Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only because B yields to A 's threat that it might be broken that C suffers damage at all . |
| 2 | Since quite serious charges have been made against the foster mother and her ‘ family , ’ it might be said that fairness to her requires that such an investigation should take place . |
| 3 | Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness . |
| 4 | It might be said that Rochlin is not to be taken seriously , being merely a popularizing psychologist . |
| 5 | To take an example , within this scheme it might be said that computing facilities must be subject to constant returns to scale because a consortium of firms large enough to take advantage of the optimally sized computer could buy one and then time-share its facilities . |
| 6 | Indeed , it might be said that Augusta , as a whole , is his territory . |
| 7 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
| 8 | It might be said that war elephants were the battle tanks of the Moguls . |
| 9 | That being so , it might be argued that Alcester enjoyed an importance , above that of most small towns , for the rural area around it , providing not only its goods and services , but also the accommodation and ancillary buildings for the farmers of the neighbourhood . |
| 10 | Furthermore , because the child is provided with simplified situations which have been specifically designed to help the child understand what is required , it might be argued that elicitation procedures should provide an optimal measure of performance . |
| 11 | And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region . |
| 12 | It might be argued that violation of the treaty by its parties constitutes a fundamental change of circumstances justifying Protocol States in terminating their commitments . |
| 13 | It might be argued that rivals would be aware of this possibility and therefore move in quickly , bearing initial losses in the same way as the initial company does . |
| 14 | It might be argued that children experience difficulties in the area of language development precisely because the normal developmental processes have broken down . |
| 15 | However , of the three areas excluded from potential transfer to the Community , it might be argued that customs co-operation was already implicit in the concept of the customs union ( which has existed since 1968 ) . |
| 16 | It might be argued that Cheshire was untypical : there was no great local lord , and as a palatinate jurisdiction it was specially linked to the Crown . |
| 17 | One response to these data might be to argue that community based dermatology is therefore essential , but this view is held only by those whose ignorance of the specialty is total . |
| 18 | Average fertility is so low today compared to the total number of children that might be conceived that factors affecting fecundity would be unlikely to influence final family size . |
| 19 | So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one . |
| 20 | It might be added that William Hamilton was well supplied with interest to advance his settlement , for he had served Lord Haddington as a page when at college and had continued in Haddington 's service as chaplain . |
| 21 | In fairness to the much maligned British Communists it might be added that Lozovsky , the RILU leader chiefly responsible for the discarded policy , had to admit to its failure throughout the world . |
| 22 | Does this mean that God is ‘ not in time ’ — an example of the way of negation — or does it , as some have said , mean that all times are somehow ‘ present ’ to God , in which case it might be claimed that God possesses a kind of temporal omnipresence ? |
| 23 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 24 | There were no significant differences in the present study between the never and the previously married although it might be expected that people with children might be less likely to go into a home than those without any and the widowed , divorced , or separated are much more likely to have children than the single : 75 per cent compared with 6 per cent . |
| 25 | If it is true that verbal questions primarily engage the left hemisphere while spatial questions tap the functions of the right hemisphere , it might be predicted that responses to such questions will be optimal when the appropriate hemisphere is activated rather than if the opposite hemisphere is aroused . |
| 26 | For instance it might be predicted that aspects of situations which were highly inconsistent with a pre-existing schema would be better recognised than relatively consistent aspects , but less well recalled . |
| 27 | A national assessment of about 70,000 – 80,000 hides should have produced something like 9,000 – 10,000 of them , and if this figure seems high , it might be remembered that Thietmar of Merseburg heard that there were 24,000 byrnies in London in 1016 . |
| 28 | Perhaps you might be persuaded that Mr Henderson of Branbury Castle also falls into this rare category . |
| 29 | It might be thought that combinations of restraints would help to solve the problem . |
| 30 | It might be suggested that UDCs can cut through local bureaucracy and need to operate at different time-scales from those prevalent within local government . |