Example sentences of "it might be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 2 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 3 | It might be the monarch if we bred the right kind of king … |
| 4 | It might be the name of a character ( there was one already he was sure sounded familiar ; it was one of his bits of Evidence ) , it might be the description of a place or a sequence of events … all he needed was that Key . |
| 5 | At first he thought it might be the Headmaster but even if he ran to check , he never arrived in time to find out who , or what it was . |
| 6 | Khan and the Husayn twins were making offensive gargling noises while dancing round a statue that looked to Robert as if it might be the Lord Vishnu ; behind them , Mahmud did his Native American impression . |
| 7 | It might be the help the wine . |
| 8 | as to which of those distinguished people should be dispensed with , but nevertheless it might be the advantage of everybody if the numbers of the cabinet were reduced to sixteen , I personally thought that for a very long time . |
| 9 | This wo n't tune in this one , it might be the tuner itself . |
| 10 | No group claimed responsibility for the attack , but there was speculation that it might be the work either of a " freelance " splinter group in the Medellín drug cartel , or of the rival Cali drug cartel , since the Medellín cartel leaders themselves , and many of their followers , were loyal bullfight fans . |
| 11 | raised the curiosity of some ladies , who happened to be at the Castle in May 1782 , to examine the ruined Chapel , and observing a large block of alabaster , fixed in the North wall of the Chapel , they imagined it might be the back of a monument formerly placed there . |
| 12 | Nearer , he thought it might be the tailplane of an aircraft , possibly Australian . |
| 13 | Or it might be the breaking of an oath or the refusal to accept the decrees of Rome , as with King John . |
| 14 | In 1993 , it might be the turn of Gooch , the professional . |
| 15 | In 1993 , it might be the turn of Gooch , the professional . |
| 16 | and it might be the winter |
| 17 | His stepfather thinks it might be the boy . |
| 18 | It might be the opportunity of a world summit , or an earth summit , at which we can involve the public in Britain and throughout Europe in understanding that we have a common environment throughout the world . |
| 19 | It might be the name of a character ( there was one already he was sure sounded familiar ; it was one of his bits of Evidence ) , it might be the description of a place or a sequence of events … all he needed was that Key . |
| 20 | It might be the authorities who give you permission but when it comes to the bit it 's the ordinary policeman who 's getting shot . |
| 21 | Then again it might be the company you have here . |
| 22 | Of course , it might be the case that it had been settled long before that . |
| 23 | Now it might be the case that the taxi driver is a retired admiral ; but we are unlikely to assume , without evidence , that our receiver already knows this . |
| 24 | It might be the case that the activities of the Young Conservatives make the young people involved feel better : to use the curious language of modern psychologists , participation might improve the young members ' ’ sense of self-esteem' or ‘ actualize their inner identities ’ . |
| 25 | The church had been carefully laid out and constructed , but the basic unit of measurement had eluded us until December 1982 , when Michael Vickers of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford , a former member of the excavation-team , suggested that it might be the cubit , and , specifically , the long cubit . |
| 26 | I wondered uneasily whether he would be able to see from my face that though it might be the truth , it was not the whole truth . |
| 27 | Have n't you considered it might be the woman they were with ? |
| 28 | It looks as though it might be the fastening from a man 's cape . ’ |
| 29 | Will you tell him that , it might be the thermostat 's gone . |
| 30 | At that one at the Big Shops , the guy that ru okay it might be the guy that runs it not the one that owns it |