Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not stipulate which animals might be killed to provide immediate food , but environmentalists said the most likely targets would be antelopes and zebras in the Etosha National Park . |
| 2 | In any notification case of this kind the local planning authority will be given an opportunity to decide whether , in their view , the proposal should be advertised so as to give the public a chance to comment , and also to discuss with the department ways in which the proposal might be amended to overcome any objections to the proposed development . |
| 3 | This list has been prepared without a buying or selling perspective and , hence , for practical reasons it might be decided to omit certain terms when acting for either party . |
| 4 | However , often the best way of challenging a dysfunctional attitude is to test out the validity of the attitude , for example a client who believed he could not stand going to a party might be invited to test this belief out by going , for at least part of the time . |
| 5 | I would hope that the vast majority of beer festival organisers take heed of Keith Thomas 's article and try to ensure that quality comes before quantity at beer festivals , then I might be tempted to visit more beer festivals again . |
| 6 | The White Paper recognised that unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants to force them out of the property , which could then be let to new tenants at the higher market rent , and in an effort to prevent this , the harassment provisions of the 1977 Protection from Eviction Act were strengthened and a new right of compensation — civil law damages-was introduced in cases of unlawful eviction . |
| 7 | Also , if bus stations were brought up to the standards , with pleasant lounge cafés , attendants to look after luggage and protection for passengers from fumes and the weather , then even the maniacal travelling executive might be tempted to use public transport . |
| 8 | If a design right monopoly were to be granted to spare parts , manufacturers of cars , washing machines , computers , etc. would be able to control the supply and price of spare parts and might be tempted to charge exorbitant prices . |
| 9 | But there is clearly a newly assertive policy being followed in the White House , and the early exuberance of US politicians when the invasion seemed to be going well has provoked fears that President Bush might be tempted to apply military solutions to Nicaragua and to the war on drugs . |
| 10 | But a librarian , more likely to be an Adonis-type than a Boar or a Goddess , might be tempted to catalogue this book under ‘ Hughes ’ rather than under ‘ Shakespeare ’ . |
| 11 | He might be tempted to blame these fluctuations on the sun or a volcano . |
| 12 | Such a tax would not encourage illegal disposal , and might be adjusted to hit toxic materials harder than those whose disposal is harmless . |
| 13 | Three factors ( size , speed , and groove-pitch ) might be manipulated to make long-playing records . |
| 14 | Tonight Downing Street said that Operation Irma might be extended to include more war victims . |
| 15 | How it might be developed to record different types of behaviour and different types of measurement is shown in Handout 15 . |
| 16 | With an unbroken horse you might try reining back in hand , while a mature horse might be asked to try half- pass for the first time . |
| 17 | EFTA does not want to be a ‘ kindergarten ’ for East European countries embarking on the path to market economies , but the looser 23-nation Council of Europe — to which Hungary has already sought entry — might be asked to play this role once democratic elections are held in individual east European countries . |
| 18 | As to how inspection and certification might be exercised to ensure regulated management from logger to retailer , very little is as yet formulated . |
| 19 | At the sub-national level , the peripheral/least favoured regions might be expected to exhibit lower labour costs relative to the core regions . |
| 20 | This peaking effect was destroyed by boiling the solutions , a process which might be expected to destroy long-chain water polymers . |
| 21 | On both counts these experiments might be expected to show strong disincentive effects on work . |
| 22 | However on the basis of the evidence from the research on the relationship between age and subjects which we have discussed above , it seems likely that non-traditionally qualified students in areas such as science and engineering might be expected to achieve lower levels of success than those in areas such as arts or social sciences . |
| 23 | Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome . |
| 24 | Thus liberal arts courses might be expected to have different aims from vocational or professional ones , theoretical courses will differ from applied ones , and undergraduate courses will differ from those in the same subject at A level . |
| 25 | This module would , Minsky suggests , alone have access to the model ( again possibly false , of course ) of how it itself related to all the other , lower , modules , and it might be expected to have some property of the type we refer to as consciousness or self-consciousness . |
| 26 | They suggested that instead of closure , half of the site of two hospitals might be closed to finance local services . |
| 27 | Unless collective pressure is to be treated as democratic by definition , the only ground for specially associating it with democracy is that democracy might be held to give collective pressure an exceptional legitimacy . |
| 28 | Different parliamentary circumstances might be found to justify different determinations . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , there was speculation that Sun might be forced to make another move like it did with the surprise 33MHz Sparcstation 10 Model 20 , or promise very cheap upgrades of the Model 30 . |
| 30 | Church musicians might be encouraged to attend such courses together with the clergy . |