Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] might [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triple therapy might be reserved for patients with treatment failure or with suspected penicillin hypersensitivity . |
| 2 | Under such leases , the builder/developer would be responsible for erecting a building or a number of buildings upon a particular site , and detailed provision might be made for the manner of their construction and continuing maintenance , even down to the type of subsequent letting of the buildings which was to be permitted . |
| 3 | No mention in the Greater York Study , no mention in any plan before us of what this reserve might be required for , or where it might be located . |
| 4 | She was fully determined that the Merchiston fortune must end with Benedict — that much she owed to Isabel 's memory — but at least some provision might be found for Theda . |
| 5 | It was unexpectedly suggested by United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , following her three-day visit to the Soviet Union ( from June 7 , and including meetings with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on June 8 ) , that this issue might be left for subsequent negotiation . |
| 6 | At the negotiations , the English made an important concession in saying that the claim to the French crown might be traded for a sovereign Normandy . |
| 7 | Similar concern might be expressed for the continuation or development of geriatric and psychogeriatric services . |
| 8 | There did not appear to be any certainty that the RHA would make capital gain out of the exercise , whether or not such gain might be applied for non-mental health purposes . |
| 9 | Very few of us naturally look like our dogs so a little augmentation might be called for . |
| 10 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 11 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 12 | Secondly , I assumed , partly on the basis of other work , that the criminal law can be understood as a socially valid positive moral order and that , if so , some revision of legal theory might be called for . |
| 13 | Ianthe Broome , Daisy Pettigrew , Sister Dew and one or two others whose names she could never remember , now sat down round the table and began to discuss the final arrangements for the bazaar , which had always been exactly the same and always would be , except that from one year to another a pint more or less milk might be ordered for the teas . |
| 14 | The correspondence of members of parliament was filled with information on the state of health of incumbents in order that timely application might be made for the posts should they die or retire from service . |
| 15 | Nicholson had feared that his hurdling star might be tapped for speed on faster ground than he likes and around this sharpish track , but Mighty Mogul passed this major test with flying colours . |
| 16 | He dropped into a bit of a snooze , which any giant might be pardoned for wanting after so much walking and a bit of eating , never mind a sup of mead . |
| 17 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
| 18 | The Americans hope that the installation of Mr Mesic would bolster Croats and Slovenes who hang back from independence now ; that Mr Markovic and his economic reform would win a reprieve ; and that time might be gained for Serbian opposition to Mr Milosevic to grow . |
| 19 | The criteria that we have suggested in the paper we 've put in for for the discussion session stems from detailed observation and experience of what inward investment of the strategically significant kind might be looking for . |
| 20 | And then , perhaps far back in the dim Permian Age , sufficient harm might be done for the further development of life forms to cease . |
| 21 | A possible ( relatively ) benign explanation might be presented for GPs ' failure to pursue a non compulsory route : that women , whose conventional role involves running the home and family , would be less willing to go into hospital precisely because of their feelings of responsibility for others in the home . |
| 22 | The misspelled client might be forgiven for wondering whether his interests are really being looked after . |