Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take another example : Radioactivity in the surface and coastal waters of the British Isles , 1977 might be converted to an alphabetical description such as : Water pollutants Radioactive materials — Great Britain or into a classification notation such as 628.16850941 . |
| 2 | Equally , seasonal workers might be engaged on a casual basis , on fixed-term or performance contracts , or even on open-ended contracts . |
| 3 | From any clutch it 's possible that one or two would n't hatch , and if food was short a little chick might be killed by an elder sibling ( or by its mother so that the stronger chick would survive ) . |
| 4 | That too might be characterised as a courageous move — but nothing like as courageous as that of James Burke and his cohorts in deciding that the right man to dig IBM out of its hole was outsider Louis V Gerstner Jr . |
| 5 | As a result , there came an increased acceptance of the view that persistent , and unacceptable , inequality and want might be built into the economic system unless the state made key interventions along the lines of the German model . |
| 6 | The same relation between pure and applied social psychology can be continued in a social psychology , which might be built around a universal conception of social representation , with or without a rhetorical emphasis . |
| 7 | A team from the Centre assessed the route to be taken by Shell 's North Western Ethylene Pipeline to determine how archaeological sites close to its path — from Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth to Stanlow in Cheshire — might be affected by the proposed construction work and how potential damage might be mitigated . |
| 8 | Thus , to take a very simple illustration , X Ltd might be formed with a nominal capital of £10,000 , divided into 10,000 £1 ordinary shares . |
| 9 | In practice , even the threat that a merger might be referred to the MMC was often sufficient to induce the companies to drop their merger proposals . |
| 10 | ‘ Final salary ’ might be defined as the average salary of an employee 's last three years of employment . |
| 11 | The isolation of Oct-11 cDNAs from a thymus library suggested that Oct-11 might be expressed in a lymphoid cell type . |
| 12 | Now and then there were proposals for reforming the entire system , and it was even suggested that the 12 constellations of the Zodiac might be named after the 12 Apostles . |
| 13 | I was afraid I might be shot by a startled sentry . |
| 14 | The top players might be exposed to the ruthless rigours of international rugby four times a season , with perhaps a fortnight between games . |
| 15 | The presence of former United States President Jimmy Carter as an observer during the December 1990 elections and at Aristide 's inauguration was an indication of Haiti 's re-entry into world affairs ; the Jamaican Prime Minister , Michael Manley , said that he hoped that the country might be incorporated into the Caribbean Community and Common Market ( CARICOM ) . |
| 16 | In particular , an investigation is proposed to establish how HNCs and HNDs might be incorporated into the general SVQ framework at level IV . |
| 17 | In that context it had long been accepted that the settlement of individual claims might be incorporated into an overall package . |
| 18 | It was his passionate conviction that sarvodaya , which might be regarded as a practical expression of Truth , could only be effected by means of ahi sā , and the votary of ahi sā would be prepared to sacrifice himself in order to realize this ideal . |
| 19 | Presumably men of modest means would scarcely have qualified , but only 502 were worth £20 and upwards , and 406 had £40 or more , a figure that might be regarded as a reasonable minimum for a substantial businessman . |
| 20 | Killing then might be regarded as a moral duty in certain circumstances in spite of the instinctive horror we might feel about the destruction of living beings . |
| 21 | Should a man 's life succeed in influencing and converting others then that might be regarded as a true and valid form of evangelism . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's gone through what might be regarded as a quiet spell this season , ’ said Clough . |
| 23 | This line of reasoning then raises the question of what might be regarded as an accurate description of the language of ordinary children at different ages . |
| 24 | Jade however consists of a tangled mass of needle crystals , tightly packed together but with poor adhesion at the interfaces and might be regarded as an inorganic equivalent to a briar pipe or a bamboo root . |
| 25 | The random production might be regarded as the normal state of affairs , periodic production occurring through a rather special mechanism . |
| 26 | Many databases include terms from controlled indexing languages and also support searching on the text of the record , thus offering what might be regarded as the best of both worlds . |
| 27 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 28 | Accordingly , it is necessary to define what should be considered as bribery in the context of the period , rather than as it might be regarded in the twentieth century . |
| 29 | PEOPLE know , in advance , that their already high workload might be increased during a particular period , so they can plan accordingly ? |
| 30 | There is another indirect way in which an award of damages might be obtained against a governmental body which would not be available against anyone else . |