Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The personnel file might be examined to list all the employees who meet the following criteria : |
| 2 | He did not stipulate which animals might be killed to provide immediate food , but environmentalists said the most likely targets would be antelopes and zebras in the Etosha National Park . |
| 3 | In any notification case of this kind the local planning authority will be given an opportunity to decide whether , in their view , the proposal should be advertised so as to give the public a chance to comment , and also to discuss with the department ways in which the proposal might be amended to overcome any objections to the proposed development . |
| 4 | This list has been prepared without a buying or selling perspective and , hence , for practical reasons it might be decided to omit certain terms when acting for either party . |
| 5 | However , often the best way of challenging a dysfunctional attitude is to test out the validity of the attitude , for example a client who believed he could not stand going to a party might be invited to test this belief out by going , for at least part of the time . |
| 6 | Among those who might be invited to bare all for the show are actress Antonia de Sanchez — ex-minister David Mellor 's former lover — and ‘ Miss Whiplash ’ Sarah Dale , Chancellor Lamont 's former tenant . |
| 7 | I would hope that the vast majority of beer festival organisers take heed of Keith Thomas 's article and try to ensure that quality comes before quantity at beer festivals , then I might be tempted to visit more beer festivals again . |
| 8 | The White Paper recognised that unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants to force them out of the property , which could then be let to new tenants at the higher market rent , and in an effort to prevent this , the harassment provisions of the 1977 Protection from Eviction Act were strengthened and a new right of compensation — civil law damages-was introduced in cases of unlawful eviction . |
| 9 | Also , if bus stations were brought up to the standards , with pleasant lounge cafés , attendants to look after luggage and protection for passengers from fumes and the weather , then even the maniacal travelling executive might be tempted to use public transport . |
| 10 | If a design right monopoly were to be granted to spare parts , manufacturers of cars , washing machines , computers , etc. would be able to control the supply and price of spare parts and might be tempted to charge exorbitant prices . |
| 11 | One might be tempted to dismiss such an enquiry as irrelevant to our discussion : human beings have Newton and Einstein , whereas animals do not , so human knowledge of physics can not be relevant to enquiries about chimps , beavers , or bees . |
| 12 | But there is clearly a newly assertive policy being followed in the White House , and the early exuberance of US politicians when the invasion seemed to be going well has provoked fears that President Bush might be tempted to apply military solutions to Nicaragua and to the war on drugs . |
| 13 | But a librarian , more likely to be an Adonis-type than a Boar or a Goddess , might be tempted to catalogue this book under ‘ Hughes ’ rather than under ‘ Shakespeare ’ . |
| 14 | He might be tempted to blame these fluctuations on the sun or a volcano . |
| 15 | Such a tax would not encourage illegal disposal , and might be adjusted to hit toxic materials harder than those whose disposal is harmless . |
| 16 | Three factors ( size , speed , and groove-pitch ) might be manipulated to make long-playing records . |
| 17 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 18 | You might be trying to do this via their thoughts , beliefs , attitudes , feelings or by directly attempting to influence their behaviour . |
| 19 | On an official visit to the Soviet Union on March 11-16 President Özal broached the subject of a Black Sea economic co-operation zone , which he said might be extended to include those Soviet republics in which Turkic languages were spoken . |
| 20 | Tonight Downing Street said that Operation Irma might be extended to include more war victims . |
| 21 | Partly , these relate to fears that state policy ( especially social security and housing policy ) might be helping to create such families ; and partly to disapproval of the way in which absent parents are able to evade their ‘ responsibilities ’ to provide for their families . |
| 22 | How it might be developed to record different types of behaviour and different types of measurement is shown in Handout 15 . |
| 23 | She only dreaded that she might be asked to give some positive details of the scheme she and Andrew supposedly envisaged . |
| 24 | With an unbroken horse you might try reining back in hand , while a mature horse might be asked to try half- pass for the first time . |
| 25 | Mozart was anxious to receive another commission to write an opera ; he knew that there was a possibility that he might be asked to write one of the operas for the Naples carnival season , but as yet had had no confirmation . |
| 26 | EFTA does not want to be a ‘ kindergarten ’ for East European countries embarking on the path to market economies , but the looser 23-nation Council of Europe — to which Hungary has already sought entry — might be asked to play this role once democratic elections are held in individual east European countries . |
| 27 | As to how inspection and certification might be exercised to ensure regulated management from logger to retailer , very little is as yet formulated . |
| 28 | Nobody , he once remarked , believed him when he said it was an attempt to create a world in which a language agreeable to his own private aesthetic might be made to seem real , and even his childhood seems to have been enlivened by inventing as well as learning remote languages . |
| 29 | ( a ) which sets out in summary form the most important information derived from your research and the main lessons to be learned from your interpretation of that information ; ( b ) which spells out the policy implications of your findings and , where appropriate , the follow-up actions that appear to be necessary ; and ( c ) which indicates what further research might be undertaken to pursue some of the findings uncovered by your own research . |
| 30 | At the sub-national level , the peripheral/least favoured regions might be expected to exhibit lower labour costs relative to the core regions . |