Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's business managers had to come to the rescue when it looked as though the Bill might be lost at Committee Stage . |
| 2 | New Towns might be built at Ashford and Stansted . |
| 3 | ‘ Your opinion , then , as a medical man , is that a girl of eleven years old might be kept at work constantly , day after day , year after year , with the intermission of Sunday , without injury to her health ? ’ |
| 4 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 5 | He might be staying at Southampton , Long Island , with an American newspaper tycoon , or visiting distant American cousins at Newport . |
| 6 | He has a tutor , a retired teacher who visits the house for mathematics and is following a traditional and largely irrelevant course in it ( such as he might be following at school ) and he is learning quite sufficient about mathematics in context apart from that ( shades of Cockcroft ! ) |
| 7 | He considered the matter as he might have done when he was only half a century old in what he still called the ‘ swinging ’ sixties , when lunch for two might be had at Alvaro 's for a five pound note and his column ‘ Jottings ’ by Haverford Downs in the weekly Informer had been described on the wireless as ‘ Max Beerbohm with a social conscience ’ . |
| 8 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 9 | Formerly it was sufficient that attention might be required at night ; now repeated attention is required involving a carer being awake for a prolonged period or at frequent intervals . |
| 10 | Since probabilities can be multiplied as well as added , one way of making effects among small probabilities comparable with effects when the probabilities are nearer 0.5 might be to look at ratios rather than differences . |
| 11 | This focus might be provided at South Kensington . |
| 12 | I might be starting at Crewe or Rochdale , but I might end up at the top . ’ |