Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insisted that this was a voice with characteristic qualities which might be exploited to some purpose on the air . |
| 2 | An undergraduate met by chance on the campus walkway might be treated to one of his brilliant , spontaneous tutorials , the kind normally only dreamt about , while a group of colleagues over whose meeting he was to preside gazed at an empty chair . |
| 3 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 4 | At the same time , the parents were asked about family smoking habits and any other way in which the baby might be exposed to passive smoking . |
| 5 | So , in seeing the transvestite boy , the male member of the audience might be moved to lascivious thoughts about women , which then transfer to the boy himself . |
| 6 | It is assumed that social values , which are also placed on a single linear dimension , might be assigned to each variant . |
| 7 | The sceptics did not deny that by means of what was traditionally called an ‘ empirical ’ sign we might be led to indirect knowledge of something temporarily hidden : smoke from over the building is a sign that there is a fire behind . |
| 8 | The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based . |
| 9 | Subdivisions that might be applied to certain types of headings ( such as places , literatures , and so on ) are shown under key headings in the main list . |
| 10 | The research investigates the concepts of peacekeeping and peace enforcement as they might be applied to United Nations maritime operations . |
| 11 | Different interpretations might be applied to different organizations , but the basic information needs are the same . |
| 12 | It is nevertheless worth examining some more recent theories to see if they can suggest ways in which the implications of Brooke-Rose 's approach might be applied to novelistic texts . |
| 13 | If not , consider how it might be adjusted to different categories of student while preserving its efficacy as a means of encouraging orientation within a discourse . |
| 14 | Apart from those previously quoted there were other instances mentioned of retirement conditions : county and local WRVS posts of responsibility : 65 ; guiding and scouting in uniform : 65 ; British Red Cross volunteers : 75 ; St John 's Ambulance Brigade : no new volunteers of 65 or more , and volunteers over 65 need an annual medical and fitness certificate up to 68 , although this might be extended to 70 ; lay magistrates on the Juvenile panel : 65 , others 70 ; Industrial Tribunals : chairmen 72 , members 68. 68 ? |
| 15 | From 1 April they will be able to set up contracts for community health services such as district nursing and chiropody , and possibly this might be extended to social aspects of community care . |
| 16 | We wondered whether , if these criteria were satisfied , the benefits of restorative proctocolectomy might be extended to older patients . |
| 17 | Such openness might be extended to non-toxic waste . |
| 18 | Normally our tours were confined to three months but occasionally , according to the availability of experienced officers , this might be extended to longer periods . |
| 19 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 20 | This suggests another reason why memory might be related to subjective risk , simply because it is advantageous to the organism to have memory organized that way ( c.f. J. R. Anderson , 1990 ) . |
| 21 | It was immediately hypothesized that the relative degrees of focusing and diffuseness might be related to different degrees of social stability in the communities . |
| 22 | The laird of Stracathro , from the urgency of his correspondence , was clearly in terror that the land in question might be granted to another , for he was not attempting to secure a gift of the land but offering to pay full market value for it . |
| 23 | What reply might be given to all this ? |
| 24 | ( S. ) 71 , this called for a delicate balancing exercise between the possibility that the offender might commit further crimes in this country and the harm that might be done to innocent people if he were deported . |
| 25 | Irreparable damage might be done to one of the main tools of his trade . |
| 26 | We reasoned that , as cytokines in vivo will be rapidly washed away , MIP-1 β might be bound to endothelial surfaces and so induce adhesion in its immobilized form . |
| 27 | When we recognise that for the three Near Eastern traditions there is a clear emphasis upon God 's presence as well as His transcendence , their approach is seen to be closer than might be imagined to that of the Indian religious traditions . |
| 28 | Can you foresee any circumstances when an exception might be made to this rule ? |
| 29 | The body 's limitations for stress might be compared to all of us having a glass inside our bodies . |
| 30 | Executive authority might be delegated to autonomous north-south agencies like the Foyle Fisheries Commission . |