Example sentences of "might be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany argued that a member state might legitimately adopt appropriate criteria with regard to the grant of flag rights in order to safeguard the objectives of the Community system of fishing quotas ; it considered that , if necessary , the criteria adopted to that end might be contrary to the E.E.C . |
| 2 | I hope you do not think me unduly vain with regard to this last matter ; it is just that one never knows when one might be obliged to give out that one is from Darlington Hall , and it is important that one be attired at such times in a manner worthy of one 's position . |
| 3 | Otherwise , the Law Society might be obliged to oppose the current legal aid franchising proposals . |
| 4 | The realization that the US forces might have to be retained in the Gulf for the foreseeable future , or that , having defeated Iraq , the USA might be obliged to address other Middle Eastern issues — particularly the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory — had caused a small but vociferous revival of right-wing isolationism in the USA . |
| 5 | Some banks are already reported to be refusing to repossess land that is polluted or contaminated , on the grounds that they might be obliged to pay the costs of cleaning up the property . |
| 6 | … He said it might be fascinating . |
| 7 | The ideas might be splendid in themselves but you must consider how they will contribute to the strategy . |
| 8 | However , partly by design and partly as a consequence of this difference in the degree of explicitness , the block exemption system has ( arguably ) reduced the incentives of firms to notify the authorities of agreements which contain clauses which might be anticompetitive . |
| 9 | It might be simpler to find the total energy in space than the flux crossing a given surface . |
| 10 | If coin 's so short , it might be simpler to offer me to Owen just as I am , in exchange for Mortimer . |
| 11 | This assumes that the bathroom is next to or above the kitchen ( as is usually the case ) ; if running hot water to another room ( a bedroom , say ) will create a very long pipe run , it might be simpler to install a separate instantaneous or small storage heater . |
| 12 | In an ideal world , your knees should be straight throughout the exercise but , to start with , it might be simpler to bend them a bit . |
| 13 | But schools are not businesses — it might be simpler if they were — and many of the organizational concepts were hammered out and tested in business organizations . |
| 14 | It might be simpler , in the end , to actually become a Muslim . |
| 15 | Economically it might be simpler if there was no peasantry , but was not its sturdy conservatism a guarantee of social stability , as its sturdy and numerous progeny were the backbone of most government 's armies ? |
| 16 | The other one might be more straightforward to do one plan , cos you 've got one policy fee , one policy charge , etc , so there 's that ratio to bear in mind , but the other one might be simpler just to have two plans . |
| 17 | The oral papillae appear to be arranged in two series : a superficial series edging the side of the jaw and a series within the mouth slit which might be oral tentacle scales associated with the first and second oral tentacle pores . |
| 18 | And that would mean having to borrow someone else 's name , and that might be embarrassing . |
| 19 | She might be nearer than she thinks . |
| 20 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 21 | Mr and Mrs Chambers were more like proxy parents than servants ; they might be upset at his sending back so much food . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the transaction might be upset if the debtor had acted as agent for the lender and had been guilty of misrepresentation or undue influence . |
| 23 | Oh , you thought I might be upset . |
| 24 | But his authority within the Government slipped momentarily , and worse still , there was a danger that the whole Abdication timetable might be upset . |
| 25 | She rushed to tell me , fearing that I might be upset . |
| 26 | Thus the proportion of the population , as opposed to the number of local authorities , under Labour control might be substantial . |
| 27 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 28 | To do nothing might be worse — Allan had greeted them at the house with the news ( fresh from the great oven of rumour , the widow Duff 's at Ballinluig ) that a file of English soldiers had ridden out from Perth . |
| 29 | Dutch policies applied generally might have a damaging influence on the world economy , it says , ‘ How great such influence might be and to what extent it might be worse that that resulting from the worldwide deterioration in the quality of the environment is not known . ’ |
| 30 | To change horses yet again would be , admittedly , an extraordinary admission of failure ; but to cling stubbornly to the neck of an ailing nag might be worse . |