Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be said that the reformulation in [ 13b ] is simply a more theoretical version of the more concrete description of style in [ 13a ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | Alternatively , it might be said that the talk about words conveying ideas it not to be taken seriously . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it might be argued that the problem of particular identity , at least as far as perceptual things are concerned , presents no insoluble problems . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In retrospect , it might be argued that the significance of the liquidity trap was over-emphasised . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As an example , it might be claimed that in ‘ hutch ’ was different ( perhaps in having shorter duration ) from in ‘ hush ’ or ‘ Welsh ’ , ; or it might be claimed that the place of articulation of in ‘ watch apes ’ is different from that of in ‘ what shapes ’ . |
| 17 | It might be objected that the doubleness is just a trick of Porfiry 's . |
| 18 | It might be expected that the percentage thinking that health had improved since their parents ' time would increase with age . |
| 19 | At the rime of bringing up a young family it might be expected that the woman 's role would be primarily in the home . |
| 20 | It might be supposed that the loss of his ships , with Grágás his flagship among them , was the greatest single blow that a sea-lord such as Thorfinn might receive . |
| 21 | From first principles it might be deduced that the amount of erosion will increase with increasing precipitation , provided that the surface remains bare , but that this will ultimately be reversed by the development of vegetation which will protect the surface from increasing erosion with increasing rainfall . |
| 22 | It might be thought that the concept is a new one . |
| 23 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 24 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 25 | It might be thought that the clerk of the council has a nobler sound than director-general , for example . |
| 26 | It might be thought that the subject 's apprehension of his own brain is more immediate and more holistic than any external knowledge , however complete , and that this explains the experiential difference between the two kinds of knowledge . |
| 27 | It might be thought that the analogy is readily extended to cover this situation , but in fact a whole range of new phenomena arise . |
| 28 | It might be thought that the ideal of protected expectation is a distinctly democratic ideal , because it proposes that coercion be used only when authorized by procedures to which the people have consented . |
| 29 | It might be thought that the crime of incest which covers parties who consent in the legal sense should not extend further than serious acts of penetration . |
| 30 | It might be thought that the actor 's art also reflects the continual struggle between participants in a social situation to share their private worlds through public media of language and gesture , what Arthur Brittan ( 1973 ) refers to as ‘ negotiation of meaning ’ . |