Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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1 | To take another example : Radioactivity in the surface and coastal waters of the British Isles , 1977 might be converted to an alphabetical description such as : Water pollutants Radioactive materials — Great Britain or into a classification notation such as 628.16850941 . |
2 | Or you might be invited to a party , start to feel uncomfortable and have the courage to comply when your inner voice tells you to go , knowing that your guide will keep you safe from harm . |
3 | If I had a little light , I thought , I might be tempted to a bit of a read in bed . |
4 | Below are some examples of how the different note-systems might be applied to a specific topic . |
5 | An example of how this might be applied to an inventory record would be to control the format of named collections , e.g. ‘ Sloane Bequest , Miscellanea ’ . |
6 | The ‘ LOB-H ’ texts are business and government documents such as might be dictated to a speech input workstation . |
7 | Beneath them , in France , there existed an ordered and fairly hierarchical structure which saw to the day-to-day defence of the country , from those with wide territorial jurisdictions to those who might be sent to a particular area , town or castle to organise its defence in time of crisis . |
8 | The Labour party might be looking to a new future , but it was not going to forget its ancient roots . |
9 | These reconstructions are often made of the organic elements of a composite implement : a reconstructed wooden shaft might be fitted to a bronze spearhead to give a better impression of its original appearance . |
10 | Otherwise , the patient might be transferred to a specialist Stroke Unit or have a private consultation with a specialist physiotherapist . |
11 | But the suggestion that this basic Christian principle might be extended to a more explicit set of Christian values makes them uneasy . |
12 | Hood has standardised on modular 386DXs , which might be upgraded to a 486DX by a single board swap . |
13 | Property might be given to a trustee upon trust for the separate use of the married woman , free from the control and liabilities of her husband . |
14 | The Syrians watched impassively as one of the Christian gunmen produced a camera , the kind of small pocket camera that might be given to a child as a Christmas present . |
15 | A different answer , however , might be given to a soldier who followed a leader of his own choosing — for pay ; he could not plead obedience if his conscience left him uneasy . |
16 | He might be legitimising Goldsmiths ' current practice ( in which , ironically , women are very active participants ) and he might be pandering to a new Europeanisation … but the notion that Arte povera , in this limited manifestation , is ‘ representative of a crucial revolutionary moment — even of the last possible revolutionary moment ’ is a load of cobblers . |
17 | The clear danger was , however , that certain factions within the party leadership would not be so tolerant as Su Xiao Kang hoped and that the freer intellectual atmosphere of 1988 might be drawing to an end . |
18 | There were some signs in 1990-91 that Japan 's long-running dispute with the Soviet Union might be drawing to an end . |
19 | My good sister , how happy should I be if I might be admitted to a conversation with you at your grate . |
20 | But you might be talking to a client , says , but at the moment , I 've got no need , erm , or I 've got n no intention of buying now , but I might be buying in a year or two year 's time . |
21 | It is exactly the kind of work that might be suited to a poet of Smart 's mind recovering from a severe mental illness . |
22 | Bacon said that there were three kinds of gift that might be offered to a judge : the first were bribes given in advance to pervert the course of justice ; the second were presents given when the judge thought the case was over . |
23 | There was a nationalist fear that they might be confined to an internal Northern Ireland settlement , but this has been denied . |
24 | ‘ 37(1) Any notice , demand or order against which an appeal might be brought to a county court under this Part of this Act shall , if no such appeal is brought , become operative on the expiration of 21 days from the date of the service of the notice , demand or order , and shall be final and conclusive as to any matters which could have been raised on such an appeal , and any such notice , demand or order against which an appeal is brought shall , if and so far as it is confirmed by a county court judge , or the Court of Appeal , become operative as from the date of the final determination of the appeal . |
25 | Although many of us are now working around disability issues professionally , the lull in activity by self-organized disability groups such as SAD and the Liberation Network feels as though it might be coming to an end . |
26 | In addition to vigilance we need education in the responsible uses of this new extension of man 's powers , otherwise we might be driven to a fruitless Luddite destruction of computers because they seem able to take on a life of their own . |
27 | So neuronal connectivity can be altered not merely by increasing or decreasing the actual number of synapses between two cells , but by altering the size or position of any particular synapse — for instance , one located on the dendritic shaft might be shifted to a spine . |
28 | With the frame frozen the attention of the class might be drawn to a particular gesture , or to an expression on someone 's face . |
29 | We can not say how many of these are primarily curricular in nature , and how many were motivated by the prospects of additional money which might be attached to a statement under local formula funding arrangements . |
30 | A poet might be attached to a household , or , increasingly , be dependent on travelling between households , performing his work and looking for hospitality and support . |