Example sentences of "might be shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for instance , a temple with eight columns might be shown on a coin as having eight , six , four or two ; it was sufficient to show that it had a columned portico . |
| 2 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 3 | The 1988–89 Committee was particularly concerned — as , indeed , were the Speaker and many Members — about the possibility that demonstrations from the public gallery or grave disorder on the floor of the House might be shown on television ; it emphasised that ‘ deliberate misconduct designed to secure televised publicity ought not to achieve its aim ’ . |
| 4 | The evening sun was later identified with Atum or might be shown as a ram , thus linked to Khnum , the creator god of Elephantine , or to the Ram of Mendes , called the Ba or soul of Osiris . |
| 5 | Or the connection might be shown by the situation of the property , such as land , in this country . |
| 6 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |