Example sentences of "might [be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some forms ( Turrilites ) adopted the helical spire , and were it not for the obligatory suture lines it might be possible to mistake these species for large gastropods . |
| 2 | If we could be sure that everyone in the community was equally generous , it might be possible to finance social services by announcing how much it would cost to run the Health Service per head in the coming year and then leave it to individuals to post an appropriate sum to their local health authority . |
| 3 | Presumably you also believed that it might be possible to negotiate some form of multilateral disarmament in the region ? |
| 4 | Mauss had suggested that by an exhaustive process of observation and recording , it might be possible to establish unchanging laws of human behaviour . |
| 5 | So who might be available to fill this role : |
| 6 | the searcher may be the end user , possibly approaching the search in some ignorance of his real requirements or of the literature that might be available to meet those requirements . |
| 7 | If , however , one wished to explore the immediate outside it might be necessary to examine specific aspects in detail . |
| 8 | If it is warranted it might be necessary to put some limit on the amount which can be shifted during excavation procedures ’ , with Dr Nowlan saying the line between prospecting and mining had to be drawn somewhere . |
| 9 | Since a low rate of detection is a major encouragement to corporate crime , it might be necessary to pursue proactive policies such as deploying state spies and informers , entrapping corporate offenders , and strongly encouraging ‘ whistle-blowing ’ or ‘ grassing ’ . |
| 10 | Hence rationalisation made sense , but , in addition , it might be necessary to develop international partnerships as well . |
| 11 | When an agreed standard of performance does not exist it might be useful to compare present performance with some previous base period ( e.g. the same month last year ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I only thought it might be useful to address this gentleman in his own tongue , ’ said the wizard gently . |
| 13 | Er I very much hope so er that my Noble Friend will recognise what does seem to be the prevailing view in this House on , on your all quarters and all parties and er and will indicate that on most of the points of controversy , not just the but most of them , the Government is prepared to think again , he may even feel that it might be prudent to defer further consideration of the committee stage of this Bill er after today 's sitting er er for a little time and when discussions could and should take place between those who hold different views and er his own very considerable power conciliation er could be used . |
| 14 | It might be profitable to pursue this idea further : the novel not as communication , not as production , but as play . |
| 15 | Thus , for instance , if a business has a particular customer with whom it will do a lot of business , it might be appropriate to negotiate special terms for all contracts between the business and that customer . |
| 16 | THE man heading the fight by Scottish councils against any water sell-off yesterday seized on comments by the shadow Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , in which he acknowledged Labour might be unable to remove private water companies after the next election . |
| 17 | But if the ground of challenge was unreasonableness , then a wider range of affected persons might be able to demonstrate sufficient interest because the notion of unreasonableness defines the limits of legal action ( and in one sense everyone has an interest in the government acting legally ) rather than the limits of individual rights . |
| 18 | Before I pay a lot of money to try and get this problem sorted out , maybe you can tell me how I might be able to control this problem . |
| 19 | Yes , well , it 's just work thinking about , you might be able to eliminate that risk . |
| 20 | It means we might be able to give higher doses , with less side effects . |
| 21 | ( One formed the impression that the Government was genuinely anxious about the precariousness of its policies at this time and was afraid that determined opponents might be able to sabotage these policies by questioning them through the news media . ) |
| 22 | One of the cooks might be able to do kosher meals , another halal food , depending on the client group . |
| 23 | Boasts from DEC that its Alpha RISC is at least 1,000 times scalable , are beginning to look like pure hubris : maybe they might be able to snap eight processors together on a bus eventually , but reportedly all its got now is four and supposedly that 's not working too well . |
| 24 | A good lawyer , who reads carefully , ponders meanings and is prepared to discuss difficulties , might be able to see this point in the problem even though he had read nothing upon it . |
| 25 | Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) . |
| 26 | We might be able to design other viruses that deliver tumour suppressor genes to prevent cancer . ’ |
| 27 | Although no commentator expected Duke to defeat Bush , many acknowledged that he might be able to generate sufficient support to embarrass the President . |
| 28 | we might be able to help we might be able to generate some ideas between us |
| 29 | My decision has been not to breed from her , but I 'm still sending letters to colleagues who specialise in genetics and orthopaedics , hoping that they might be able to shed some light on the significance of what I unexpectedly found . |
| 30 | We have been unable to discover what all this apparatus is for and wondered if you might be able to shed some light on the matter ? |