Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hotly contested litigation between AM&S Europe Limited and the Commission , the European Court decided that the Commission had the sole power to adjudicate on claims of privilege in relation to advice or other documentation passing between a lawyer and his client which might be examined by the Commission in investigations under the competition rules . |
| 2 | In serious mountains that spring might be influenced by the thrill of being at high altitude , while in lower terrain the jauntiness of stride may reflect the rollercoaster of broad panoramas and changing perspectives . |
| 3 | Conflict : As a consequence decisions made in the boardroom — what bank to approach for loans or which underwriter to use — might be influenced by the presence and voting powers of bank directors . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the only categories included in the criteria for grants which might be exploited by the arts do not appear to have been designed for this purpose . |
| 5 | From any clutch it 's possible that one or two would n't hatch , and if food was short a little chick might be killed by an elder sibling ( or by its mother so that the stronger chick would survive ) . |
| 6 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 7 | A team from the Centre assessed the route to be taken by Shell 's North Western Ethylene Pipeline to determine how archaeological sites close to its path — from Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth to Stanlow in Cheshire — might be affected by the proposed construction work and how potential damage might be mitigated . |
| 8 | The Regulations are presently the responsibility of Building Control Officers within local authorities and it is to them that you should apply if you want to do any work which might be affected by the Regulations . |
| 9 | Most verbs which are used of situations where the object — talking strictly of the intensional level and not of the world referred to — does not change its properties ( between the narrow focus on the object phrase alone , and the wider view when it is construed with the verb and the adjective as in ( 22 ) ) will not be suitable ; if a property that might be expressed by an adjective could be present in the wider structural context , then its applicability will not normally be connected with the link between the verb and the noun phrase . |
| 10 | I was afraid I might be shot by a startled sentry . |
| 11 | The winner of the big greyhound race this weekend might be decided by a photograph … its the semi-final of the greyhound derby … two local dogs are running … |
| 12 | Sara Maitland says : ‘ I could say something which I thought was warm and friendly , but which might be regarded by the voters of Milwaukee as offensive . ’ |
| 13 | However there was some hope that proposals for " Unity " put forward by a self-effacing and cooperative Communist Party might be accepted by the Left of the Labour Party . |
| 14 | However , the peaks can be either positive or negative : and this is another example of chaotic behaviour ; a sequence like that in Fig. 24.3(b) might be obtained by the toss of a coin — heads for a positive peak , tails for a negative . |
| 15 | to ensure that any matters which might be raised by the acquiror company 's ‘ due diligence ’ exercise are identified in advance , and considered in the light of the effect on the proposed deal . |
| 16 | The discrepancy in the size of this transcript compared to the 5 kb transcript identified here might be explained by a difference between species . |
| 17 | This leaves around 1400km of post-collision convergence to be accounted for , much of which might be explained by a doubling of the thickness of the Tibetan crust during the past 50 Ma from a ‘ normal ’ value of 35 km to the present 70 km . |
| 18 | He also pointed out that the apparently prodigious appetites of the clergy might be explained by the droves of tourists and worshippers who ate at Vatican restaurants . |
| 19 | The strikingly low Rm-value in the Holthusen Z1 borehole might be explained by the ‘ chimney effect ’ of the overlying salt stock which has caused a rapid heat discharge ( Hedemann 1967 ) . |
| 20 | In some instances the researchers accepted that this pattern might be explained by the preponderance of mode B schemes ‘ but more often a process of ‘ guided drift ’ could be detected , based on a stereotyping of both young people and mode delivery ’ ( pp. 38 — 9 ) . |
| 21 | This might be explained by the fact that the former category are not the direct employees of the establishment and that their terms and conditions of employment are less subject to regulation by unions . |
| 22 | This observation might be explained by the cDNA sequence which contains two internal ATG triplets encoding methionine residues which are in frame with the adjacent POU domain ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 23 | Thus all the complicated structures that we see in the universe might be explained by the no boundary condition for the universe together with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics . |
| 24 | It might be explained by the fact that the toxin is effective from the luminal side and binds irreversibly to a particular membrane receptor . |
| 25 | The fanciful style of the gaol might be explained by the fact that the man who paid for it , Lord Cobham , was also the man who had the biggest collection of follies in the country in the grounds of his nearby estate , Stowe , including a gothic folly . |
| 26 | Failure of a team might be explained by an imbalance of team types , the absence of crucial roles or a mismatch between team role and hierarchical status . |
| 27 | The high proportion of symptomatic patients without detectable pathogens especially at early stages of HIV infection , and furthermore the poor correlation of infections and symptoms might be explained by an enteropathogenic role of HIV itself . |
| 28 | Or the conditions might be imposed by the law : for example , spending limits fixed as a percentage of last year 's spending . |
| 29 | Dick Spring has even suggested that something might be imposed by the two sovereign governments , if the stalemate continues . |
| 30 | Or royalist subjects might be faced by a fellow subject who argues that the monarch should revive these former powers . |