Example sentences of "[verb] might be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we can sing them and , feel that we 're doing the right thing and go our way but Lord we pray that the words we sing might be the words that we means , and the words that we say might be the things and the , the way we mean to conduct our lives . |
| 2 | One way of tackling the reluctance to read might be the introduction of a hitherto unknown entity in France — the campus bookshop . |
| 3 | There were four Portuguese : a gentleman in a fine lace ruff and blue hose who Sara presumed was Dom João , a weather-hardened man , who she thought might be the ship 's master , and two young lieutenants who acted as a ceremonial guard . |
| 4 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 5 | In the quieter moments Scrabble might be the order of the day . |
| 6 | ‘ As it is , this new crisis they 're having to face might be the thing to push them towards solving their difficulties . |
| 7 | She had doubts about the road but then found herself driving along the grey fortress walls of what she hoped might be the Castello Crocetto . |
| 8 | and we can sing them and , feel that we 're doing the right thing and go our way but Lord we pray that the words we sing might be the words that we means , and the words that we say might be the things and the , the way we mean to conduct our lives . |
| 9 | But , as was suggested might be the case in an earlier article , the procedures played an essential part in producing the circumstances which ultimately rendered her vulnerable to the more informal pressures on her to resign . |
| 10 | — 'It might be the beginning of the end' she said . |