Example sentences of "might be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sometimes I cough , as if I might be on the verge of tears . |
| 32 | Maybe that , and any other lesser problems had now been sorted out and we might be on the verge of going home . |
| 33 | Were you worried that I might be on the verge of getting married , too ? |
| 34 | There will need to be an assessment of which overseas markets offer the most opportunities at the same time as looking for early signs of local companies being eyed by competitors as ripe for merger or acquisition , forecasting what the effects of this might be on the locality . |
| 35 | The case was so complicated that it has already generated at least two books ( Crouch and Marquart 1989 , Martin and Ekland-Olson 1987 ) and more might be on the way . |
| 36 | Some media at any moment might be on the way in ; others on the way out . |
| 37 | For your chance of a night to remember , just unscramble this word to reveal what might be on the menu . |
| 38 | The shoes and socks might be on the floor if the patient is capable of reaching down for them . |
| 39 | The optimists tried to suggest that Garner and Holding might be on the wane ; the realists knew better . |
| 40 | He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far . |
| 41 | There seemed no point when the whole place might be on the point of closing , and she herself and Steve in prison . |
| 42 | The answer might be on the pier or in a boat . |
| 43 | This might be on the basis of a particular attribute such as colour or shape , or a more abstract quality such as use or even ‘ because I like them ’ . |
| 44 | ENGLAND vice-captain Alec Stewart has been re-appointed captain of Surrey for the 1993 cricket season , ending suggestions that his job might be on the line after the TCCB found the county guilty of ball-tampering . |
| 45 | The very optimism of the possibility that the miners might be on the move against the government carried with it a premonition of pessimism , that the miners would save the working class when it could not save itself . |
| 46 | Mr Hopps later mentioned to the Cypriots that the Kanakaria mosaics might be on the market . |
| 47 | These were now about two years old , so he hoped he might be amongst the prize winners in the next five years . |
| 48 | The relics under the altar took the place intended for the bishop 's burial , so that ‘ He who suffered for all might be upon the altar , and those redeemed by his passion beneath it ’ . |
| 49 | The hostile rocks cape in the midst and partly on top of which Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin has been built also made me wonder whether skiers ever think about what might be underneath the snow they are skiing on . |
| 50 | Livingston said : ‘ I gave that straight to the British doctor in Barcelona because that is the only thing I could even remotely think might be behind the drug result . |
| 51 | In November church bells were rung to celebrate the victory at El Alamein , and everyone felt that at last the war might be near the end , although Churchill told them they were wrong . |
| 52 | A woman soldier was present , presumably to reassure any women who might be in the household . |
| 53 | Now slowly breathe in and out and imagine the scene that might be in the backdrop . |
| 54 | And then the old man might be in the back yard somewhere and he could here that the bell going . |
| 55 | If we shoot you against a blank wall you might be in the middle of the city , or in the studio , or anywhere . |
| 56 | it might be in the centre of the P L C C's . |
| 57 | It might be in the lounge . |
| 58 | The launch pad might be in the way , pushing on us from that end to stop us doing the natural thing which is to fall vertically through to the centre of the Earth . |
| 59 | Looking back , I suppose I was worried someone might be in the chamber . ’ |
| 60 | A place to look for such mechanisms , as T. J. Clark has suggested , might be in the content of modernist and proto-modernist works of art . |