Example sentences of "might be [vb pp] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mounted on a white horse and crowned with the tiara , the pope , accompanied by high-ranking church officials , the cardinals and abbots , the civil officers , the prefect and the senator of Rome , the nobles , and the consuls and rectors of the papal cities processed through the whole city from St Peter 's to the Lateran so that the new pope might be seen by the people . |
| 32 | People who could not afford litigation ( because they could not pay the difference between their costs and the taxed costs recoverable ) or who could not afford the risk of litigation ( because costs awarded might not be recoverable or because they might lose ) might be assisted by the scheme . |
| 33 | If he were to lie flat , associated reactions might be stimulated by the pressure of the couch against the back of his head and upper back . |
| 34 | The shape of a hill might be altered by the construction of earthworks , or even taking off a pointed peak . |
| 35 | By applying the 27.6% Grampian ration to the above figures , we are able to estimate the extent to which the top market destinations in Table 3 might be altered by the inclusion of whisky . |
| 36 | Similarly , to deal with the earthquake protection requirements at Cruas , more stringent than at most of the other sites , without having to modify the standard model , the power station was built on neoprene bearing pads capable of taking out a large part of any acceleration that might be imparted by the ground . |
| 37 | Debts due to her might be collected by the husband ; and if that was done , of course the money was his . |
| 38 | Although the cost of acquiring television advertising might be obviated by the facility of free air time through public service announcements in some countries , considerable resources are still required to produce the content . |
| 39 | ( For example : ‘ Everyone is creative ’ and ‘ I 'm not creative , might be bridged by the belief that ‘ I 'm different from other people . ’ ) |
| 40 | ‘ It seems a suitable present for a respectable unmarried lady who might be visited by the clergy . ’ |
| 41 | As it stands , classical Freudian theory should therefore predict that sleep might be disturbed by the prevention of dreaming , but that any untoward effects would be from the prevention of restorative sleep , rather than the prevention of dreaming per se . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | KLM 's share of the $3.65bn buyout is considerably smaller than BA 's $750m participation in United , but some analysts have suggested regulators might be swayed by the fact that the airline 's staff will control the company . |
| 44 | It is possible ( although not necessary ) , however , that other aspects of an animal 's behaviour toward a stimulus might be determined by the value of α . |
| 45 | There is a hint here that latent inhibition might be determined by the extent to which the target stimulus has consistent consequences — a notion inherent to the theory ( proposed by Pearce and Hall ( 1980 ) ) that will be discussed next . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Diffusion of NO through the submucosa might be facilitated by the formation of a stabilising adduct with a carrier molecule such as cysteine , or a thiol containing protein such as albumin . |
| 48 | Carrington had been advised to keep himself as private as was possible , as one never knew who might be paid by the Abwehr , and neutrality as a concept was very fraught . |
| 49 | The political right is attracted by workfare because it resents the idea that people might be paid by the state to do nothing . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit . |
| 52 | Viscount Simonds stated at p408 that : The language of section 38 [ of the FA 1938 ( now TA 1988 , s672 ) ] and particularly of Sub-section ( 7 ) , and of section 41 [ now TA 1988 , s681(1) ( a ) ] , makes it clear beyond all doubt that any settlement , wherever made and whatever foreign element might be imported by the residence of settlor or trustees or the forum of administration , is caught by its provisions if the income arises in the United Kingdom . |
| 53 | However , the structure of attitudes does not only comprise the explicit justifications and criticisms which might be advanced by the attitude-holder . |
| 54 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 55 | The teacher 's demonstration might be countered by the retort that other things besides chalk leave white traces on a blackboard . |
| 56 | That is , there is an imputed income that might be proxied by the market wage required to buy in the domestic work of the wife or , more appropriately , the necessary compensating variation ( the minimum sum acceptable to compensate for the loss of the services of a non-(market) working wife ) . |
| 57 | You only use the path along the cliff in bad weather or if there is a possibility you might be trapped by the tide . |
| 58 | Otherwise , he argued , many Germans might be seduced by the lure of a neutral , but unified Germany which would inevitably be susceptible to Soviet influence . |
| 59 | Or the connection might be shown by the situation of the property , such as land , in this country . |
| 60 | The frequency with which campaigns were organized in the 1340s , 1350s and 1370s and the need to provide substantial forces for the defence of English-held castles and towns encouraged the nobility to maintain permanent forces which might be augmented by the use of sub-contractors when necessary . |