Example sentences of "might [adv] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 2 | There were even suggestions that the atoll — an unincorporated territory of the USA , controlled since 1934 by the US military — might eventually be used for the reciprocal destruction of Soviet chemical weapons . |
| 3 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 4 | Why … well pit talk has it that the reigning world champion Ayrton Senna might just be signing for the team next season … if he comes will Nigel go … what 's his future … this is what he told Central South … |
| 5 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 6 | So wrote Llewelyn from Aber ; and between the lines they read plainly that though he might still be arguing for peace he had ceased to believe in it or greatly to desire it . |
| 7 | Consider the dynamic adjustment process which might reasonably be postulated for the monopolistic competition model , paying especial attention to entry and exit . |
| 8 | These berths might also be improved for the build-up phase , by bulldozing earth ramparts to speed the offloading of bulk stores carried by many LSTs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Large sums might also be required for fortifications , especially from 1588 onwards . |
| 11 | Pensions might also be requested for those whose finances had become disordered , and shrewd politicians , like Mungo Graeme of Gorthie , the manager of the Duke of Montrose 's interest in Scotland , knew that time spent asking a pension in the charity roll for the sister of a laird might produce a political return for many years . |
| 12 | The passage of the judicature Act tempted some people to think that damages might now be obtained for innocent misrepresentation . |
| 13 | A politician might even be asked for land grants in the colonies , as Henry Dundas was , on one occasion by Provost John Buchan of Stirling , who requested the favour for one of the former magistrates who intended to settle in Canada . |
| 14 | It looks like a college , and might even be mistaken for a supermarket . |
| 15 | A ‘ notice to warn ’ might well be served for example upon a car manufacturer if it appears that a certain model had a dangerous design fault . |
| 16 | A superficial observer of this piece of jobbery might well be forgiven for commenting : ‘ like father , like son ’ . |
| 17 | And , if they have read the passage , they might well be forgiven for entering it as further evidence , if evidence were needed , in support of their view that evolutionary Socialism is anathema and its proponents the prime enemy . |
| 18 | The main road from Oxford to Bicester ( A43 ) runs dead straight for several miles and might well be taken for a fine piece of Roman road . |
| 19 | In following the same clues as her , he might well be heading for the same destination . |
| 20 | On Jan. 19 , a further report in the UK press quoted " a senior US State Department official " and other experts to the effect that satellite pictures might have been misinterpreted and that the plant might indeed be intended for merely civilian uses . |
| 21 | Admittedly , explaining their achievements is not part of Althusser 's project , and he might therefore be excused for failing to indicate the specific historical conjuncture from which Marxism arose . |