Example sentences of "might be [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1724 Wade reported that of the 22,000 fighting men who , he estimated , might be raised in the Highlands , 12,000 were active or potential Jacobites , some with hidden weapons , and that the best way to keep them in check was with independent companies of loyal Highlanders , under their own Whig but Gaelic-speaking officers . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | British representative John Robson was concerned that the ban might be extended to the North Sea and the Atlantic , possibly affecting British fishing plans for the future . |
| 4 | * UK Environment Secretary Michael Howard has warned that some EC environmental directives might be repealed during the UK Presidency . |
| 5 | A fall-back plan , if the opening attack failed to take the Isle of Wight , called for the combined fleet to anchor in Torbay , from which raids might be made on the Channel Islands and Plymouth . |
| 6 | Indeed , the a cappella early-music scene in England might be compared to the Whitehall Civil Service , being sustained almost entirely by graduates from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 7 | It has been held by the Court of Appeal that the privilege against self-incrimination can be invoked in this context where , accepting the facts as alleged by the plaintiff , there is a reasonable apprehension on the part of the defendant that he might be prosecuted in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | A similar if less conspicuous story might be told of the Reed conglomerate . |
| 9 | This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit . |
| 10 | That money was invested as might be expected of the Tysons . |
| 11 | A US $/DFL; option is listed but volumes are disappointing , as might be expected with the Netherlands in the Exchange Rate Mechanism and liquid D-mark contracts available in Chicago and Philadelphia . |
| 12 | There was little in the way of negotiation or managed change of the sort which might be expected from the Cockburn model . |
| 13 | Oman is placing an order for three patrol craft with French shipbuilders after weeks of waiting in the hope that a buyer might be found for the Tyneside yard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We both argued that the levels of er housing development in Craven , Harrogate and to a lesser extent perhaps Amblet Hambleton should not be constrained , so as to reduce erm the the steady trickle if I can describe it as that of migration from the West Yorkshire conurbation to those areas , in perhaps er l looking at the different proposal for the new settlement which might be located in the Leeds York corridor . |
| 16 | Stephen said he might be going to the Murray . |
| 17 | Marshall wondered , first , whether NPVs for investment to increase market share would always be positive or negative as might be inferred from the BCG matrix . |