Example sentences of "might be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union suggests that crofters get an automatic entitlement for up to ten cows and that sheep quota might be converted to cattle quota within the Highlands and Islands area . |
| 2 | So if you were on night duty , it was n't much use getting off early and going to bed for a couple of hours and then going to court — you might be engaged in court for a long time . |
| 3 | The objectives of this and the following two chapters are , first , to explain the meaning of money in a modern economy ; secondly , to show how the supply of money might be influenced by government policy and other factors ; and finally , to discuss the role of money in an economy . |
| 4 | He began in the autumn term and just before starting this new career he and Clinton van Sieclen wrote a paper on the theory of cold fusion , which concentrated on the muon catalysed fusion but had some prescient remarks about the possibility that fusion might be influenced by pressure and materials . |
| 5 | Whether Mr Larson will ever start his new job , scheduled to begin in June , might be disputed by Mrs Elizabeth Prophet . |
| 6 | How their roles might be enhanced in recognition of the behavioural literature will be examined to some extent in chapter 9 . |
| 7 | But this natural partially effective response might be enhanced by immunization , and recently a bacterial CTL epitope identified in mice using a class I motif has been shown to induce a protective response after immunization . |
| 8 | Terms were arranged on which the petition might be withdrawn upon payment of £3,000 . |
| 9 | It also suggests that , in the long term , ISPRA might be turned into Europe 's premier location for big-science machines . |
| 10 | For a moment Louisa wondered whether this platitudinous sentiment might be turned to advantage , but it could not be done without contrivance ; and when she looked up she saw how the Rector 's face aspired to bravery . |
| 11 | Yet , recognition of that extension might at the same time open up the possibility that vulnerable people who do not desire death , despite their suffering , might be killed by others for reasons of their own : this would subvert the right to self-determination , and is an argument against a mercy-killing defence or offence . |
| 12 | This might be treated as evidence that Gibbon uses an abnormally large number of abstract nouns , but of course it can not , for we might then discover that a preponderance of abstract nouns is quite normal in the prose of Gibbon 's contemporaries , and that Gibbon 's language in this respect is not exceptional . |
| 13 | Alien soldiers , who might be treated as traitors by invading Germans , were too much at risk so near the south coast . |
| 14 | As John Scoble , with his intolerantly rigid evangelical attitudes , rose to become a prominent administrator and organiser of antislavery bodies , he became a target as a sectarian who had apparently denounced one liberal-minded Quaker reformer as ‘ degenerate ’ for suggesting that the heathen might be treated with mercy . |
| 15 | began to help , thinking that she might either find some opportune moment for introducing her own problems , or that she might be treated with news of her mother 's latest triumph . |
| 16 | The Government 's business managers had to come to the rescue when it looked as though the Bill might be lost at Committee Stage . |
| 17 | The immediate impetus came from Cromer , the inhabitants of which pointed out that Sir Bartholomew Read 's sixteenth-century £10 was sufficient for only ten boys , and that a new school for eighty or a hundred might be built for £250 . |
| 18 | New Towns might be built at Ashford and Stansted . |
| 19 | Whereas if the weather is bad ( frosts ) the vine might be affected by millerandage , if it is too good it can suffer from coulure . |
| 20 | For example , the Heading tag might be defined as Times Roman 24pt on 26pt Bold Centred Unjustified . |
| 21 | Private law might be defined as law regulating the relations of private persons , whether individuals , corporations , or unincorporated associations , with one another . |
| 22 | With some organisations , the various subsystems may be so large that the boundary might be defined around accounts or personnel . |
| 23 | Tasks might be defined in terms of the processes they involve : calculating , ordering , representing and sorting etc . |
| 24 | Suppressed love might be expressed as heart disease . |
| 25 | Human resources might be expressed in terms of either since capacities can be transformed into abilities by training . |
| 26 | A sense of serious personal loss of self-worth and integrity ( invasion of personal space ) is certainly involved , and might be expressed by illness , depression , absenteeism , being touchy and impatient or withdrawn with clients or colleagues or by some other change in the worker 's usual pattern of behaviour . |
| 27 | America as a whole might be drunk with self-congratulation , but the Texans went further : they were totally unaware even of the other States . |
| 28 | Responsibility for these plans was divided between the tiers of local government after reorganization so that counties , metropolitan counties and the Scottish regions were responsible for the structure plans , which were understood , at first at least , to be of strategic importance , providing the framework within which local plans might be prepared by district councils . |
| 29 | to consider how the administration of the tests might be organized in schools ; |
| 30 | They might be eaten for supper with a ladleful of thick sourish cream poured over them . |