Example sentences of "[noun] might [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenant farmers with a year 's rent arrears might be evicted on a fortnight 's notice . |
| 2 | A parish used to simple ways of ceremony might be confronted with a new vicar who suddenly elaborated the ritual ; or the opposite . |
| 3 | PEOPLE know , in advance , that their already high workload might be increased during a particular period , so they can plan accordingly ? |
| 4 | Outside Ulster , the proposed force might be regarded as a return of the B Specials . |
| 5 | Admiral Lord Keith encountered difficulty with an important freeholder who had requested , through an intermediary , that a young man named Maitland might be admitted as a cadet into the college at Woolwich . |
| 6 | Or royalist subjects might be faced by a fellow subject who argues that the monarch should revive these former powers . |
| 7 | The data might be read as a backhanded success for the Thatcher government . |
| 8 | A poet might be attached to a household , or , increasingly , be dependent on travelling between households , performing his work and looking for hospitality and support . |
| 9 | Where this assessment is incorrect , the result might be described as a ponderous or patronising style . |
| 10 | Odd as this may sound , the idea that an association might be formed between a CS and the absence of some event is not without precedent in associative theorizing . |
| 11 | When Drexel 's former equity head , Arthur Kirsch , let it be known last spring that Drexel 's entire American-equity department might be had as a going concern , BZW did not pause to carry out market research on the venture . |
| 12 | Personal ambition might be served by a bureaucracy , but is perhaps more associated with power culture and person culture . |
| 13 | A similar provision might be used in a contract for services , such as an engineering contract ; for instance " our total liability for loss , damage or injury shall not exceed the total value of the contract " ( see Harbutt 's " Plasticine " Ltd v Wayne Tank and Pump Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 QB 447 ) . |
| 14 | Yet in the early months of 1543 , it almost looked as though the complexities might be avoided by a pre-emptive strike by the English which would immediately and radically resolve Scotland 's position . |
| 15 | Any employee at Coniston Mines during the 19th Century would fall into one of two distinct categories : ( 1 ) a dayworker , whose wages were generally based upon a rate of so much per day but which was variable depending upon the degree of skill required , yet at times might be calculated on a piece rate , or , ( 2 ) a miner engaged in winning ore from the stopes , tunnelling , raising , or shaft sinking through rock . |
| 16 | There is a further danger where community languages have been brought into the curriculum on a par with foreign languages that this concession might be seen as a sufficient response to the failure of the education system for black children as a whole . |
| 17 | Thirdly , I hope to indicate ways in which spiritual direction might be developed as a means of nurture within the church . |
| 18 | Where Sir William might be seen as a diffident , slightly academic figure Labour 's Bruce Kent dives into campaigning with enthusiasm . |
| 19 | What from the central perspective might be seen as an instrument of public expenditure control , from the local level might be seen as a threat to the fabric of local government itself . |
| 20 | For example , a Neolithic stone axe found in a pit inside a Roman building might be interpreted as a stray find unconnected with the Roman structure . |
| 21 | There is a particular danger that national competition policies might be used in a protectionist or promotional manner as described above to give advantage to domestic producers . |
| 22 | The shorter prologue of Lex Salica states that With God 's help it pleased the Franks and their nobility and they agreed that they ought to prohibit all escalations of quarrels for the preservation of enthusiasm for peace among themselves ; and because they excelled other neighbouring peoples by force of arms , so they should excel them in legal authority , with the result that criminal cases might be concluded in a manner appropriate to the type of complaint . |
| 23 | One experienced judicial official commented that evidence in cattle stealing cases might be recorded on a stereotyped printed form to be used by judges and magistrates . |
| 24 | It was suggested that the caravan dwellers might be hoping for a house on the new Greenstiles development , but Medstead housing group chairman , David Winter , felt it unlikely . |
| 25 | In the second case , another pass through the camera can fill the remaining space or part of it ( three to six passes might be required for a multi-image effect ) . |
| 26 | This is a risky method , since a program error might be interpreted as a supervisor request . |
| 27 | A unit of work might be based around a topic like ecology or the leisure interests of young people in Britain or the education systems of different countries . |
| 28 | To some extent the work might be categorised as a study in the various possible kinds of orchestral glissandi ; or indeed as a specious of tuba concerto , for that instrument , so evocative of whales and fog-signals and ships ' sirens , often plays a quasi-obbligato role . |
| 29 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 30 | The possibility that the amount of the bills might be reduced on a taxation which has still not been initiated is not a sufficient reason in this case for setting aside the demand . |