Example sentences of "might be [verb] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the only categories included in the criteria for grants which might be exploited by the arts do not appear to have been designed for this purpose . |
| 2 | The Regulations are presently the responsibility of Building Control Officers within local authorities and it is to them that you should apply if you want to do any work which might be affected by the Regulations . |
| 3 | Sara Maitland says : ‘ I could say something which I thought was warm and friendly , but which might be regarded by the voters of Milwaukee as offensive . ’ |
| 4 | He also pointed out that the apparently prodigious appetites of the clergy might be explained by the droves of tourists and worshippers who ate at Vatican restaurants . |
| 5 | He had been at a ‘ knickers-off ’ party which he heard might be raided by the police . |
| 6 | There are those whose properties would be directly affected , others who might be isolated by the floods , and others who could be affected indirectly through disruption to transport and communications . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems a suitable present for a respectable unmarried lady who might be visited by the clergy . ’ |
| 8 | The Minister said that changes might be made by the trustees only with the approval of the Scottish Transport Group board and also with the approval of those voting at a meeting of members of the scheme . |
| 9 | Even middle management might be frustrated by the restrictions on their authority , the impersonal nature of their organisation , the inability to earn a just reward for their special efforts ( owing to the standardisation of pay and promotion procedures ) and the lack of information about aspects of the organisation which should influence their work . |
| 10 | The influence of party structures had for long been curtailed by the arrangements for selecting chairmen ; arrangements which made it possible for situations to arise where the president , the Congressional party leadership and a majority of the majority party could all be united on a particular issue yet might be thwarted by the whims of an all-powerful committee chairman . |
| 11 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 12 | For example , investors might be attracted by the advantages of a highly liquid market , low transactions costs , easily available short positions , low margins and rapid execution . |
| 13 | Everything else might be changed by the demands of story and of ratiocination — there are clear differences , for instance , between the accounts of that scene in the 1925 poem ‘ Light as Leaf on Lindentree ’ and in Aragorn 's song on Weathertop — but to the vision itself he remained true , working out from it as from the detailed paintings of Lake Mithrim , Nargothrond , Gondolin , etc. , which he made in the 1920s ( see Pictures 32–6 ) . |