Example sentences of "might [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
| 2 | Some lenders were already refusing to give money for areas which they thought might eventually be included in the list . |
| 3 | There were even suggestions that the atoll — an unincorporated territory of the USA , controlled since 1934 by the US military — might eventually be used for the reciprocal destruction of Soviet chemical weapons . |
| 4 | His aim might unkindly be described as the creating of rococo tragedy with Aristotle 's support . |
| 5 | An undergraduate class of 70–100 students could , for example , so dominate the use of a plotter that other staff and students might effectively be excluded from the use of the device . |
| 6 | Particular services are examined by two writers closely involved with implementation : Nick Raynsford looks it recent developments in policies on housing , and David Mallen considers how education might effectively be used as a key instrument of social improvement . |
| 7 | Given their present configuration , Opposition Front-Bench Members might better be described as a hot dog . |
| 8 | He was pressed into the ranks of the northern army , ‘ whereby he might somewhat be instructed of the difference between the sitting quietly in his house , and the travail and danger which others daily do sustain' . |
| 9 | On the one hand he must cope with routines where the demand is for precise obedience to established instructions and on the other hand he might suddenly be faced with a need to respond in a creative manner totally outside any instructions . |
| 10 | Thinking and perceiving , which might naturally be attributed to an incorporeal mind , are simply complex motions in matter . |
| 11 | Anyone with good eyesight would certainly have seen the riders , but to someone like Dame Elizabeth their presence might only be betrayed by a flash of colour . |
| 12 | It was agreed that this might best be achieved by a series of dinners to launch development projects of the University . |
| 13 | This might best be done by a judicious selection of quotations which teachers would be guided to study in detail . |
| 14 | For she had actually been engaged in the very pleasant task of deciding which room in her new house at Far Flatley might best be converted into a nursery when a messenger had come from Frizingley with the awful news . |
| 15 | It is possible that after analysing certain European markets it becomes apparent that your objectives might best be met by a start-up venture . |
| 16 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 17 | For example , it suggests that Quadrant 1 might best be left to the ‘ scientists ’ , with ‘ cultivate ’ instead of ‘ manage ’ being the modus operandi ( Breton and Gold , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ By this means , the peaceful penetration of foreign markets , a state that possessed all the outward political attributes of independence and power might nevertheless be robbed of the internal , material , politico-economic bases of such independence and power . ’ |
| 19 | Bevin was torn between fears of a resurgent Germany in its own right and of a Germany which might somehow be drawn into the Soviet orbit . |
| 20 | They might thus be characterised as the two Ugly Sisters who through their actions succeeded in making the British economy the Cinderella of the industrialised world — and the USA could be cast as the Bad Fairy who ensured that the Ugly Sisters always got their way . |
| 21 | Rather , as the polls came to trouble the Tories , the ‘ troubles ’ suddenly became of interest — purely because it appeared the Conservative Revolution might just be sustained with the assistance of that unlikely revolutionary , James Molyneaux , leader of the Ulster Unionists . |
| 22 | The latter , though , might just be assimilated to the factors that the subject has to take into account under operant conditioning . |
| 23 | Now it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that during the intervening twenty-five years the lord had bought out most of the freeholds , which , with few exceptions , must have been very small , and might just be identified with the sixteen ‘ Farme Landes ’ . |
| 24 | At least one small nineteenth-century factory in Dentorn , Greater Manchester , as an area noted for the manufacture of hats , was built with certain architectural features included so that it might easily be converted into a terrace of houses . |
| 25 | A junior Defence Minister attempted to explain that a bomb might easily be planted in a barracks : ‘ Anyone could walk in as long as they were carrying a package which did not look suspicious . ’ |
| 26 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 27 | The message from gays and lesbians living in rural Ireland was one of a sense of isolation which might aptly be tackled through the medium of film , which has the potential to act as a focus for the many people geographically isolated and thus tongue-tied by virtue of their isolation . |
| 28 | I can readily imagine a state of circumstances under which a husband might deservedly be punished with the penalty attached to rape . ’ |
| 29 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 30 | Devotees of the Hitchcock film will be gratified to hear that Buchan 's book is even more chock-full of incident , cross-country chases , gung-ho and derring-do : a stirring monument to the days when a man of action might still be possessed of a stiff-upper-lipped charm and accomplishment . |