Example sentences of "they might [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The pleasure of experiencing literature that " joyous thing " were intended to elevate the student into an affective domain where they might be imbued with a higher moral tone .
3 They might be moving into a premises that 's already er , there now .
4 92 per cent of students provided their names and addresses so that they might be contacted for a follow-up postal survey planned for Spring 1985 ( 571 students ) .
5 They might be re-appointed for a further term but , even then , anyone in his or her late 60s is unlikely to reign long .
6 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 .
7 The complexity of these relations , and the manner in which they might be used as a model of dynamic mechanisms to extend the concept of objectification from a simple dialectical cycle , is evident in Klein 's discussion of infantile hallucinatory gratification .
8 By the end of the war the Colonial Office was accustomed to thinking synoptically about Africa , to weighing with unaccustomed confidence and delusive clarity the large forces at work there and the ways in which they might be accommodated within a system of administration .
9 And they must do that as the possibility increases that they might be sucked into a wider Balkans war .
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