Example sentences of "might be [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative way of examining this example might be to see the individuals as employees or representatives of the organisation , and thus as exercising the rights the organisation had gained for them through the treaty , independent of their member States . |
| 2 | Other requirements might be to agree the implications of a variation , in terms of time and cost , before it is instructed and to provide for keeping and agreeing contemporaneous records . |
| 3 | Add to this the possibility that by eating organic produce we might be filling the cornfields with poppies once again and I suspect that mere flavour often takes a back seat . |
| 4 | Similarly , a child might be taught the names of objects or colours when a generalised reinforcement — for example , ‘ That 's right ! ’ — consistently follows an utterance which names an object or the colour of an object . |
| 5 | If we want to find out about ancient people and the sites they used and constructed , our first thought might be to consult the archaeologists . |
| 6 | With this and a later inheritance he was able to indulge his passion for science by organising what might be considered the forerunners of today 's scientific conferences . |
| 7 | What Eileen had done , of course , when she reached the stage in her life when she might naturally have been considering starting a family , was subconsciously to ‘ invent ’ her illness in order that she might be spared the horrors of it all . |
| 8 | In fact the ack-ack unit , who thought , or hoped , they might be protecting the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret , in residence at Windsor Castle , almost missed the fun entirely , having been told the raid would be at 2 a.m . |
| 9 | Sadly this latter process , desirable as it might be to stem the antics of a few irresponsible councils , has spilled over into Local Government generally with the unfortunate effect that many responsible authorities have been greatly frustrated in their legitimate desire to provide adequate services in their area . |
| 10 | An alternative might be to investigate the effects on life history of making a diploid from two independent strains of a habitually haploid organism . |
| 11 | Fearing that the seat might be stolen the councillors arranged for it to be taken away for safe-keeping . |
| 12 | Fearing that the seat might be stolen the councillors arranged for it to be taken away for safe-keeping . |
| 13 | Given the inadequacy of the democratic control mechanisms , it was contended that an appropriate response might be to enhance the courts ' monitoring function . |
| 14 | The Principal , a frightful piece of lava from a volcano long extinct , actually insisted that I relinquish domestic tuition , simperingly permitted the murky phrase sexual harassment to hover in the air between us , and indicated that in the course of the aestival recess he might be reconsidering the terms and conditions of my employment . |
| 15 | Alternatively , enterprises might be suffering the consequences of poor job design in the form of disgruntled employees in soul-destroying jobs : the information era could mean the equivalent of the production-line chores epitomised in Charlie Chaplin 's Modern Times . |
| 16 | After all , they might be selling the results of a lifetime 's work . |