Example sentences of "they might be [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | Constance followed close behind , clutching at his shirt in her terror that they might be separated in the crush . |
| 3 | No other ship could stand up to their guns , but some sailors thought they might be defeated by the new weapon of the torpedo . |
| 4 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet all their study should have been directed to this end , so that they might be consumed with the love of God as well . |
| 7 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 8 | They might be moving into a premises that 's already er , there now . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 11 | Gesticulating wildly in a crowded space , so that others are frightened that they might be struck by the defendant , is not punishable unless it can be shown that the defendant was at least aware that his conduct might be having such an effect . |
| 12 | They might be re-appointed for a further term but , even then , anyone in his or her late 60s is unlikely to reign long . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But they might be drawn to the sound of a group of females socialising — think that this is something worth investigating — and help us to lure them out again . ’ |
| 17 | Such firms were likely to have particular characteristics : they were probably relatively labour-intensive , so labour was an important part of their costs ; or they might be located in an area where labour costs were rising particularly fast , or where labour availability was a problem . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) the relative ignorance of teachers as to available materials and the means by which they might be acquired through the project and other county services |
| 19 | And they must do that as the possibility increases that they might be sucked into a wider Balkans war . |
| 20 | There was a nationalist fear that they might be confined to an internal Northern Ireland settlement , but this has been denied . |
| 21 | In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ? |
| 22 | Neither the stevedores , the lightermen , the coal trimmers nor the seamen easily accepted the possibility that they might be submerged under an advancing tide of labourers more unskilled than themselves . |