Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
| 2 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 3 | The Court went on to say that , in the case before it , there was no need to decide whether and to what extent Article 6(1) required a decision on the very substance of the dispute — what might be called a right to a judgment . |
| 4 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 5 | Obviously this is highly selective , and has an uncertain relationship to non-documentary reality ; this might be called the problem of ‘ rose-tinted documentation ’ . |
| 6 | Point 1 made by Bowley is a more general and fundamental one than the other three and deserves special comment ; it might be called the principle of parsimony . |
| 7 | Romantic suspense is what might be called the literature of the night side of human experience . |
| 8 | I can do this best by way of a personal anecdote , which might be called the Incident of the Taxman and the Philosopher . |
| 9 | And in Dworkin it is evident in his views that ‘ government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life … [ and ] political decisions must be , so far as possible , independent of any particular conception of the good life , or of what gives value to life ’ . |
| 10 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
| 11 | However , there is an important difference between what might be called the doctrine of empiricism , and scientific theory , which must be empirical in the sense that statements can be deduced from theory which are about particular events and which can be checked by observation . |
| 12 | I have in mind two especially : the first involves what might be called the impossibility of desire , the second the notion of desire and/or identity as involving an ineluctable splitting . |
| 13 | The most important requirement is to improve for all musicians what might be called the infrastructure of opportunity . |
| 14 | The Cycling Council badly needs some income , and I suggest that we might be given a percentage of the revenue , say 20% , in addition to the initial £75 . |
| 15 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 16 | The English nation , wrote the parliamentarian soldier Walter Blith , ‘ might be made the paradise of the World , if we can but bring ingenuity into fashion . ’ |
| 17 | The development of cholangitis as a late complication occurred only in patients in whom a sphincterotomy was not carried out and this might be considered a prerequisite in all patients in whom an endoprosthesis is inserted as long term therapy . |
| 18 | To this might be added the impact of Roman period agricultural activity on the landscape in the form of fields , hedges and roads . |
| 19 | But super super person we 've got , unfortunately she might be offered a job at prison to take their sewing on and then she ca n't do ours . |
| 20 | A shift in emphasis back to the rural areas was manifested by what might be termed an urbanization of the countryside . |
| 21 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 22 | In short , the MDC has presided over some successes , but not over what might be termed the regeneration of Liverpool 's docks . |