .
25 But it was n't as bad as I thought it might be .
26 Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership .
27 Perhaps ‘ salvation by grace , experienced in listening to the preaching or reading of the biblical word , and in affirming the literal interpretation of that word ’ might be a better if clumsier phrase .
28 Public opinion responds to the conjunction of culture and event and solidifies either old or burgeoning values as might be the case .
29 Its position on abortion itself was hardly ambiguous : the minutes of the Assembly meeting for 1982 point out ‘ [ the Assembly 's ] opposition to abortion on demand for purely social reasons , or as a means of birth control … [ and ] that in exceptional circumstances , where medical abortion might be necessary , the most stringent safeguards should be provided to prevent abuse ’ ( Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1930–86 , General Assembly ( 1982 ) , p. 61 ) .
30 This was generally understood by the media to mean that the hierarchy would not oppose the introduction of divorce in a future united Ireland , indeed that they might be prepared to budge on the issue even now .
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