Example sentences of "might become [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born with a combined weight of 7½lb , they were separated after doctors feared the twin with the malformed heart might become desperately ill , forcing an emergency operation . |
| 2 | Independent Producers may not have been a particularly well-managed production outfit but the filmmakers had developed sufficient self-discipline to ensure that , while the films might become increasingly expensive , they were always tightly constructed and realized the potential in their subject matter . |
| 3 | The risk that this information might become generally available and affect his future ability to get credit is too great . |
| 4 | The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public . |
| 5 | It might become just the thing to have a plant standing in a four and a half inch pot which contains a cool five grand in shredded tenners . |
| 6 | By such means — so Eisenhower optimistically noted on 8 March 1956 — Egypt might become progressively isolated among the Arabs . |
| 7 | As in the 1940s , this assertiveness was directed towards allies as much as enemies , on the principle that today 's ally might become tomorrow 's enemy , and vice versa . |
| 8 | What perhaps struck her the most was that , despite all , many of them appeared to be happy , while she , Sally-Anne , who could if she wished command the most luxurious life a woman could dream of , was most desperately unhappy , and had no idea of how she might become otherwise . |
| 9 | Moreover , provision had been made for any firm that might become financially insolvent ; in this way , systemic risk was largely averted . |
| 10 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 11 | He procured his wife to sign the mandate for the joint account without explaining to her , and without her understanding , that she might become personally liable for a future overdraft on the joint account . |
| 12 | Love is the Grand Unified Force ; and , just as when we watch a good movie , we might become so emotionally involved that we forget it is ‘ only a movie ’ , it is our feelings which make life appear to be so real . |
| 13 | An account executive working on the business of a merchant bank might become so interested in financial matters that he moves over to his client 's advertising department , but as a general rule , the chances of rising to the top are greater in an agency . |
| 14 | It was as if he had never raised the possibility that she might become so much more to him than his personal assistant . |
| 15 | An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture . |
| 16 | The risk of injury might become so great that the timid fighters , which never get hurt because they always run away first , might then be at an advantage . |
| 17 | Will there come a time when that might become so acute that the Minister would be prepared to consider an opt-out as opposed to an opt-in donor system ? |
| 18 | He added : ‘ Although use of such devices is not at present a real problem in terms of its effect on law enforcement and road safety , the Government is aware that it might become so in the future . ’ |
| 19 | The prone position is not used for elderly patients or those with severe perceptual problems who might become severely disorientated , with increased flexor spasticity . |
| 20 | We are looking at ways in which the internal management of local authorities might become more effective . |
| 21 | Social mobility and elite circulation might increase , and the ruling group might become more heterogeneous , but government must remain oligarchic . |
| 22 | In the 148 pages of this judgment lies quite priceless advice to the industry about how it might become more clever in the same ambitions that gave birth to this clumsily worded advertisement . |
| 23 | Vague notions about the tourist benefits of the monarchy might become more fully articulated , in order to combat contrary republican notions . |
| 24 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 25 | Ah computational modelling is easier for me to present to you but then the role of context might become more important so you can appreciate it , in which case I shall give you that first . |
| 26 | Er but what I become , I thought you might become more confrontational but you did n't so so you dug a hole for yourself that you could 've dug out of you sat in there but I think you handled that quite well , but there are people like me out there who think they know it all and will have a go at you . |
| 27 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 28 | Rather they are more concerned to instil discipline , directly and indirectly on those people who are no longer controlled by the soft discipline machine at work , and who might become growingly resentful that they are being made to pay the price of the economic recession . |
| 29 | What begins by looking just a little off parallel might become wildly different . |
| 30 | These fears are especially strong where man himself might become directly involved . |