Example sentences of "this might be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait .
2 This might be done by a special ( privileged ) " load control store " instruction , which transfers a set of bit patterns in main Storage to an area of control store .
3 The intention was for students to complete a short initial destinations questionnaire as they approached the end of their course , and it was suggested that this might be done in the last formal course session , or when projects were handed in ( if appropriate ) .
4 This will avoid any delay in making payment to you , otherwise this might be missed until the next reconciliation of the travel accounts .
5 If there is a small degradation of performance when 15 or more machines are in use but otherwise the network is fine , this might be regarded as a breach of warranty .
6 This might be justified as a means of signalling the connection between drunken driving and fatal accidents .
7 This might be explained by the fact that the former category are not the direct employees of the establishment and that their terms and conditions of employment are less subject to regulation by unions .
8 I saw only a little of the country areas outside WA — I hope this might be rectified in the future .
9 Although this might be reinforced by the suggestion , earlier in this chapter , that vision and the ideals fostered by a head can shape the total approach to school management , it is the contingency model and its capacity to take account of turbulence which seem to fit the description of several management approaches in this final decade of the century .
10 An example of how this might be applied to an inventory record would be to control the format of named collections , e.g. ‘ Sloane Bequest , Miscellanea ’ .
11 Another way of looking at this might be to say in a sense there are there are two bits , one is identifying where we are now and identifying in relation to both
12 This might be based on a psychiatric clinic or a voluntary agency such as the Samaritans .
13 The argument for this might be based on the claim that when we speak to someone we are using a ‘ code ’ , and the most efficient codes do not use unnecessary symbols .
14 [ … ] This might be seen as an expression of concern by university mathematicians about the subject socialization of their potential students .
15 For Bateson the operative principle of democracy is " a balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities , In fact , this might be taken as a most apposite description of his own attempt at building a new consensus for English .
16 This might be taken as an informative summary .
17 By the way , I hope this might be considered for the ‘ Star Letter ’ as I find distribution to my local newsagent leaves a lot to be desired — if the distributor has not received enough copies , he does n't get any !
18 ( f ) to demerge a target company ( this might be used as a defence tactic ( see para 18.5.14 below ) ) .
19 How this might be reconciled with the terms of the Maastricht text goes beyond the scope of this article , but it gives rise to the thought that it might even be legitimate for the Community ( given the political will ) to legislate in this area using the general power of Article 235 of the EEC Treaty , which allows the Council , in the absence of more specific powers , to enact legislation which is necessary to achieve the objectives of the Community .
20 This might be resolved with a written constitution and the formation of user committees ; but committee members sometimes fail to comprehend that they represent the whole user body and only put forward their own ideas .
21 Apart from predictable duties , like that of sitting through a performance of The Family Reunion ( a play for which he now had little affection ) , he was asked to crown the Swedish snow queen at the winter festival : he told Robert Giroux that he had hoped this might be combined with the Nobel ceremony itself , so that he could wear ice-skates with his tails .
22 The closest thing to an acknowledgement of what this might be comes at the end of the splendid description of a whale-hunt , which has all the care for technical precision of a Del Giudice ( 71–7 ) , when the old whaler asks the narrator why he wanted to join the expedition that day , whether it was just out of curiosity ( 76–7 ) .
23 This might be interpreted as an indication that it is not his purpose or intention to present a systematic , coherent and consistent Advaitin account of the concept of Truth or God after the fashion of Śankara , the principal exponent of non-dualism , and that what could be said concerning the metaphysical basis of his thought is that although it purports to be Advaitin it does not preclude the possibility of Dvaita , or Dualist , and Viśi ādvaita , or qualified non-Dualist interpretations of the nature of reality .
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