Example sentences of "might be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chapter on Explaining made trouble for Positivist ideas of explanation but did not suggest that they might be beside the point . |
| 2 | The case established that there can be more than one occupier of the same premises , although the duty required of each might be different : e.g. a seaside promenade might be under the control of a local authority and the water authority as part of the sea defences . |
| 3 | Local transport agencies should be asked to consider changes in timetabling or re-routing where this might be to the benefit of staff . |
| 4 | The ability of the politician to provide patronage , of whatever nature , was never more than a tool of management , and however useful it might be to the man who could supply it , patronage in itself did not remove the need for active and continuous management of the voters included within the interest . |
| 5 | Burgess did n't much like leaving whatever risk there might be to the Inspector , but he did as he was told . |
| 6 | The peasant might be at the bottom of the pile , but he still had rights to own or work common land and thus the certainty of providing some food for the survival of himself and his family . |
| 7 | This choice might be at the level of choosing what to output to the process along a particular channel , or of choosing ( via an ALT with communication guards ) which channel to communicate on . |
| 8 | There was the sensation of immense speed now ; he thought the skies were rushing past him , and there was a whirling , dizzying feeling , as if he might be at the centre of a maelstrom . |
| 9 | Twice a week it might be at the moment . |
| 10 | I thought of going to see Celia , and then I thought she might be at the hospital , for the tissue-typing results — ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It might be worth the price of a new car to get away from you ! ’ she seethed , letting off the handbrake . |
| 12 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 13 | If you have large draughty windows on the east- and north-facing walls , it might be worth the expense for the resulting extra comfort . |
| 14 | If this was jewellery , she could not possibly accept it , no matter how appropriate it might be for the gown she was wearing . |
| 15 | An alternative strategy might be for the archivist to get in early in the life of information systems , probably even at the design stage , to imbed selection criteria of some sort into them . |
| 16 | If this is the case , an incentive to improved health might be for the counsellor to talk to them about ways and means of increasing their social contacts and involvement when they get better . |
| 17 | An alternative form might be for the corporation to sell a proportion of its products at strictly cost price to those sections of the community who are under-privileged and in need of these occasional subsidies . |
| 18 | But the purpose of all this is summed up in the phrase : ‘ that we … might be for the praise of is glory ’ ( v 12 ) . |
| 19 | It 's been estimated that this might be of the order of one cubic kilometre per year . |
| 20 | From what was said in Chapter 4 , the reader will appreciate that there could be several hundred variates and , of course , in the case of a census , n might be of the order of millions . |
| 21 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal , Lord Donaldson MR taking the high ground that the function of the independent judiciary under the rule of law was simply to decide whether there had been compliance with the statute requiring the holding of a ballot , however unpopular the strike might be with the travelling public . |
| 23 | It might be on the top |
| 24 | Prudently , they had got into the Jubilee Line train at Finchley Road , in case someone they knew might be on the platform at West Hampstead . |
| 25 | No , they might be on the dole or what they used to call the Board of Guardians something like that . |
| 26 | And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club . |
| 27 | SIGNS that the economy might be on the upturn come with another major East Anglian employer back in profit . |
| 28 | Today the firm offers connectivity products supporting Santa Cruz Operation Unix , Unix 5.1 , and IBM 's AIX — Craine says Sun Microsystems , Hewlett-Packard and DEC flavours of Unix might be on the agenda sometime in the future , though nothing is imminent . |
| 29 | I have hope that Ndlove might be on the agenda |
| 30 | I was n't nervous , but I might be on the night . |