Example sentences of "might be [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often a young man might be led to join up by the death of his mother , the remarriage of his father , and a resulting feeling that he was no longer wanted at home . |
| 2 | This will keep you going when you might be tempted to give up . |
| 3 | Any self-respecting sceptic might be tempted to point out that conferences have a pretty poor track record in saving anything , let alone the Earth . |
| 4 | Coroner Clifford Tughan said that he hoped Mr McCaffrey 's tragic death would serve as a warning to others who might be tempted to climb out of lifts . |
| 5 | I had the strong impression he might be tempted to come back and give us a bit more front-line colour from the other side of the grave . |
| 6 | ‘ With so many reporters around , I thought she might be tempted to rake up old scores . |
| 7 | In appropriate cases a commissioner from the Requesting State might be appointed to carry out the special method or procedure requested , e.g. , to overcome the difficulty which a civil law State may have in satisfying a Request from a common law State to take evidence under cross examination , because no judge or local lawyer in the requested State had any experience in that field . |
| 8 | Spiegelman might be said to bring out this infantile helplessness ( ’ Mostly I felt like crying ’ ) in all his readers alongside their most sophisticated imaginative and emotional responses . |
| 9 | Enid Crumwallis , behind her pebble glasses , might be seen to screw up her eyes . |
| 10 | What is questioned is the kind of methods that might be employed to bring about conversions . |
| 11 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 12 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 13 | I remember that we were quite concerned that we might be expected to take off from ‘ Argus ’ as even the resident Swordfish seemed to have difficulty . |
| 14 | He could add another to the list of places where Riddle might be expected to take off his jacket and tie and relax . |
| 15 | There must be other places in the evening where Suzie might be expected to put in an appearance . |
| 16 | Many of these stood at junctions where passengers might be expected to stop over before continuing their journey 's . |
| 17 | Indeed commentators on test-case litigation in both the UK and the USA appear agreed that the main value of test-case litigation derives from its contribution to the broader process of political mobilisation rather than from any direct change in the law which it might be expected to bring about . |
| 18 | Families which operate in this way might be expected to break up but they usually do not do so . |
| 19 | As noted in chapter 4 , social anthropology has tended to privilege society and social structure as prior phenomena which posses a certain profound reality , and in this tradition patterns located in objects might be held to reflect back to some social division or model from which they derive their source and significance . |
| 20 | The Supreme Court was reported on Jan. 11 , 1989 , as ruling unanimously that universities might be forced to hand over confidential evaluation records on academic tenure . |
| 21 | When the development was first announced in 1990 , senior Motorola managers spoke of the company 's policy of encouraging its global suppliers to establish local operations alongside its manufacturing plants , and said they hoped that some suppliers might be persuaded to set up in Scotland . |
| 22 | On December 28 he would be twenty years old , and he wondered bitterly when he might be allowed to grow up . |
| 23 | This explanation might be thought to fit in with the prerogative nature of the original public law remedies of certiorari , prohibition and mandamus . |