Example sentences of "if [pron] might be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 2 | My good sister , how happy should I be if I might be admitted to a conversation with you at your grate . |
| 3 | Chair , if I might be allowed just thirty seconds comment on the budget from the point of view of some of the central services . |
| 4 | She felt as if she might be struck by lightning if she stayed where she was . |
| 5 | ‘ You sound as if you might be angered by my suggestion , ’ said the counsellor . |
| 6 | Joe Burns lowered his voice , as if they might be overheard . |
| 7 | It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius ! |
| 8 | Where sewage disposal is also to be privatised one wonders whether there would be a standard charge , or if it might be metered . |
| 9 | In the part in which she was standing was a small table and two chairs and an iron contraption that looked as if it might be used for some form of heating . |
| 10 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 11 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 12 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 13 | He was very apologetic , and looked as if he might be taken away and hanged for the delay . |