Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne was excited and happy about the baby , but she began to worry that John might be killed before the child was born . |
| 2 | For example , if the patient says ‘ I can not possibly measure my own blood glucose because I am at work all day ’ , the patient might be lost if the doctor were to insist . |
| 3 | While the house in the wife 's sole name with a fixed charge in favour of the husband facilitates the wife 's control of the property , this does not offer her the flexibility to move house that might be incorporated when the house is held by trustees until a specified event ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 4 | The question might be raised whether a surgeon 's callousness is after all even a local violation of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 5 | Even making allowances for these factors , a person might be insulted if the actor makes it plain by his words or conduct that he holds in contempt those ( including the victim ) who do not share his point of view . |
| 6 | The rubric will include data on which a reply might be based and an indication of the tone required . |
| 7 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 8 | Indeed , it might be said that a set of standard terms requires greater care because it will be used for a large number of separate transactions , possibly involving a wide range of goods and/or parties . |
| 9 | This is not wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 10 | This is not a wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 11 | This is not a wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . " |
| 12 | It might be said that the reformulation in [ 13b ] is simply a more theoretical version of the more concrete description of style in [ 13a ] . |
| 13 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
| 14 | ( In fact , it might be said that the use of torture in the ‘ civilised ’ world today is more widespread and certainly much more sophisticated than was the case in the ‘ barbaric ’ Middle Ages . ) |
| 15 | Alternatively , it might be said that the talk about words conveying ideas it not to be taken seriously . |
| 16 | On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business . |
| 17 | It might be said that the analogy between policemen and scientists is incorrect because , while a scientist engages in experiment in order to test a pre-existing hypothesis , a policeman approaches an investigation with an open mind and is , therefore , not vulnerable to bias . |
| 18 | Alternatively , an option to renew might be granted where the tenancy has been " contracted out " of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 19 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 20 | though David Holbrook ( 1973 ) , for one , would not agree — are the Narnia books of C.S. Lewis , but it might be argued that the story told allegorically in The lion , the witch and the wardrobe was told much more successfully in The Bible . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it might be argued that the problem of particular identity , at least as far as perceptual things are concerned , presents no insoluble problems . |
| 22 | While there are some aspects of the redraft where it might be argued that the law has not been accurately expressed , there is no doubt that both its language and typography suggest that there are considerable improvements which could be made to the present drafting and printing of statutes in the UK . |
| 23 | In retrospect , it might be argued that the significance of the liquidity trap was over-emphasised . |
| 24 | It might be argued that the supply of components to factories on a ‘ just-in-time ’ basis might prompt adjacent location in a linked region of manufacturing , but , from reports to date , this does not have to follow . |
| 25 | ‘ Fade ’ is a pharmacological phenomenon in which the response of a steady state system to a given stimulus decreases with time ; thus it might be argued that the cigarette smoking had no effect and that the observed reduction in secretion simply coincided with system fade . |
| 26 | Defensive measures might also be justifiable as being for the good of society as a whole ( i.e. because society has an interest in the efficient operation of the business that might be damaged if the company is taken-over ) . |
| 27 | For those who might be disturbed that the ambience of ‘ live ’ recordings is in appropriate for music of such delicacy , I 'm happy to report that audience noise is minimal . |
| 28 | It might be imagined that an individual with a ‘ lark'-like clock but an ‘ owl'-like life-style or vice versa would have difficulties . |
| 29 | Thirdly , the criticism might be made that the distinction I earlier drew ( in the section on ‘ Autonomy ’ ) — between someone voluntarily being treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , and their being treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desires — is not adequate here . |
| 30 | just to get the general picture , let me an exact period , let's get estimates because we have no idea , er , so estimates might be made or the management costs , four months or six months would you say before anybody moved in ? |