Example sentences of "might [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I thought we might do is to explore this phenomenon a little further , just the two of us together , but making sure we take things very carefully all the time . ’ |
| 2 | One of the reasons why it might have been felt necessary in the field-worker 's presence to define the neighbourhood role as primarily crime control is because , like community relations , the Neighbourhood Unit is aware that the section police see them as having an easy duty . |
| 3 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 4 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 5 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 6 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 7 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 8 | Ideally , the teams studied might have been serving similar populations with similar levels of staffing and other resources , and the samples might have been carefully standardized . |
| 9 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 10 | Geometric abstraction has been a mainstay in the art of Valerie Jaudon for many years : she has worked more patterned variations on the relationship between the curved and the straight line than might have been thought possible . |
| 11 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 12 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 13 | Even the lawns had been restored , like emerald carpets unrolled before his eyes ; sunblasted trees which might have been thought dead had miraculously clothed themselves with leaves . |
| 14 | Though they might have been thought unwise to travel to Berlin in the worsening international crisis , they had done nothing illegal and there was no authority to stop them . |
| 15 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 16 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 17 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 18 | Had the words been capable of bearing this defamatory meaning , Schild might have been awarded enormous damages . |
| 19 | Action might have been taken two months ago . |
| 20 | I thought she might have been taken ill or had a fall or something . ’ |
| 21 | The speech might have been delivered last week . |
| 22 | Zhu was reportedly dismissed because of his links with liberal policies , and might have been held responsible for the participation of union members in the pro-democracy protests of May and June . |
| 23 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 24 | He also saw two carriages that might have been carrying senior officers , and he flirted with the idea that one of the carriages might have belonged to the Emperor himself . |
| 25 | Of course , Moses might have been going senile and got a bit mixed up . |
| 26 | I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy , like Noddy . |
| 27 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 28 | Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% . |
| 29 | Had Ken not been beset by peculiarly worrying tours as England manager/coach , that small family might have been spared such early grief . |
| 30 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |