Example sentences of "who might be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced over his shoulder and Snodgrass , who loved gossip , glanced over his as well , because you never knew who might be listening in an enchanted castle . |
| 2 | An account is given which explains present practices without recourse to justifying the feelings of anyone who might be implicated in the practices . |
| 3 | There are those whose properties would be directly affected , others who might be isolated by the floods , and others who could be affected indirectly through disruption to transport and communications . |
| 4 | ‘ And am I right in thinking that you want to import into the United States of America a person or persons who might be interdicted by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It seems a suitable present for a respectable unmarried lady who might be visited by the clergy . ’ |
| 6 | Beneath them , in France , there existed an ordered and fairly hierarchical structure which saw to the day-to-day defence of the country , from those with wide territorial jurisdictions to those who might be sent to a particular area , town or castle to organise its defence in time of crisis . |
| 7 | and this is where it really matters and really counts , what are the army saying to new recruits who might be going into the careers ' office , army careers ' office tomorrow , |
| 8 | Carrington had been advised to keep himself as private as was possible , as one never knew who might be paid by the Abwehr , and neutrality as a concept was very fraught . |
| 9 | The author of the book Trio ] and Error ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.95 ) which puts the case for those found guilty of the Guildford-related offences is Mr Robert Kee , who might be described as an old-fashioned television-documentary liberal . |
| 10 | They skirted the edge of the open space , keeping to the borders of woodland which had once been landscaped , and Melanie was grateful , for she would have felt too visible , too exposed out on the sea of grass — a sitting target for some marksman , for the arrow of any figure in Lincoln green who might be flitting among the mossy trunks . |
| 11 | If there 's even one person who might be hurt by a decision , you should never make it . |
| 12 | The phase of shock and somatic distress is normally followed by a restless searching , mixed with anger and irritability towards the deceased , and any one else who might be blamed for the present distress . |
| 13 | Nothing too conspicuous : this is broad daylight , and one never knows who might be sitting in the next taxi , stuck in a queue along Knightsbridge . |
| 14 | If you do not advertise more widely your vacancy will not come to the attention of other potential employees who may not be actively looking for a job but who might be attracted by an advertisement which clearly specifies someone like them . |
| 15 | It unites six established British artists who might be linked in a wider definition of The School of London . |