Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we are equally conscious that some colleges may find the pace of development too slow for their needs and are concerned to explore ways in which some of the aims of the Programme might be accelerated for those colleges which wish to develop their provision rapidly . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , she had been forced to agree with Geoffrey , her vicar , when , after a local deanery chapter meeting , he 'd said that a stranger might be forgiven for supposing that the Church of England in south London was staffed by middle-aged ex-lorry drivers , recruited via the Southwark Ordination Course , plus a sprinkling of very young men who had found their accountancy examinations too arduous . |
| 3 | And then , perhaps far back in the dim Permian Age , sufficient harm might be done for the further development of life forms to cease . |
| 4 | He had a premonition that the enemy might be waiting for them . |
| 5 | Triple therapy might be reserved for patients with treatment failure or with suspected penicillin hypersensitivity . |
| 6 | Under such leases , the builder/developer would be responsible for erecting a building or a number of buildings upon a particular site , and detailed provision might be made for the manner of their construction and continuing maintenance , even down to the type of subsequent letting of the buildings which was to be permitted . |
| 7 | She was fully determined that the Merchiston fortune must end with Benedict — that much she owed to Isabel 's memory — but at least some provision might be found for Theda . |
| 8 | No mention in the Greater York Study , no mention in any plan before us of what this reserve might be required for , or where it might be located . |
| 9 | The criteria that we have suggested in the paper we 've put in for for the discussion session stems from detailed observation and experience of what inward investment of the strategically significant kind might be looking for . |
| 10 | Oman is placing an order for three patrol craft with French shipbuilders after weeks of waiting in the hope that a buyer might be found for the Tyneside yard . |
| 11 | Ianthe Broome , Daisy Pettigrew , Sister Dew and one or two others whose names she could never remember , now sat down round the table and began to discuss the final arrangements for the bazaar , which had always been exactly the same and always would be , except that from one year to another a pint more or less milk might be ordered for the teas . |
| 12 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 13 | A case might be made for the Christian church , but there were many more stations than churches , and the railway penetrated cultures which were resistant to Christianity . |
| 14 | A case might be made for this ( although there is no other evidence for it ) and so substantive interference in Ulpian 's text could be taken to be limited to generalization or to the addition of per omnia . |
| 15 | Highly specialised manufacturing equipment , chemical cleanser for photographic equipment , or nuts and bolts for plumbing equipment do not readily lend themselves to sampling , but a case might be made for including small but appropriate gifts in any press pack . |
| 16 | Such a distinction would require fine tuning but an a priori case might be made for the financial reports of the two groups being different . |
| 17 | No small town in Britain can certainly qualify as a centre for the administration of an imperial estate , although a case might be made for including Godmanchester and Water Newton . |
| 18 | It was unexpectedly suggested by United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , following her three-day visit to the Soviet Union ( from June 7 , and including meetings with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on June 8 ) , that this issue might be left for subsequent negotiation . |
| 19 | By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister . |
| 20 | For example , assistance might be given for diversification into tourism , to which Northumberland is ideally suited , as tourism is dispersed , small-scale , labour-intensive industry . |
| 21 | Very few of us naturally look like our dogs so a little augmentation might be called for . |
| 22 | Under the risk theory , therefore , compensation might be awarded for public law wrongs , but it might also be awarded for action which is perfectly legal in the public law sense . |
| 23 | Two pence per half-year might be taken for each cart , and one halfpenny for each pack-horse . |
| 24 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 25 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 26 | Thus a trader might be asked for his price in " American early threes " , meaning CDs issued by American banks with a maturity in the first half of the three month maturity period . |
| 27 | Some messenger services or mail bike companies will do runs based on a supplied mailing list at so much per address and such a service might be used for rushing material to the offices of national daily newspapers Failing such a service an executive or senior secretary in a cab can do the job equally well . |
| 28 | In Conway ( 1990 ) 91 Cr.App.R. 142 ; [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 402 it was held that an identification parade might be called for notwithstanding that an identifying witness claimed to know the suspect , and had identified him by name . |
| 29 | The cynic might be excused for observing that although these ideals should be met , they are impossible to realise . |
| 30 | In such cases a prosecution might be brought for attempted murder — and will succeed if the intention to kill can be proved . |