Example sentences of "might be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also suggests that , in the long term , ISPRA might be turned into Europe 's premier location for big-science machines . |
| 2 | The age of ‘ social Darwinism ’ left no room for a sense of stewardship and encouraged no sympathy for the animal and plant species that might be threatened by humankind 's dominant position . |
| 3 | If DMs continue to be held then the funds might be invested in Germany 's domestic money or securities markets , or alternatively the DMs could be deposited in the euro-DM market . |
| 4 | And some life might be breathed into Labour 's democracy of the dead at last . |
| 5 | ‘ Mephitic ’ might be compared with Fraser 's ‘ ulcerous ’ in ‘ Resentment wells up like an ulcerous vapour ’ . |
| 6 | At the time , however , the Committee — judging that a vital influence over the confused development of credit law had been the strong preoccupation of English law with exactly who owns what — set out two ‘ fundamental points ’ as the basis for its legislative proposals , which might be paraphrased in layman 's language like this : |
| 7 | He considered the matter as he might have done when he was only half a century old in what he still called the ‘ swinging ’ sixties , when lunch for two might be had at Alvaro 's for a five pound note and his column ‘ Jottings ’ by Haverford Downs in the weekly Informer had been described on the wireless as ‘ Max Beerbohm with a social conscience ’ . |
| 8 | A much more plausible explanation might be found in Weber 's distinction ( 1968 : ch . |
| 9 | A clear example of this kind of evidence of change might be found in Labov 's famous analysis of the variable ( r ) in New York City . |
| 10 | An important aspect might be embodied by Baudelaire 's characterization of modernism in terms of ‘ mouvement brusque ’ ( see Berman 1983 : 156ff . ) . |
| 11 | An unreasonable mistake in this context might be described in Pickard 's words as ‘ an easily avoided and self-serving mistake produced by the actor 's indifference to the separate existence of another . ’ |