Example sentences of "might [be] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Six weeks ago I thought my whole career might be up , but I love it over here , ’ he said . |
| 2 | After this , if there was to be an after , how could she live knowing what he might be up to , and the tight corners he could be getting into . |
| 3 | Clement admitted : ‘ I might be up against it to play against England on February 6 . |
| 4 | Although it is of course difficult to generalise , and some credit unions pay higher rates on savings than others , this difference in the return on savings might be up to around four per cent or so . |
| 5 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 6 | The effect is of a theatre , and the topmost gallery , which it makes every sense in a church to call ‘ the gods ’ , is so close to the ceiling as to make you ask how comfortable it might be up there during mass . |
| 7 | ‘ Lemarchand might be up to anything . ’ |
| 8 | He wondered if he dared ring Brendan Bracken , perhaps drift round to Morpeth Mansions , who knew , Winston might be up , himself . |
| 9 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 10 | Might be up to thirty . |
| 11 | We 'll go and find Postman Pat , there might be up there , go and have a look , you have a look ? |
| 12 | He might be up . |
| 13 | him but er he might not be up in time anyway , cos he 's got a lot of work to do and he thinks he might be up all night tonight , in which case , he wo n't be getting up very early in the morning . |
| 14 | If er if you were going out and you knew the coal man might be round that day so you just left a couple of coal tokens out at the door or whatever . |
| 15 | It discounts the few 41s that might be around as non-production units . |
| 16 | Ironically all those stereotypes of male/female roles emerge triumphant — women do the caring and men get relegated perhaps to what few manual jobs might be around . |
| 17 | ‘ We might be on to something here , ’ murmured Esther , her scheming mind leaping ahead . |
| 18 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , by the time of the Queen 's jubilee that summer there was some sense that a good deal of the worst might be over . |
| 20 | ASTON VILLA are set to offer a new contract to goalkeeper Nigel Spink — six months after he thought his career at the club might be over . |
| 21 | He made his worst start for years , found himself jammed in fourth place and then thought his race for the title might be over when a warning light flickered in the cockpit of the 200mph Renault-Williams . |
| 22 | So we got a thousand letters to do that 's all , well it might be over I do n't know they 're but |
| 23 | I might not reach the telephone , or I might be unable to dial a number , the doctor might be out … . |
| 24 | Most callers at your home will be genuine , but some might be out to steal or cheat you out of your money . |
| 25 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
| 26 | The entertainment often included artistes who might be out at such gatherings several times a week . |
| 27 | It confirms our suspicion that he might be out of favour there . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I believe we 're the only ones left , ’ said Jed as they stopped at East Acton , a rather dark little station that looked as if it might be out in the country . |
| 29 | Anything might be out there . |
| 30 | When I might be out there on the stage , applauded by thousands — however humbly I have to begin . |