Example sentences of "might be [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simpler way of looking at laicisation might be to say that institutional Christianity has lost some of its functions : most education passes from church to state ; so too do medicine , welfare and human counselling . |
| 2 | Indeed it might be said that one year on this course is worth four or five years of experience in the field . |
| 3 | In addition , it might be noted that British fascism had not substantially changed the attitudes of Britain 's major political parties and it could be argued that there was still much equivocation in government as to whether or not Mussolini or Hitler represented the biggest threat . |
| 4 | It might be noted that 6 teams report a membership of more than 20 people . |
| 5 | If there are exclusively private events , in the sense that they are in principle , and not just empirically , inaccessible to more than one observer , it might be argued that such events could not be intelligibly claimed , let alone shown to be , subject to any laws , and this means that no rational explanatory model could be constructed for them . |
| 6 | Indeed , it might be argued that subsequent elite and pluralist theories are nineteenth- and twentieth-century reaction to this analysis . |
| 7 | It might be argued that this approach downgrades sexual intercourse without consent where little violence or none at all is used . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it might be argued that this issue was overpriced and that the nation was able to sell an effectively overpriced collection of assets . |
| 9 | It might be argued that this scheme puts the claimant who at present has a choice whether or not to use Ord. 53 , at a disadvantage because under the new scheme he or she would have to seek leave and would possibly be subject to very restrictive time-limits . |
| 10 | As it might be argued that this microflora is more likely to exert pathogenic or protective effects in the intestine than the lumen flora , we were interested to determine the adherent and hydrophobic properties of our mucosal E coli isolates by techniques comparable with those used by others studying faecal isolates . |
| 11 | It might be argued that this function has been coopted by such purposive ( indeed , allegedly manipulative ) schemes as the Youth Training Scheme . |
| 12 | This case did not concern the availability of coercive remedies against the Crown and it might be argued that this statement is of no relevance in that context . |
| 13 | It might be argued that this device , although an ingenious reference to the converted barn 's former purpose , is not a practical feature in a dwelling because even double-glazing will not prevent the excessive heat loss and cold radiation caused by such large windows . |
| 14 | Although it might be argued that this difference is due to the nature of the complexed metal ion ( iron in the cleavage reaction , cobalt in the footprint ) an alternative explanation is that bleomycin does not bind tightly to ( AT ) n sequences , and that these are efficiently cleaved during a transient interaction . |
| 15 | It might be assumed that forcible resistance to power without right must itself be legal and not revolutionary ; but in every case there seems no recourse except to force of some kind . |
| 16 | For example , a child might be told that certain behaviours will result in the loss of free time ; if the child misbehaves , the penalty creates a contingent relationship in which the child has less time to play . |
| 17 | In the light of certain of the clinical evidence it might be expected that one factor influencing the direction or degree of perceptual asymmetry obtained in laboratory experiments among left handers would be their degree of sinistrality . |
| 18 | If the key processes are biochemical , then it might be expected that each memory will have its specific representation in terms of the synthesis of unique proteins or other molecules . |
| 19 | It might be expected that subsequent cohorts of elderly people will be more likely to have children , and be survived by them , but other social and economic trends may reduce their ability and willingness to assume caring responsibilities for aged parents . |
| 20 | It might be thought that such policies spring from a desire , on the one hand , to ensure the free flowering of individual enterprise , and on the other , to guard against the tyrannies of " big business " . |
| 21 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 22 | Although it is easy to appreciate that the polymer must be sufficiently wettable to sustain a coherent layer of tear fluid , it might be thought that all problems associated with wettability would be overcome by the presence of water in the material . |
| 23 | It might be thought that Marxist accounts can offer a ready and all-encompassing account which explains away the weaknesses on pluralist and elitist accounts . |