Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 2 | for all we know he might be locked up in that house against his will — ‘ |
| 3 | She was in danger of losing her beloved Mrs Howard , who might be setting up with a brother-in-law in a public house , and I wrote : |
| 4 | For instance , although close relationships are usually protective , they can sometimes interfere with an adaptive mode of defence such as denial , which a person might be setting up in response to a particularly threatening event . |
| 5 | A small budget might be swallowed up with a few very expensive cases . |
| 6 | After Warrington they 've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke . |
| 7 | ‘ I might be inching up on it , might n't I ? ’ |
| 8 | Fletcher also indicated that England 's batting line-up might be shaken up after the humiliation by India . |
| 9 | By chance one might be whistling up for you , |
| 10 | In fact I had it in mind that she might be trained up to one of the women 's auxiliary services which justified themselves so splendidly in the last war — the WRENS , I mean , of course . |
| 11 | The difference might be made up through charges to local councils for taking their rubbish away . |
| 12 | This chapter will look at what a School Development Plan might be made up of , and some of the issues involved in its construction , implementation and evaluation . |
| 13 | Almost the entire labour force might be made up of seasonal workers . |
| 14 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 15 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 16 | Nevertheless there are few editors who do not like to use at least one or two photographs and the relevant drawings might be backed up with shots of the inventor or the experimental staff at work . |
| 17 | As autumn arrives , the birds migrate south , leaving the foxes to scavenge from the bird and reindeer carcasses and anything that might be washed up on the shore . |
| 18 | He would have liked to reduce speed but he was worried about what might be coming up behind him . |
| 19 | — presenting evidence in support of and against various positions which might be taken up with regard to the issue ; |
| 20 | At the same time another hierarchy might be set up for line management . |
| 21 | I have founded my judgment upon the grounds which I have already expressed , but I do not wish to be understood as thereby negativing the proposition that a defence might be set up on the alternative basis mentioned by Willes J. In my opinion this appeal should be allowed . |
| 22 | Typically , a project organisation might be set up in which LIFESPAN users are given positions in the hierarchy according to their work and may assume an appropriate pseudonym . |
| 23 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 24 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 25 | The British contribution to the philosophy of free speech might be summed up in the Duke of Wellington 's phrase , " publish and be damned " . |
| 26 | This whole discussion of the meaning of ‘ here ’ might be summed up by saying that in so far as ‘ Here ’ , in reply to ‘ Where are you ? ‘ , has a meaning , as distinct from a use , its meaningfulness is parasitic on the meaningfulness of ‘ Here ’ in reply to ‘ Where is it ? ’ , the meaningfulness of this being conditional on the possibility of distinguishing places . |