Example sentences of "[pron] might [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
| 2 | I can do this best by way of a personal anecdote , which might be called the Incident of the Taxman and the Philosopher . |
| 3 | A score can be computed which might be called the listener communication repair index . |
| 4 | But we approach that independent question using a different set of principles , among which might be found the principle just mentioned , that any member of the corporation who is entitled to share in its profits must share in its responsibilities as well . |
| 5 | Within his framework , pollution , which might be considered a cost imposed on society but not paid for by the company creating the pollution , results from a deficient system of property rights . |
| 6 | But super super person we 've got , unfortunately she might be offered a job at prison to take their sewing on and then she ca n't do ours . |
| 7 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 8 | One might be forgiven the thought that Wagner 's theoretical position had at this point compounded too many incongruities to make criticism necessary . |
| 9 | The Cycling Council badly needs some income , and I suggest that we might be given a percentage of the revenue , say 20% , in addition to the initial £75 . |
| 10 | They might be given no time to put down territorial roots . |
| 11 | It might be argued a contrario that the term " shop assistant , draper 's assistant etc. " which is recorded for some of the bridegrooms , suggests that " grocer does indeed refer to a shopkeeper . |
| 12 | It might be called a polyamino acid , because the basic units are amino acids . |
| 13 | Point 1 made by Bowley is a more general and fundamental one than the other three and deserves special comment ; it might be called the principle of parsimony . |
| 14 | Graham Taylor is hoping that Santa wo n't give away any goals to England 's World Cup opponents — or he might be given the sack . |
| 15 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 16 | Or he might be handed a file and a tiny silver tool with which to clean her toenails while she dozed in a chair . |
| 17 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 18 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 19 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 20 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 21 | Yet here was express permission to do so ; what might be called a farter 's charter . |
| 22 | By setting his move in the Thirties , and by turning that ambiguously seductive decade into what might be called a laide époque , Visconti discovered a necessary , hitherto unremarked fact about movie nostalgia : that it functions best when directly linked either to the history of the cinema ( as in The Damned , Helmut Berger 's Dietrich impersonation ) or history in the cinema ( newsreel footage , for example ) . |
| 23 | The Court went on to say that , in the case before it , there was no need to decide whether and to what extent Article 6(1) required a decision on the very substance of the dispute — what might be called a right to a judgment . |
| 24 | And in Dworkin it is evident in his views that ‘ government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life … [ and ] political decisions must be , so far as possible , independent of any particular conception of the good life , or of what gives value to life ’ . |
| 25 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 26 | However , there is an important difference between what might be called the doctrine of empiricism , and scientific theory , which must be empirical in the sense that statements can be deduced from theory which are about particular events and which can be checked by observation . |
| 27 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
| 28 | Romantic suspense is what might be called the literature of the night side of human experience . |
| 29 | As will be considered further , it is not at all clear , however , that the newly formulated offence entirely cures what might be called the policeman defect . |
| 30 | Evaluation , then , is the process of specifying what might be called the transfer value of ideas . |