Example sentences of "might [be] made [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 2 | Penn , Topham , Burgess and Benezek were asked to deal with any proposals that might be made to the committee regarding a building that would be suitable as a hospital , and Messrs Shepperson and Reynolds of Oxford Street were appointed ( for what immediate purpose is not clear ) booksellers and stationers to the institution . |
| 3 | Alternatively payment might be made to the head of the department concerned , or money might be spent not so much in buying the office itself as on the influence necessary for securing it . |
| 4 | This shows that in 1986 the judges , with the concurrence of the Inns , resolved and confirmed that from 1987 disciplinary powers over barristers should be exercised in accordance with the provisions of that constitution and that no alteration might be made to the power or composition of disciplinary tribunals without the consent of the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 5 | Another point that might be made about the relationship between the ‘ form-words ’ of grammar and the ‘ full words ’ of lexis is that it follows from the kind of auxiliary , context-complementary function of grammar being proposed here that the proportional occurrence of these words will vary in different kinds of discourse . |
| 6 | Similar comments might be made about the speaker variable of social ambition used by Douglas-Cowie ( 1978 ) to account for linguistic variation in a Northern Irish village . |
| 7 | Under such leases , the builder/developer would be responsible for erecting a building or a number of buildings upon a particular site , and detailed provision might be made for the manner of their construction and continuing maintenance , even down to the type of subsequent letting of the buildings which was to be permitted . |
| 8 | As long before as November 1966 , Jenkins had asked the Advisory Council on the Penal System to consider what changes and additions might be made in the range of non-custodial penalties that were available to the courts . |
| 9 | For instance , if someone knew that John and Mary always talk a lot when they go out , then that inference might be made in the face of example ( 4 ) , leading to a further set of mappings in which both John and Mary map into the same role-slot ( both are agents in a talking schema ) . |
| 10 | At one time execution might be made against the debtor 's person , and he could be kept in prison indefinitely in default of payment . |