Example sentences of "[pron] might be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rose said : ‘ I think I might be the killer . |
| 2 | He seemed to think I might be the tea lady . ’ |
| 3 | One minute someone might be the donkey . |
| 4 | Without going into matters which might be the subject of the inquiry , can the Secretary of State confirm , first , that there have been recurrent problems with the signalling at either end of the line , as a result of the damp ; and , secondly , the system in case of an emergency and a red light was for the relevant engine drivers physically to get out of the cab and use a telephone near the tunnel ? |
| 5 | The primary purpose of our defence policy is , therefore , that it should protect us , our allies , and our friends against the whole spectrum of possible aggression and military threats , from small local action which might be the beginning of larger and more dangerous adventures through ‘ nuclear blackmail ’ to nuclear war . |
| 6 | The key principle underlying the assessment of Grant Related Expenditure is to combine estimates of the basic unit cost of providing a service , as judged by Central Government , with estimates of the basic need for the service , which might be the population requiring the service or the physical requirements , such as road mileages or numbers of dwellings . |
| 7 | Important , too , although not always easy to evaluate , is the evidence which we may call literary , not merely the chronicles , but rather the tracts , pamphlets , newsletters and even poetry through which people expressed their ideas and views , as well as their emotions , on contemporary issues and problems , which might be the need for government to be better managed , hope of peace , or the criteria according to which society 's military leaders should be chosen . |
| 8 | There are several waterfalls , any of which might be the site of their discovery . |
| 9 | ( However , throughout this discussion I have ignored those psychosomatic disorders which might be the consequence of what we could call ‘ somatic externalization ’ . |
| 10 | However , the Department ( of Education and Science ) had little information about the working of the Act in this phase of education and offered no information about the numbers of children who may be receiving special education under the age of five nor of the number of children who might be the subject of statements below school age . |
| 11 | ‘ And who might be the others ? ’ |
| 12 | Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds . |
| 13 | There was an elderly woman , who might be the housekeeper , mending clothes , and two young ladies , who seemed to be learning a language with dictionaries . |
| 14 | You see , if you were to make it public now , you would empower those people who might be the victims of this cut to articulate their views and to lobby and to be part of this process , rather than just passive participants . |
| 15 | He only knew that he had lost her , and she might be the liar , cheat and whore he thought she was , or the injured innocent she claimed to be — he did not care which , for whatever she was she had taken his life and his hopes with her . |
| 16 | UNDER her wide-brimmed hat , crowning a buttoned-up two-piece suit she might be the world 's smartest potato picker . |
| 17 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes there might be the temptation to leave it until the next day if the weather is bad or your car will not start . |
| 19 | Now although we can differentiate the products er agricultural products , we can only do that at the very final stage in processing , by and large , where there 's much less scope after product differentiation right , at the er the raw material erm level , which is where most agricultural trade continues er , most trade in agricultural products is in the raw commodity , not the refined commodity the refining , there might be the processing and the manufacturing , tend to occur in the country of consumption and not in the country of production a number of complicated , erm political reasons erm alright , but the but because there is n't the scope for product differentiation alright , we have n't witnessed an increase in intra industry trade in agricultural goods whereas we have done for manufactured goods because there is scope for intra industry trade er yeah scope for product differentiation . |
| 20 | ‘ They might be the watch — ’ |
| 21 | THEY might be the underdogs but Sunder land have proved in the past that when it comes to Wembley finals they can rise to the occasion . |
| 22 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 23 | So when Ray Neal of Thringstone Aquatics had some Victorian Cichlids for sale Nancy decided they might be the answer . |
| 24 | Any suggestion that they might be the cause of problems is simply denied : it is declared that they could not be . |
| 25 | On the back of its thorax it has two flap-like sideways extensions of the chitinous shell that look as though they might be the rudiments of wings . |
| 26 | More senior posts were employed as tools of patronage at a higher level , for they might be the object of the ambition of a substantial freeholder with his own political interest , whose support might be of value to the Administration directly . |
| 27 | But it is useful anyway to speculate about possible findings and so some possible explanations ; the characters who use irony might be similar in type to Austen herself ( in class , gender , age ) ; or they might be the characters who function as heroes and heroines in the novels . |
| 28 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 29 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 30 | It might be the monarch if we bred the right kind of king … |