Example sentences of "might be on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It might be on the top
2 Prudently , they had got into the Jubilee Line train at Finchley Road , in case someone they knew might be on the platform at West Hampstead .
3 No , they might be on the dole or what they used to call the Board of Guardians something like that .
4 And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club .
5 SIGNS that the economy might be on the upturn come with another major East Anglian employer back in profit .
6 Today the firm offers connectivity products supporting Santa Cruz Operation Unix , Unix 5.1 , and IBM 's AIX — Craine says Sun Microsystems , Hewlett-Packard and DEC flavours of Unix might be on the agenda sometime in the future , though nothing is imminent .
7 I have hope that Ndlove might be on the agenda
8 I was n't nervous , but I might be on the night .
9 Sometimes I cough , as if I might be on the verge of tears .
10 Maybe that , and any other lesser problems had now been sorted out and we might be on the verge of going home .
11 Were you worried that I might be on the verge of getting married , too ?
12 There will need to be an assessment of which overseas markets offer the most opportunities at the same time as looking for early signs of local companies being eyed by competitors as ripe for merger or acquisition , forecasting what the effects of this might be on the locality .
13 just thought you know , Stuart might be on the T V
14 The case was so complicated that it has already generated at least two books ( Crouch and Marquart 1989 , Martin and Ekland-Olson 1987 ) and more might be on the way .
15 Some media at any moment might be on the way in ; others on the way out .
16 ‘ They think he might be on the moors . ’
17 For your chance of a night to remember , just unscramble this word to reveal what might be on the menu .
18 The shoes and socks might be on the floor if the patient is capable of reaching down for them .
19 The optimists tried to suggest that Garner and Holding might be on the wane ; the realists knew better .
20 Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’
21 He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far .
22 There seemed no point when the whole place might be on the point of closing , and she herself and Steve in prison .
23 The answer might be on the pier or in a boat .
24 This might be on the basis of a particular attribute such as colour or shape , or a more abstract quality such as use or even ‘ because I like them ’ .
25 ENGLAND vice-captain Alec Stewart has been re-appointed captain of Surrey for the 1993 cricket season , ending suggestions that his job might be on the line after the TCCB found the county guilty of ball-tampering .
26 The very optimism of the possibility that the miners might be on the move against the government carried with it a premonition of pessimism , that the miners would save the working class when it could not save itself .
27 Mr Hopps later mentioned to the Cypriots that the Kanakaria mosaics might be on the market .
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