Example sentences of "might [adv] [verb] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if one rejected Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say something is white ? ’ one might still hold there to be conditions which have to be satisfied for a colour-word to be used meaningfully . |
| 2 | No one could be sure where lay the Terra Australis Incognita which Ptolemy had postulated , and which Mercator had argued was a necessary balance for a spherical world , without which the whole planet might simply topple over to be lost among the stars . |
| 3 | Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all . |
| 4 | Should she prove to be young and pretty this might even turn out to be a pleasure . |
| 5 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 6 | But it might then fail dismally to be causally adequate . |
| 7 | Jimmy chartered two Canadair CL44 cargo aircraft and in order to get the left and right stabilisers and rear fuselage sections on board , had to cut much of the wreckage — without , of course , destroying any evidence that might subsequently turn out to be required . |
| 8 | So , paradoxically , smaller black holes might actually turn out to be easier to detect than large ones ! |