Example sentences of "might be [vb pp] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most verbs which are used of situations where the object — talking strictly of the intensional level and not of the world referred to — does not change its properties ( between the narrow focus on the object phrase alone , and the wider view when it is construed with the verb and the adjective as in ( 22 ) ) will not be suitable ; if a property that might be expressed by an adjective could be present in the wider structural context , then its applicability will not normally be connected with the link between the verb and the noun phrase . |
| 2 | The winner of the big greyhound race this weekend might be decided by a photograph … its the semi-final of the greyhound derby … two local dogs are running … |
| 3 | This leaves around 1400km of post-collision convergence to be accounted for , much of which might be explained by a doubling of the thickness of the Tibetan crust during the past 50 Ma from a ‘ normal ’ value of 35 km to the present 70 km . |
| 4 | The discrepancy in the size of this transcript compared to the 5 kb transcript identified here might be explained by a difference between species . |
| 5 | Failure of a team might be explained by an imbalance of team types , the absence of crucial roles or a mismatch between team role and hierarchical status . |
| 6 | She might be reassured by a test yet is obviously in the high-risk category . |
| 7 | Certainly there seemed little point in giving either side the initial advantage ; invasion by one might be precipitated by an agreement with the other , and if Germany and the USSR came to blows , it would inevitably be on Polish soil . |
| 8 | Nor does he specify what kind of effects might be achieved by a reformulation or explain how it achieves those effects . |
| 9 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 10 | It is unwise to keep medications in a handbag which could be lost or might be explored by a child , with disastrous results . |
| 11 | If you 're able to read the signs and identify an area well used by badgers , you just might be rewarded by a sight like this : a bundle of young badgers at play on their log in the fading light of a summer 's evening . |
| 12 | Greengross ( 1986 ) has suggested that an ‘ intervention order ’ might be granted by a magistrate in these circumstances . |
| 13 | In this book we will be looking at the level at which facilities are provided in electronic hardware , as they might be seen by a system programmer about to implement the most basic software on the computer . |
| 14 | Personal ambition might be served by a bureaucracy , but is perhaps more associated with power culture and person culture . |
| 15 | Both courses of action might be assisted by an Age Discrimination Act which would become the benchmark for policy and practice . |
| 16 | Thus whereas an ambiguous clause , such as ‘ bought as seen , ’ might be understood by a buyer to exclude such liability , it might equally well , as a matter of correct legal interpretation , be held not to have that effect . |
| 17 | A slowing of the heart with relaxation might be monitored by an electrocardiograph ( ECG ) , and a reduction in sweat gland activity monitored using apparatus measuring skin conductance levels ( SCL ) . |
| 18 | Looking at Saul Quatt , Theda could not help feeling that his fondest hope was likely to be that he might be struck by a thunderbolt ! |
| 19 | AWORLDWIDE shortage of kidneys for transplant might be resolved by a system of ‘ rewarded gifts ’ , a leading transplant surgeon and opponent of cash for human organs said yesterday . |
| 20 | Therefore when , in 1926 , the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry ( largely at the instigation of William Beveridge , one of its members ) recommended the introduction of a system of children 's allowances financed by the mining industry itself but with a hint that it might be accompanied by a reduction in wage rates , the Miners ' Federation was only prepared to accept the proposal if financed out of general taxation . |
| 21 | This generally took place at Easter preceded by confession , often in public , in which the social duty of making restitution for sin was stressed ; it might be succeeded by a parish party which played out at its own level the eternal being of love celebrated in the Mass . |
| 22 | An opinion made popular by a Dr David Macbride held that scurvy was due to an inadequate supply of fixed air in the human body , and that it might be cured by a dose of that gas . |
| 23 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 24 | Most documents have many characteristics that might be identified by a searcher as the criterion by which the document would be selected as relevant . |
| 25 | The Report , however , suggests that ‘ There were grounds for thinking that in some cases detective officers were interpreting the law in a stricter fashion than might be required by a court of law . ’ |
| 26 | The second problem is that a lax competition policy might be used by a member state as a substitute for trade policy or industrial policy , to protect domestic producers or to promote export sectors . |
| 27 | Jill wanted to get Bill a birthday present , so she went and found her piggy-bank ; she shook it , but there was no noise ; she would have to make Bill a present This example comes from work in artificial intelligence ( Charniak , 1972 ) which is concerned with the attempt to translate the significance of ordinary utterances into an explicit representation that might be used by a computer to produce " intelligent " responses . |
| 28 | If there 's even one person who might be hurt by a decision , you should never make it . |
| 29 | This is caused by release of carbon dioxide , which gases off providing there is good water turbulence such as might be provided by a waterfall or venturi . |
| 30 | Such loans might be provided by a syndicate of banks including some of the country 's own banks as participants . |