Example sentences of "[pron] might [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , I might be of some help settling the young gentleman . ’ |
| 2 | This tells us nothing about the degree of harmony in the village — everyone might be at each other 's throats — but it does indicate that within the village there is a reasonably close-knit social pattern , rather than a disparate group of individuals who happen , coincidentally , to live in the same locality . |
| 3 | Some interesting and useful things can be done in the way of improving specific item search systems , but only if the catalogue has considerable " knowledge " of bibliographical items ( for example , one can envisage a catalogue which could say , " We have n't got Joseph Matthews on online catalogue screen displays , but there is an article in Library trends which might be of some interest " ) . |
| 4 | If you have any information which might be of special interest to our readers please send it to the Presbytery . |
| 5 | An excellent comparison of Athenian and Spartan habits and philosophy is given by Thucydides , in the mouth of Pericles ( ii.39 ) : ‘ our city is open to the world , and we have no periodical deportations in order to Trevent people observing or finding out secrets which might be of military advantage to the enemy . ’ |
| 6 | Among the many ‘ thank-you ’ letters I wrote , I sent one to Alan Shell of the Humanist Association , who replied , ‘ We are very glad our letter was of help to you and you will be interested to know that I propose to send copies of your letter , with your name deleted , to our funeral officiants in the hope that they will take courage from it and help any others who might be in similar difficulties . ’ |
| 7 | Babies who might be in severe pain soon after birth are certain to be severely diseased babies . |
| 8 | Her grandfather had suggested , without conviction , that she might be of some use in the farm office . |
| 9 | There was no evidence that Berowne had started his own meal — that in itself might be of some help in deciding on the approximate time of death — but he had apparently either cajoled Harry into the church with the promise of a meal or , more likely , had supplied an obvious and immediate need before he was ready for his own share of the supper . |
| 10 | I thought you might be with that answer yes . |
| 11 | ‘ We might be on other planets . ’ |
| 12 | No matter how serious an infringement there might be of that act they are not subject to any sort of criminal offence . |
| 13 | There is no reason ( as there might be with spontaneous speech ) why the patient should choose to utter the isolated content words here and not the isolated function words . |
| 14 | Okay there might be in all sorts of ways , in terms of equality , in terms of socialism , it 's , it 's all a bit dubious erm but the other reason for taxing down is that , let's face it , the majority of peasants as we , as we saw last week are still poor and if the Communist Party is wanting to maximize its revenue , if it was gon na say okay we 're not gon na tax anybody at under six or eight hundred erm you , you 're gon na take out er half the population and you would have to get that income by taxing the rich even harder and that would be a disincentive . |
| 15 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 16 | ‘ the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or … upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 17 | Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ? |
| 18 | We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information . |
| 19 | Yeah well there 's a problem with that because they might be on different project number mighten they ? |
| 20 | For the modern Christian , however , there is often no awareness of the geographical and political relation between these places , how far they might be from each other , how long a journey from one to the other might take . |
| 21 | Although they might be in major shops soon , they 're presently only available from |
| 22 | Two very important indexing journals not always used as much as they might be by social researchers are the British Humanities Index and the Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin . |
| 23 | As a result of which , she had to acknowledge ruefully , everything in her wardrobe , while it might be of good quality , was strictly practical . |
| 24 | I have just prepared a paper for my Executive Committee on this and I have enclosed a copy in the hope it might be of some value . |
| 25 | So therefore it might be of more interest to practitioners if I take some typical enquiries and describe the way they are tackled . |
| 26 | When this is not the case , as with non-Western cultures ( and as it might be with deaf people ) , then the theories produced may be of limited value . |
| 27 | Quilts were what you lay on to sunbathe that summer , not for warmth on beds , but slung for lounging comfort as it might be on some Damascus rooftop . |
| 28 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 29 | Where sickness rates are high it might be in both employers ' and employees ' interests for the company to introduce private health cover , where swift treatment may mean an earlier return to work . |
| 30 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he murmured , and then suggested that he might be of further help to her . |