Example sentences of "might be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another technique might be to put a primary source alongside a later secondary account , inviting pupils to explore the differences between primary and secondary sources . |
| 2 | Another refinement might be to use a disc-based " spelling checker " , which highlights words in the text that the computer can not find in its vocabulary of 40–50,000 words . |
| 3 | With Hartie mortally wounded by the vengeful NZRU council , Kirwan has now made himself available and the newly appointed backs coach Earle Kirton has been heard suggesting that ‘ King John ’ might be assigned a new role at centre , a position he is successfully filling for his second division Italian club Thiene who are coaches by another Kiwi , John Boe . |
| 4 | Let me look in your eyes and see you might be getting a wee bit bloodless actually I mean that 's the other thing Cathy , you 're a bit pale in there . |
| 5 | One way of overcoming judicial resistance might be to incorporate a sentencing council as part of the Court of Appeal , and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders has recently advocated this as a compromise solution ( NACRO , 1999d : 33 ) . |
| 6 | Hurtling along the open track and through what might be called a blinding blizzard , the C.P.R. ‘ Special ’ carried Gladstone Murray and his party to Regina in just over an hour . |
| 7 | There is , of course , nothing new in the development of what might be called a farm-centred community , distinct and largely separated from the village , particularly in the pastoral and upland areas of England , where this kind of settlement pattern has traditionally been more common . |
| 8 | They applied what might be called a Morellian analysis , recording precisely the minute details of the ancient works , dividing statues into as many as 300 measurable parts , and entering the results into a database . |
| 9 | HEAVY with prizes from Venice , She 's Been Away ( BBC1 ) was , superficially , one of those pieces in which a major star offers what might be called a Complex Simpleton performance . |
| 10 | There was a long silence — what I think might be called a pregnant pause . |
| 11 | In what follows , we adopt what might be called a modified pluralist approach ( Hall et al . , |
| 12 | This might be called a constructive attack , since it implied that Morgenthau 's notion of a determining system might be strengthened by dropping the contentious and unprovable notion of human nature . |
| 13 | What might be called a conservative legal-constitutionalism is a consistent theme within Tory-Anglican thought throughout our period , even though not all Tory Anglicans would have argued such a position at all times with the same degree of commitment . |
| 14 | Identification of what might be called a transient problem , compared with , with a deep-seated long-term problem , is perhaps not always apparent . |
| 15 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |
| 16 | It is what might be called a self-perpetuat-ing oligarchy with mild , but only mild overtones of plutocracy . ’ |
| 17 | Elaborations are characteristic of what might be called a pedagogical style , which itself can be explained in terms of the principle of relevance . |
| 18 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 19 | The norm which is " attained " by stylistic consistency in a text might be called a SECONDARY NORM , since it is established by deviance from the PRIMARY ( relative ) NORMS which determine our more general expectations of language . |
| 20 | The fact that he might be taking a considerable risk only added to his excitement . |
| 21 | Your bank balance might be given a pleasant surprise . |
| 22 | Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership . |
| 23 | Knowing that the fox might be given a bad time afterwards would n't be a lot of consolation . |
| 24 | One possible way of obtaining these special facilities might be to create a special cross-reference file that can be called upon at any stage and edited as the need arises . |
| 25 | Well they might be tailored a little bit according to the level , but basically it 's a similar lecture . |
| 26 | Now capitalist landlords might be the development certainly in terms of production you , you might be disrupting a viable , commercial , capitalist orientated economy , and would you really want to do that ? |
| 27 | Thus , a reasonable goal related to a problem of boredom in an adolescent because of lack of interests might be to join a local youth club . |
| 28 | Now , as far as I know , mechanical missionaries from the copper-capped brigade made various sorties on the L.M. main line over the years , but only one expedition by what might be considered a top-link engine is on record having penetrated further than Mold Junction . |
| 29 | Members of this management board might be paid a small part-time salary in addition to their normal council allowances . |
| 30 | It might be to get a criminal or terrorist prisoners released , ’ he explained patiently . |