Example sentences of "[noun prp] might be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Stifling her yawns and fighting to keep her eyes open during the Litany of the Saints , she wrestled with the problem , terrified that Tristram might be caught trespassing but unable to think of any way to warn him . |
2 | When Molla Fenari heard of this he , in his turn , expressed the hope that he might be cured , that Haci Ivan might be blinded , and that he , Molla Fenari , might pray over Haci Ivaz 's corpse . |
3 | Edward might be seeming to ignore these , but in fact he must be concerned . |
4 | Travis might be going to pieces because he thought Rosemary had finished with him , but , all too clearly , he did n't deep down believe that they were through . |
5 | Sultan Orhan , for example , is reported to have asked Taceddin Kurdi for a fetva on the legality of breaking an agreement over booty made with one of his commanders , while Murad I is shown just alter his accession consulting the ulema on the question of whether , in the face of threats from the Anatolian rulers , troops collected for the purpose of the against the unbelievers in Rumeli might be used to meet the threat in Anadolu first and the consequently delayed . |
6 | One effect of this increased optimism over was a noticeable cooling of relations between Syria and the PLO , largely as a result of Palestinian fears that Syria might be tempted to negotiate a separate peace deal with Israel . |
7 | I try not to think what Andy might be doing to them . |
8 | Admiral Lord Keith encountered difficulty with an important freeholder who had requested , through an intermediary , that a young man named Maitland might be admitted as a cadet into the college at Woolwich . |
9 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
10 | The plum tasks for which the Great and Good might be chosen are Royal Commissions or Committees of Inquiry , the device by which governments buy the days when faced with demands for change , political embarrassment , or questions too deep for quick political answers . |
11 | Marianne McCall might be hiding her true colours from the men , but it seemed she felt no need to do the same where Shae was concerned . |
12 | Yet in one sense even the United States might be said to have been part of an economic system controlled by Europe down to 1914 in that she remained a capital-importing nation , and that capital came from Europe . |
13 | On the American side the multilateralists believed that protectionism in the United States might be weakened if they could win a demonstrable success against Imperial Preference . |
14 | Hence , the United States might be described as being oriented toward a mix of the empirical and the rationalist , albeit with the former being clearly the more dominant of the two . |
15 | This is so even though territorial rights previously granted by the predecessor colonial power to third States might be considered as of over-riding importance for a new State , and as an unacceptable continuing incident of prior colonial rule . |
16 | erm Jean might be going out to see that new Marks & Spencer 's somewhere , there 's a new big one being built out |
17 | And , without really meaning to , she found herself wondering what Pete McCarthy might be doing . |
18 | Lisa might be living at my house . |
19 | Being treed by the great wonder-rabbi Shmuel ben Issachar might be written off as an occupational hazard ; being trapped — on an assignment officially aborted-by an undead amateur is unforgivable . |
20 | Out of nowhere the idea came to her that Lionel Marcus might be watching . |
21 | Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living . |
22 | They argue that Superfund might be improved , but should not be swept away . |
23 | It was suggested that Ken Lawson might be asked to write an article on Group Relations and that a report might be given of a course in Grangemouth on ‘ Creative Listening ’ . |
24 | ‘ Half a century ago ’ , wrote Arthur Young in 1804 , ‘ Norfolk might be termed a rabbit and rye country . |
25 | It did not usually occur to the client that DPR might be prospering from his losses . |
26 | Where Sir William might be seen as a diffident , slightly academic figure Labour 's Bruce Kent dives into campaigning with enthusiasm . |
27 | If he claimed to remember nothing , Murray might be suspected of stealing the letter — unless he also claimed that it was a forgery ; there had , indeed , been several of those . |
28 | Angelica Kauffman might be compared with Mozart — an infant prodigy overendowed with artistic gifts — but while music could have been a profession for a man , it would have turned Angelica Kauffman into a performer . |
29 | The call to the Navy or RAF might be made indirectly through Forward Observation Officers or others but the effect was the same , if not more devastating . |
30 | Through a wider acceptance of Catalonia 's progressive outlook , ‘ Catalanists ’ insisted , all of Spain might be modernized . |