Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was afraid I might be shot by a startled sentry . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | The discrepancy in the size of this transcript compared to the 5 kb transcript identified here might be explained by a difference between species . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Or royalist subjects might be faced by a fellow subject who argues that the monarch should revive these former powers . |
| 6 | The nineteenth century work of Pavlov on the conditioned reflex generated vain hopes that psychology , and in particular learning , might be studied by a rigorous methodology closely allied to physiology . |
| 7 | The increase of tissue type plasminogen activator antigen and activity in normal duodenal mucosa might be caused by a different vascularisation of the mucosa of this tissue , because tissue type plasminogen activator is expressed mainly in endothelial cells of vessels . |
| 8 | She might be reassured by a test yet is obviously in the high-risk category . |
| 9 | Nor does he specify what kind of effects might be achieved by a reformulation or explain how it achieves those effects . |
| 10 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 11 | It is unwise to keep medications in a handbag which could be lost or might be explored by a child , with disastrous results . |
| 12 | If you 're able to read the signs and identify an area well used by badgers , you just might be rewarded by a sight like this : a bundle of young badgers at play on their log in the fading light of a summer 's evening . |
| 13 | Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law . |
| 14 | Greengross ( 1986 ) has suggested that an ‘ intervention order ’ might be granted by a magistrate in these circumstances . |
| 15 | In this book we will be looking at the level at which facilities are provided in electronic hardware , as they might be seen by a system programmer about to implement the most basic software on the computer . |
| 16 | This might be done by a special ( privileged ) " load control store " instruction , which transfers a set of bit patterns in main Storage to an area of control store . |
| 17 | Personal ambition might be served by a bureaucracy , but is perhaps more associated with power culture and person culture . |
| 18 | Thus output might be altered by a technological breakthrough , or by changes in the structure of taxation which affected the choice between work and leisure , or by changes in other real variables , but should not be affected by a change in nominal spending : such changes should affect the price at which the available output is sold and not the quantity of output itself . |
| 19 | It was often hard for the minister or civil servant … to know when normal procedures might be disrupted by a sudden intervention from the Elysée . " |
| 20 | Thus whereas an ambiguous clause , such as ‘ bought as seen , ’ might be understood by a buyer to exclude such liability , it might equally well , as a matter of correct legal interpretation , be held not to have that effect . |
| 21 | Some Romanians , however , saw the emergence of General Jaruzelski and his apparently successful suppression of Solidarity after 13 December 1981 , as a good omen : perhaps , the local incompetent might be replaced by a reliable general and perhaps the Soviet Union would not mind either . |
| 22 | Later , if the people endorsed the proposal by their vote , the parliamentary system might be replaced by a corporate state along the lines that Franco 's Spain was subsequently to follow . |
| 23 | When humans cut down the forest , it might be replaced by a permanent grassland because the soil itself had been modified in a way that prevented the trees from reseeding themselves . |
| 24 | Looking at Saul Quatt , Theda could not help feeling that his fondest hope was likely to be that he might be struck by a thunderbolt ! |
| 25 | AWORLDWIDE shortage of kidneys for transplant might be resolved by a system of ‘ rewarded gifts ’ , a leading transplant surgeon and opponent of cash for human organs said yesterday . |
| 26 | Therefore when , in 1926 , the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry ( largely at the instigation of William Beveridge , one of its members ) recommended the introduction of a system of children 's allowances financed by the mining industry itself but with a hint that it might be accompanied by a reduction in wage rates , the Miners ' Federation was only prepared to accept the proposal if financed out of general taxation . |
| 27 | It also suggests , paradoxically , that the less autonomous individuality is thought to be , the more it might be marked by a potentially subversive agency . |
| 28 | This generally took place at Easter preceded by confession , often in public , in which the social duty of making restitution for sin was stressed ; it might be succeeded by a parish party which played out at its own level the eternal being of love celebrated in the Mass . |
| 29 | An opinion made popular by a Dr David Macbride held that scurvy was due to an inadequate supply of fixed air in the human body , and that it might be cured by a dose of that gas . |
| 30 | The restrictive covenant cases demonstrate that a covenant will not be upheld on the basis of the status of the information which might be disclosed by a former employee if he is not restrained , unless it can be regarded as a business secret or the equivalent of a business secret . |