Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , seasonal workers might be engaged on a casual basis , on fixed-term or performance contracts , or even on open-ended contracts . |
| 2 | That too might be characterised as a courageous move — but nothing like as courageous as that of James Burke and his cohorts in deciding that the right man to dig IBM out of its hole was outsider Louis V Gerstner Jr . |
| 3 | The same relation between pure and applied social psychology can be continued in a social psychology , which might be built around a universal conception of social representation , with or without a rhetorical emphasis . |
| 4 | Thus , to take a very simple illustration , X Ltd might be formed with a nominal capital of £10,000 , divided into 10,000 £1 ordinary shares . |
| 5 | The isolation of Oct-11 cDNAs from a thymus library suggested that Oct-11 might be expressed in a lymphoid cell type . |
| 6 | I was afraid I might be shot by a startled sentry . |
| 7 | It was his passionate conviction that sarvodaya , which might be regarded as a practical expression of Truth , could only be effected by means of ahi sā , and the votary of ahi sā would be prepared to sacrifice himself in order to realize this ideal . |
| 8 | Presumably men of modest means would scarcely have qualified , but only 502 were worth £20 and upwards , and 406 had £40 or more , a figure that might be regarded as a reasonable minimum for a substantial businessman . |
| 9 | Killing then might be regarded as a moral duty in certain circumstances in spite of the instinctive horror we might feel about the destruction of living beings . |
| 10 | Should a man 's life succeed in influencing and converting others then that might be regarded as a true and valid form of evangelism . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's gone through what might be regarded as a quiet spell this season , ’ said Clough . |
| 12 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 13 | PEOPLE know , in advance , that their already high workload might be increased during a particular period , so they can plan accordingly ? |
| 14 | There is another indirect way in which an award of damages might be obtained against a governmental body which would not be available against anyone else . |
| 15 | Waste paper might be obtained from a friendly printer . |
| 16 | He comes from a musical family and might be faced with a difficult decision before he is much older . |
| 17 | Or royalist subjects might be faced by a fellow subject who argues that the monarch should revive these former powers . |
| 18 | However , these are not attributes of an individual as such , which for fairness might be viewed as a necessary condition . |
| 19 | Below are some examples of how the different note-systems might be applied to a specific topic . |
| 20 | In no. 15 indeed , we might be dealing with a prefabricated panel ( Neal 1976b , 249 ; Neal 1981 , no. 75 ) : this is suggested by the cutting of the lion 's tail by the bordering line . |
| 21 | It was once believed to be a very young star , still condensing ; then it was suggested that we might be dealing with a Black Hole ; now it seems more likely that the eclipsing component is a hot bluish star surrounded by a cloud of opaque material . |
| 22 | The thought that he might be dealing with a supernatural force did not enter his mind . |
| 23 | The nineteenth century work of Pavlov on the conditioned reflex generated vain hopes that psychology , and in particular learning , might be studied by a rigorous methodology closely allied to physiology . |
| 24 | Beneath them , in France , there existed an ordered and fairly hierarchical structure which saw to the day-to-day defence of the country , from those with wide territorial jurisdictions to those who might be sent to a particular area , town or castle to organise its defence in time of crisis . |
| 25 | The increase of tissue type plasminogen activator antigen and activity in normal duodenal mucosa might be caused by a different vascularisation of the mucosa of this tissue , because tissue type plasminogen activator is expressed mainly in endothelial cells of vessels . |
| 26 | The Labour party might be looking to a new future , but it was not going to forget its ancient roots . |
| 27 | What economic security there might be depended on a strong overlordship . |
| 28 | Information might be presented in a distorted manner . |
| 29 | Four , five , even six or seven reversioners might be appointed for a single place ; and , while all might have been appointed by the King initially , this queue of hopefuls stretching into the future certainly deprived him of choice when the office became vacant . |
| 30 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |