Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospitals might be privatised or turned into voluntary hospitals , as the Conservatives had favoured before 1946 . |
| 2 | suggested headings from which references might be constructed and inserted in the catalogue ( for example , Rural life ) . |
| 3 | Ponds with gently flowing water and artificial waterfalls might be constructed or existing streams diverted to help the accumulation of ch'i . |
| 4 | Clearly , the Authority perceived a risk that junior PNP appointees might be exploited or marginalized , and took steps to prevent this . |
| 5 | What other kind of lexical sub-system might be accessed when one reads a word aloud ? |
| 6 | Perhaps it might be disputed whether , after living in the USA for nearly half a century , Miss McPartland is still British . |
| 7 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 8 | RIGHT Always approach any stray dog with caution — it might be injured and could resent your attention . |
| 9 | A key player might be injured and have to be replaced . |
| 10 | On April 20 , however , Angolan radio warned that the government delegation might be withdrawn if UNITA continued " to intensify its military actions " . |
| 11 | Anne was excited and happy about the baby , but she began to worry that John might be killed before the child was born . |
| 12 | Of course the game can be played the other way round and even crude Austinian positivism might be treated as vindicated by the English criminal statute . |
| 13 | In a typical conversational pronunciation of these sentences , the first tone-unit of ( a ) and the second and fourth tone-units of ( b ) might be treated as intonationally subordinate ; the prosodic characteristics marking this are usually ( i ) a drop to a lower part of the pitch range ( ‘ low key ’ ) , ( ii ) increased speed , ( iii ) narrower range of pitch and ( iv ) lower loudness , relative to the non-subordinate tone-unit(s) . |
| 14 | Nor does their intelligibility ( irrespective of their truth or falsehood ) necessarily depend upon the intelligibility of some other statements that might be characterised as " irreducibly relational " — in the pluralistic sense of " relational " . |
| 15 | Darwin … showed that a natural history of mind might be written and that this method of study offered a wide and rich field for investigation . |
| 16 | Richard now admitted to himself that they might be lost after all but knew instinctively that saying so to Victoria would destroy the flattering confidence she placed in him . |
| 17 | For example , if the patient says ‘ I can not possibly measure my own blood glucose because I am at work all day ’ , the patient might be lost if the doctor were to insist . |
| 18 | Where possible , material which could be salvaged from old buildings or walls was recycled into the new fortifications , while in many places no indemnity was paid to those who were forced ‘ pro bono publico ’ to surrender property on which walls might be built or to provide the open ground , outside a wall , vital for effective defence . |
| 19 | The initial sums were often quite modest as football clubs tend to grow gradually , first drawing crowds on a casual basis and then fencing in a field and charging admission ; from this point a wooden stand might be built and earth piled up into which steps could be cut . |
| 20 | We shall be considering how new styles of relationship might be defined and generated ; relationships which would be more in tune with the increasingly influential changes in philosophy and policy , and which can support , in turn , the development of new professional attitudes and practices . |
| 21 | If the ‘ kinship ’ school may be located within the broader framework of a power or class analysis of society , the ‘ society-as-parent ’ supporters might be defined as belonging more to what might be termed a ‘ personal . |
| 22 | Operationally , this might be defined as those unplanned readmissions occurring within a ‘ short ’ ( but specified ) interval after the first discharge . |
| 23 | For example , the meaning might be expressed as follows . |
| 24 | In fact , the data which he cites lead one to a conclusion , which when transposed into terms closer to those used in this book , might be stated as follows : When an attributive adjective A qualifies a nominal head N , then , if we have referent-qualification ( which is by far the more common case ) the property of the adjective acts , in identification , independently of the property inherent in the noun . |
| 25 | They might be dressed as soldiers — he had noticed with growing suspicion that there were far more soldiers on the streets in recent months — or they might just be posing as ordinary officers of the law . |
| 26 | A group baking session might provide the real thing , and with careful supervision a real tea might be prepared and served as a special treat . |
| 27 | The Germans thought Danzig might be bombed but not Gdynia , since the latter is a Polish City . |
| 28 | The ‘ other professional officers ’ whose comments might be incorporated if appropriate would include not only the officers and advisers of the authority and centrally employed caring and counselling staff but also teaching and ancillary colleagues within the school . |
| 29 | While the house in the wife 's sole name with a fixed charge in favour of the husband facilitates the wife 's control of the property , this does not offer her the flexibility to move house that might be incorporated when the house is held by trustees until a specified event ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 30 | For example , it might be decided that the words savage and Negro should be replaced by some other terms in every definition in which they occur . |