Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That too might be characterised as a courageous move — but nothing like as courageous as that of James Burke and his cohorts in deciding that the right man to dig IBM out of its hole was outsider Louis V Gerstner Jr . |
| 2 | A Hollywood studio decided it was not safe to make a picture about the peacemaker , Hiawatha , because ‘ It might be regarded as a message for peace and therefore helpful to Communist designs ’ . |
| 3 | Should a man 's life succeed in influencing and converting others then that might be regarded as a true and valid form of evangelism . |
| 4 | Killing then might be regarded as a moral duty in certain circumstances in spite of the instinctive horror we might feel about the destruction of living beings . |
| 5 | It was his passionate conviction that sarvodaya , which might be regarded as a practical expression of Truth , could only be effected by means of ahi sā , and the votary of ahi sā would be prepared to sacrifice himself in order to realize this ideal . |
| 6 | But , according to Haksar , what has also to be taken into consideration is the risk of violence that might result from not allowing people to express their feeling and here civil disobedience might be regarded as a safety valve . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's gone through what might be regarded as a quiet spell this season , ’ said Clough . |
| 8 | Outside Ulster , the proposed force might be regarded as a return of the B Specials . |
| 9 | Presumably men of modest means would scarcely have qualified , but only 502 were worth £20 and upwards , and 406 had £40 or more , a figure that might be regarded as a reasonable minimum for a substantial businessman . |
| 10 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 11 | That fact standing alone might be regarded as a not unjust consequence of the Home Secretary 's policy . |
| 12 | 29996 preserves many more of his compositions , together with an alternatim organ Mass by another St. Paul 's musician Philip ap Rhys , who succeeded him as organist , and a considerable number of organ works ( including the Proper of a Mass for Easter Day and eight ‘ Felix namque ’ which might be regarded as a set of variations though they were not of course played as such ) by Thomas Preston ( d. c. 1564 ) , organist of Magdalen College , Oxford , and later of the Chapel Royal at Windsor . |
| 13 | If there is a small degradation of performance when 15 or more machines are in use but otherwise the network is fine , this might be regarded as a breach of warranty . |
| 14 | The letter was carefully worded — it hinted that the offer might be regarded as a debasement of his talent , but if he were not too sensitive about this he might be prepared to accept the fee which was negotiable . |
| 15 | The early part of the present century was quiet in volcanic terms , and the warming might be explained as a result of dust clearing from the stratosphere , while the recent cooling trend coincides with increasing volcanic activity . |
| 16 | While the General Strike might be viewed as a watershed by some historians who feel that the trade union position worsened considerably after 1926 , this was clearly not the case ; trade unions were less frequently attacked by employers after 1926 than before and the pace of wage reductions slowed considerably . |
| 17 | However , these are not attributes of an individual as such , which for fairness might be viewed as a necessary condition . |
| 18 | To some extent the work might be categorised as a study in the various possible kinds of orchestral glissandi ; or indeed as a specious of tuba concerto , for that instrument , so evocative of whales and fog-signals and ships ' sirens , often plays a quasi-obbligato role . |
| 19 | A set of criteria might be given as a list , but it is more likely that at least some of the relationships between individual criteria will be indicated . |
| 20 | And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life . |
| 21 | As just one example , beer might be seen as a soft drink in some countries ( around the Mediterranean ) and as an alcoholic drink in others . |
| 22 | In Bradford , it was even suggested that the General Strike might be seen as a victory : |
| 23 | There was a project to get artists to work on panels for a long wall , concrete posts and lintels with a brick infill , that might be seen as a possible module for paintings or some other art form . |
| 24 | Health might be seen as a public good , but illness is now a market opportunity . |
| 25 | Breach of confidence might be seen as a special case since once the subject matter of the confidence is published the position can not be retrieved . |
| 26 | There is a further danger where community languages have been brought into the curriculum on a par with foreign languages that this concession might be seen as a sufficient response to the failure of the education system for black children as a whole . |
| 27 | What from the central perspective might be seen as an instrument of public expenditure control , from the local level might be seen as a threat to the fabric of local government itself . |
| 28 | The offences of organisation and participation are made subject to what might be seen as a kind of impossibility defence . |
| 29 | ‘ While climatic geomorphology proper might be seen as a valuable adjunct to applied pedology and applied ecology in understanding the operation of landscape systems at the present , climato-genetic geomorphology ( Büdel , 1963 ) which relies on the principle of actualism in historical studies is less readily tenable … |
| 30 | The solution of such limited problems might be seen as a triumph of " method " as much as a source of new knowledge . |