Example sentences of "might be [verb] [prep] the future " in BNC.

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1 But disposal sites would have to avoid areas containing resources such as manganese nodules which might be exploited in the future .
2 For he will realize that if this technique became popular , people who might benefit from new , forward-looking rules would lose their incentive to bring to court novel cases in which these new rules might be announced for the future .
3 I saw only a little of the country areas outside WA — I hope this might be rectified in the future .
4 The way that this has been done in the past is the subject of the next chapter ; the way that it might be done in the future is the justification for this book .
5 Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker .
6 Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back .
7 The matter of the paper is to present those areas of AI ( some would say that is too parochial and what I shall put forward belongs more generally to Computer Science ) where a mechanical analogue of consciousness might be sought in the future , and to argue that they are not the obvious places , and have not been subjected to much philosophical investigation .
8 With politicians and military leaders the keeping of a diary is not only the gathering of data for a future book but can also be a form of self-defence in preparation for any post-mortems which might be held in the future .
9 And we are in fact looking at these projects to see that there is , or if there is , good , not merely ordinary value for money , but good educational value for money , and what might be learnt for the future .
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