Example sentences of "might be [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research will also consider how far young children 's social behaviour with peers encourages collaborative working at computers and , then , how far an individual 's self perception might be influenced by such focused collaborations . |
| 2 | The travel pattern might be influenced by such factors as convenience , minimizing travel time and the nature of the business ( for example , the businessman might wish to visit suppliers , manufacturers and retail outlets , in that order ) . |
| 3 | A hundred years earlier such an expedient might well have been used to impress envoys from some European state ; but by the later eighteenth century it showed merely that the Indians were exotic visitors from outside the European diplomatic system who might be influenced by such essentially childish devices . |
| 4 | He insisted that this was a voice with characteristic qualities which might be exploited to some purpose on the air . |
| 5 | They also provide three-dimensional environments of enormous physical complexity , and hence contain numerous different niches , each of which might be exploited in many different ways , and in many different permutations . |
| 6 | However , we are equally conscious that some colleges may find the pace of development too slow for their needs and are concerned to explore ways in which some of the aims of the Programme might be accelerated for those colleges which wish to develop their provision rapidly . |
| 7 | In these two examples , the first would be slightly under-hedged if one contract was written against 1000 shares and in the second case over-hedged as two contracts might be written against each 1000 shares held . |
| 8 | Again , the workers in an industry might claim a wage increase of ‘ X and their employers might resist it and offer ‘ Y ; but the interests of another part of the economy might be affected in such a way by either proposal that neither is acceptable . |
| 9 | I shall have to put a 10-minute limit on speeches , and the hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) might be affected by that . |
| 10 | agreed that finance would be needed to form and run a North American Division , but there was an Australian Division which had a local levy to raise its funds , which might be affected by any new arrangements for North America . |
| 11 | Even though , unfortunately , his army and possibly some civilians might be affected by this , which as human life again which seems to be not of so much importance for him . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | What we have , further , might be expressed in several different logical notations . |
| 14 | The background to the document has to be sought in Stirling 's fear that he might be absorbed into some top-heavy bureaucracy like Combined Operations or SOE . |
| 15 | In 1966 , the Court ruled that a publication which is not obscene might be regarded as such if distributed in a lascivious manner , and in 1968 , that the law 's jurisdiction did not ‘ reach into the privacy of one 's home … [ whereas ] public distribution … might intrude upon the sensibilities or privacy of the general public … ’ . |
| 16 | Working with a series of transparent resin models in polarized light , Marsh was able to show that a step was just as bad a stress concentrator as the equivalent crack , in fact it might be regarded as half a crack . |
| 17 | Also , when Chas behaves in what might be regarded in this book as a ‘ non traditional way ’ , for example , in aiming to look after Nicky whose family has been killed , his endeavours in this regard are also portrayed positively . |
| 18 | Since it is possible that more than one defence might be raised in each case , sometimes in combination with a defence of lack of intent , a system of criminal law which offers seven qualified defences to murder risks undue complication and confusion in contested cases . |
| 19 | The size of the forces which might be raised by these primitive and inequitable means , especially at moments of real crisis , should not be under-estimated . |
| 20 | But there are two further objections that might be raised against this theory : one of them concerns compresence , the other completeness . |
| 21 | The revival of interest in its ideas might be explained by this , rather than by its standing as a political organisation . |
| 22 | Empirically based hypotheses were subject to revision ; for , as he put it himself , the facts might be explained in another way as yet unknown to men . |
| 23 | It is assumed that social values , which are also placed on a single linear dimension , might be assigned to each variant . |
| 24 | In 1966 the applicant was appointed as a lecturer to the university by a letter stating , inter alia , that his appointment might be terminated by either party giving three months ' notice in writing . |
| 25 | Letters , photographs with captions and telephone calls reporting news or events that might be featured in this University newspaper are all welcome and should be addresses to . |
| 26 | Seaweed or other dressing might be applied in this central raised area where the crop is planted , and the trenches provide drainage . |
| 27 | For example strategically placed peat mounds might be created on either side of the path . |
| 28 | For example , a social welfare budget might be created in that the taxes conceived of as paying for programmes could be allocated in line with the volume of social welfare benefits provided . |
| 29 | I know I 've told you this place might be run by these Chinese Triads , but I want everyone t'remember we 're dealin' mainly with kids here . |
| 30 | To see what insights might be gained from such juxtapositions , go to Castelli before 13 March . |