Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be said that these represent no more than quiet , low-energy conditions on an extensive continental shelf ( or shelves ) . |
| 2 | It might be said that this was , in part , because the elected government of President Salvador Allende did not command sufficient support for its radical programme . |
| 3 | It might be said that this constitutes the bulk of market lore and wisdom . |
| 4 | It might be felt that this is not perhaps the set of circumstances in which ignoring ail Continental experience would seem to be a logical and easily justified decision . |
| 5 | If there are exclusively private events , in the sense that they are in principle , and not just empirically , inaccessible to more than one observer , it might be argued that such events could not be intelligibly claimed , let alone shown to be , subject to any laws , and this means that no rational explanatory model could be constructed for them . |
| 6 | Of course , it might be argued that most of them come from very poor rural areas , and that their diets outside would be equally poor , if not poorer , in nutritional value . |
| 7 | It might be argued that this device , although an ingenious reference to the converted barn 's former purpose , is not a practical feature in a dwelling because even double-glazing will not prevent the excessive heat loss and cold radiation caused by such large windows . |
| 8 | Given that our primary concern is with perceptual learning it might be argued that this last process is what should command attention and that the processes involved in latent inhibition ( apart perhaps from the attentional change it involves ) are of marginal importance only . |
| 9 | It might be argued that this function has been coopted by such purposive ( indeed , allegedly manipulative ) schemes as the Youth Training Scheme . |
| 10 | This case did not concern the availability of coercive remedies against the Crown and it might be argued that this statement is of no relevance in that context . |
| 11 | It might be argued that this scheme puts the claimant who at present has a choice whether or not to use Ord. 53 , at a disadvantage because under the new scheme he or she would have to seek leave and would possibly be subject to very restrictive time-limits . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it might be argued that this merely exposes certain limitations of quantification as a logical device , but does not show that existence predicates are not eliminable . |
| 13 | Although it is a matter of emphasis and weighting rather than clear-cut law , it might be argued that this also alters police responsibilities . |
| 14 | It might be argued that this approach downgrades sexual intercourse without consent where little violence or none at all is used . |
| 15 | Furthermore , it might be argued that this issue was overpriced and that the nation was able to sell an effectively overpriced collection of assets . |
| 16 | As it might be argued that this microflora is more likely to exert pathogenic or protective effects in the intestine than the lumen flora , we were interested to determine the adherent and hydrophobic properties of our mucosal E coli isolates by techniques comparable with those used by others studying faecal isolates . |
| 17 | Although it might be argued that this difference is due to the nature of the complexed metal ion ( iron in the cleavage reaction , cobalt in the footprint ) an alternative explanation is that bleomycin does not bind tightly to ( AT ) n sequences , and that these are efficiently cleaved during a transient interaction . |
| 18 | At first glance it might be assumed that this would always be the case . |
| 19 | For though it might be claimed that such an education would help a child to see more in his immediate environment , and understand it better , yet it would also greatly diminish his chances of going beyond that environment . |
| 20 | It might be objected that these are not opportunities at all , except in the sense that a life-raft is an opportunity to sailors shipwrecked by their captain 's folly . |
| 21 | If the key processes are biochemical , then it might be expected that each memory will have its specific representation in terms of the synthesis of unique proteins or other molecules . |
| 22 | It might be countered that that is because the Oxbridge graduate has more to offer in social ‘ maturity ’ , in interpersonal skills , in self-confidence , and in being articulate . |
| 23 | It might be speculated that this results in a diminished synthesis of stearic acid from palmitic acid ( which would be preferentially oxidated ) and/or an increased activity of delta-9-desaturase to produce oleic acid . |
| 24 | It might be thought that such policies spring from a desire , on the one hand , to ensure the free flowering of individual enterprise , and on the other , to guard against the tyrannies of " big business " . |
| 25 | It might be thought that such social constraints would be likely , simply by being social , to be culturally variable , and thus of no great interest to a general ( or universal ) pragmatic theory . |
| 26 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 27 | This aspect of the decision in Levison is open to question ; the parties had agreed the price and the date for the collection of the carpet , and it might be thought that that would indicate that a binding contract had been made on the telephone . |
| 28 | Although it is easy to appreciate that the polymer must be sufficiently wettable to sustain a coherent layer of tear fluid , it might be thought that all problems associated with wettability would be overcome by the presence of water in the material . |
| 29 | It might be thought that those seeking detailed information about a particular school should show a special reason for wanting it , but there is no suggestion in any of the Regulations that availability of the information should be limited . |
| 30 | It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books . |