Example sentences of "might prove " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the reader can be made to feel that , on closer inspection , the country 's politics might prove to be antics too . |
| 2 | Colleagues stopped talking to me , afraid no doubt that being on the wrong side of the new Director might prove contagious . |
| 3 | We have already received two ideas , which might prove useful in the workshop . |
| 4 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |
| 5 | They cited the Joint Declaration 's promise of ‘ a legislature constituted by elections ’ , and warned that without democracy , the autocratic machinery of colonial government might prove far less benign in China 's hands . |
| 6 | In Oslo yesterday , diplomats warned that the Nobel committee had a reputation for security and the leaked forecasts might prove wide of the mark . |
| 7 | Last week , she outraged her Commission colleagues by suggesting that the government 's paper , which has unanimous backing , might prove irresistible . |
| 8 | Eliot , who was interested in mana and orenda , worried that Durkheim 's theory of totemism in terms of religious force might prove only ‘ an admission of the inexplicable ’ . |
| 9 | But Peter Walker and Jim Prior , also well-known doubters , were retained ( Prior until September 1984 ) , no doubt for fear that they might prove troublesome on the back bench . |
| 10 | Nor is it sensible to argue , as the Treasury has , that a European system of central banks in charge of a single currency might prove more inflationary than a fixed exchange rate system where each monetary authority competed to provide a stable benchmark of value . |
| 11 | If the system 's charter allowed for a bank governor to be shot at dawn for every month the inflation rate exceeded 1 per cent , it might prove even more counter-inflationary than the Bundesbank . |
| 12 | Jimmy said he really enjoyed playing , but his slight worry about it was that at £13.99 it might prove expensive for the unemployed . |
| 13 | Some pundits were , rather foolishly , speculating that he might prove to be better than all of them . |
| 14 | But its reluctant , even remote , tone is that of bureaucrats anxious to distance themselves from what might prove to be no more than fashionable scientific nonsense . |
| 15 | The Board of Admiralty had been well aware since 1955 that the US Navy 's Polaris-armed submarines might become the capital ships of the future , and might prove to be more invulnerable as mobile launch platforms for the nuclear deterrent than the US Air Force 's Skybolt , if it too was successfully developed . |
| 16 | Weary with the struggle to be understood , and fearful , like Solzhenitsyn after him , that to collect his prize in Stockholm might prove to be a one-way journey , Pasternak declined his honour , writing to Khrushchev that , for him , exile would mean death . |
| 17 | It is difficult for you to foresee at the beginning of your programme just how you will feel , what things will happen , which goals might prove harder than anticipated . |
| 18 | He sat , shaking , before his a.i. for a few minutes , realising that , whatever he 'd thought before , the following procedures might prove even more risky than the persona transfer itself . |
| 19 | Initially , it seemed that Sale might prove victorious . |
| 20 | Profits could reach £10m this year — implying a multiple of almost 30 at 93p — and even that might prove over-optimistic under a Labour government . |
| 21 | Combermere is the 8-1 favourite with Ladbrokes for the Scottish National at Ayr on Saturday , but with expected soft ground , Martin Pipe 's Riverside Boy ( 10-1 ) might prove the value . |
| 22 | Now it hopes that the rest of Europe might prove a similarly fertile source of work . |
| 23 | We were , however , not encouraged to fraternise , as our Establishment considered that the Yanks , being naïvely and pressingly inquisitive , and perhaps not possessing an inherited sense of the paramount importance of secrecy in wartime , might prove a security risk . |
| 24 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |
| 25 | I suppose I must have been intending to explain to Mr Farraday how I would thus be able to explore an option which might prove the ideal solution to our present small problems here in this house . |
| 26 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 27 | He was our biggest danger in the end , although I thought it was going to be Tom 's four-ball partner Bert Yancey who might prove the biggest threat . |
| 28 | He might prove to be useful but would have to be handled carefully . |
| 29 | He had n't the vicious streak that showed in his brother , and might prove a very good team-member . |
| 30 | For very heavy sailors , however , these might prove to be the most suitable straps as putting the weight further back might sink the tail of the board . |