Example sentences of "[noun] might be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenant farmers with a year 's rent arrears might be evicted on a fortnight 's notice . |
| 2 | in whom the power to discontinue any criminal proceedings at any stage before judgment is delivered is vested by section 94(3) ( c ) of the Constitution of Jamaica , considered that the plea of guilty to manslaughter should not have been accepted and decided to discontinue the proceedings in this case in order that the defendant might be charged with the murder on a fresh indictment . |
| 3 | In May , the McNair Committee had reported on the future of teacher training ; late in July the Fleming Report suggested some of the ways in which the Public Schools might be integrated into the national educational system . |
| 4 | The group reviewed evidence that the warming effect might be delayed by the high levels of sulphur dioxide present in the atmosphere as a result of industrial pollution , on account of the gas 's property of reflecting some of the sun 's incoming heat . |
| 5 | A parish used to simple ways of ceremony might be confronted with a new vicar who suddenly elaborated the ritual ; or the opposite . |
| 6 | Thus something of the effect of using " the " with postgraduate study might be seen in the following ( still slightly unidiomatic ) example : Of the two phases of study which I want to pursue , I want to undertake the postgraduate study in Britain and the undergraduate study in America . |
| 7 | He was unable to comment on questions about whether an IRA cell might be operating in the area . |
| 8 | PEOPLE know , in advance , that their already high workload might be increased during a particular period , so they can plan accordingly ? |
| 9 | The co-operation of these voices might be seen as the very essence of critical commentary : to interpret the text while refering to it with varying levels of precision . |
| 10 | Outside Ulster , the proposed force might be regarded as a return of the B Specials . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He also pointed out that the apparently prodigious appetites of the clergy might be explained by the droves of tourists and worshippers who ate at Vatican restaurants . |
| 13 | This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again . |
| 14 | The teacher 's demonstration might be countered by the retort that other things besides chalk leave white traces on a blackboard . |
| 15 | In serious mountains that spring might be influenced by the thrill of being at high altitude , while in lower terrain the jauntiness of stride may reflect the rollercoaster of broad panoramas and changing perspectives . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Or royalist subjects might be faced by a fellow subject who argues that the monarch should revive these former powers . |
| 18 | A poem or a literary extract might be read during the visit . |
| 19 | The data might be read as a backhanded success for the Thatcher government . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the one hand , the antisemitism of ‘ anti-immigrant ’ fascist parties might be seen as an anachronism , arising from the fact that for a number of years such parties were led by a generation who were raised in conditions of widespread antisemitism . |
| 22 | To both men it seemed that a way out for all parties might be found in an international conference , such as that which had settled the Luxembourg question in 1867 . |
| 23 | Both courses of action might be assisted by an Age Discrimination Act which would become the benchmark for policy and practice . |
| 24 | Where this assessment is incorrect , the result might be described as a ponderous or patronising style . |
| 25 | And then , perhaps far back in the dim Permian Age , sufficient harm might be done for the further development of life forms to cease . |
| 26 | Thus in relation to conceptual criteria , research might be criticized on the grounds of inconsistency of reasoning or imprecision of terminology or general intellectual ineptitude , using the standards of argumentation approved by our culture ( though not necessarily by others ) . |
| 27 | From any clutch it 's possible that one or two would n't hatch , and if food was short a little chick might be killed by an elder sibling ( or by its mother so that the stronger chick would survive ) . |
| 28 | One possible prediction might be based on the inverted-U relationship between arousal and performance , this would imply that with increasing risk memory would first improve and then decline . |
| 29 | A more specific prediction might be produced on the basis of Easterbrook 's hypothesis , this would state that memory for central details would be enhanced with increasing risk , while memory for peripheral details would be impaired . |
| 30 | 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 . |