Example sentences of "might be [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But disposal sites would have to avoid areas containing resources such as manganese nodules which might be exploited in the future . |
| 2 | Marines were honour-bound to board a hulk , to cleanse any threat it posed , and to recover any valuable or enigmatic pieces of ancient technology from millennia earlier which might be encysted in the wreck like pearls held in a lethal clam . |
| 3 | The terms of reference of the Northern Ireland Panel were to commission a programme of research on Northern Ireland within a budget of £350,000 ( 1980 Survey Prices ) ; to consider how the social science research capacity for work on this area , particularly within Northern Ireland , might be enhanced in the commission of that programme ; to commission a register of recent and current research on Northern Ireland ; to liaise with the Northern Ireland Office and other relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant researchers in Great Britain and other countries with a view to the possibility of setting up comparative studies ; and to advise researchers in Northern Ireland , who wish to seek finance from the ESRC general research funds or from other agencies . |
| 4 | He might be killed in the fight ; or his father might … |
| 5 | The examples given suggest a flexible scheme whereby criterion statements might be amended in the light of pupils ' difficulties and the identified difficulty factors might provide foci for teaching . |
| 6 | High-ranking officers , notably Hamilton himself , estimated that as many as 50,000 lives might be lost in the operations : in the event every surviving man was taken safely away . |
| 7 | some tobacco might be lost in the exchange process ; |
| 8 | We were very upset when we found out that a dual carriageway might be built in the fields past the wild duck pond behind our home . |
| 9 | Constance followed close behind , clutching at his shirt in her terror that they might be separated in the crush . |
| 10 | The problem that we are confronted with here has two aspects , and might be expressed in the form of the following two questions : ( a ) Is it possible to bridge the difference between relations and properties by treating all relations as " relational properties " ? , and ( b ) Can " relational properties " always and unconditionally be regarded as intrinsic to the terms that have them ? |
| 11 | He was unable to comment on questions about whether an IRA cell might be operating in the area . |
| 12 | For the literate community such , along with extracts from earlier written sources , might be incorporated in the lapidaries which served to accumulate and transmit beliefs about different substances . |
| 13 | That night he prayed devoutly that he might be upheld in the purity which he had so far , maintained , in spite of the temptations and evil example which encompassed him on all sides . |
| 14 | In December 1724 Wade reported that of the 22,000 fighting men who , he estimated , might be raised in the Highlands , 12,000 were active or potential Jacobites , some with hidden weapons , and that the best way to keep them in check was with independent companies of loyal Highlanders , under their own Whig but Gaelic-speaking officers . |
| 15 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 16 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |
| 17 | The worry that the law in text-books for students , which might be unofficial , might be applied in the decision of cases in court is well-expressed in the letter " Pastoralis " addressed to the bishop of Ely , where the pope gives voice to his concern about the use of forged decretals . |
| 18 | The past ten years have seen something of a revolution in text analysis , and in our understanding of how the results of such work might be applied in the classroom . |
| 19 | At present there is no evidence for IP 3 Rs on the inner nuclear membrane , so the function of any InsP 3 that might be generated in the nucleus remains a problem . |
| 20 | I saw only a little of the country areas outside WA — I hope this might be rectified in the future . |
| 21 | This should ensure an adherence to a timetable which otherwise might be lacking in the case of an agreement between the parties not supported by a binding contract . |
| 22 | These ideas were discussed with the maths and computing adviser , who Subsequently wrote to all schools suggesting that the microcomputer might be Placed in the library and that it would be advisable for schools to have their school librarians attend in-service courses on microcomputer use which this adviser was organizing . |
| 23 | The medical qualifications which at first gave him distinction tended later to restrict his outlook on what might be achieved in the field of occupational health . |
| 24 | If as we indicated , Grice 's theory of meaning-nn is construed as a theory of communication , it has the interesting consequence that it gives an account of how communication might be achieved in the absence of any conventional means for expressing the intended message . |
| 25 | She was scared of what might be hiding in the shadows but she was terrified of her subconscious . |
| 26 | The surveyor will pull up carpets and crawl into the loft , looking for defects that might be missed in the valuation survey . |
| 27 | They went to the races so that he could study form , so that Lily might be seen in the outfits chosen with such care in London in February . |
| 28 | The way that this has been done in the past is the subject of the next chapter ; the way that it might be done in the future is the justification for this book . |
| 29 | Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker . |
| 30 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |