Example sentences of "might [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As is well brought out in a recent paper , the views of Carnap 's which Quine opposed involved the claim that conventionally adopted analytic linguistic frameworks provided criteria of reality , which set up the standards according to which any question that might arise was settlable ( Ricketts 1982 ) . |
2 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
3 | I do n't know whether , whether it might 've been worthwhile just questioning a bit more about the the link because he was obviously very keen on it |
4 | If I 'd ever done anything — made anything of myself more than a third-rate free-lance — it might 've been different . |
5 | This is so even though , inevitably , the amount that you might earn is variable . |
6 | Even when what few benefits might exist were pre-empted over my head by two strangers . |
7 | She could see that nothing could harm her , that there was no danger , that danger in so far as it might exist was desirable , and she started to walk , slowly , up the street , looking at those who looked at her , exchanging glance for glance , shivering in the warm April air from a tremulous , hopeful , artificial apprehension . |
8 | So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities . |
9 | He also believes that despite the crowd 's impatience with what they might think is play-acting , 95pc of players who get treatment on the field really do need it . |
10 | ‘ Parliament has deprived the courts of any power of detention of a person of this age or what many people might think was any effective punishment for that grave crime . ’ |
11 | Other ideas which might appeal are conservation work or playing a more active role in politics by joining your local party association . |
12 | Another one that you might consider is joint tenancy in common . |
13 | Others who might benefit are high-risk patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or idiopathic long QT interval syndrome with a history of cardiac arrest or a ‘ malignant ’ family history . |
14 | Knowing where assessment procedures might buckle is one thing . |
15 | This distinction between what would happen and what might happen is crucial for what follows . |
16 | They have no ‘ implication of utterance ’ : whatever meaning potential they might have is remote from any realization , since the contexts which would provide the occasion for their use are of unlikely occurrence . |
17 | The risk of losing what little bust they might have is enough to discourage many an overweight lady from commencing to diet , so this diet must therefore be good news for them . |
18 | I mean I think you 'll find that erm that there was an amaz you know I mean that , that while the language might have been simple it was n't simplistic and , but the change in a in a way now is around . |
19 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
20 | But if the then Prime Minister had been governing by decree based on policies formed by her own beliefs , credit might have been easy . |
21 | A hundred of these were ambushed by Corporal Aitken , unfortunately ahead of the platoon or his bag might have been greater . |
22 | In 1990–91 the figure was 2,853 , which is the third highest of that period ( 2,928 in 1985–86 , 2,952 in 1982–83 ) ; it might have been greater , for no manuscripts could be issued during the last five weeks of the year because of the installation of the new fire alarm system in the strong-rooms . |
23 | The prognostic value of this parameter might have been higher if the follow up of our patients had been longer , since some of the patients with high upper crypt labelling indeces who did not relapse might have experienced later recurrences . |
24 | The figure I think might have been higher if we had n't had some hot weather which er meant the fish were keeping rather low in the lochs , and it was difficult for the ospreys to find sufficient food . |
25 | For example , where 18 months ago the annual income on a level annuity might have been 13 per cent , now a new annuity might offer 12 per cent . |
26 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
27 | The speculation might have been premature but Rioch has since applied for the job . |
28 | Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower . |
29 | Mum and Dad 'd come , get interviewed by the Chief Inspector : ‘ Do you think , Mr Marquis , that your daughter might have been involved in something more serious — breaking and entering , drug trafficking ? ’ |
30 | Limerick being warned not to drink their tapwater , as local authority officials worried that cyanide might have been involved in the spillage . |