Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's business managers had to come to the rescue when it looked as though the Bill might be lost at Committee Stage . |
| 2 | New Towns might be built at Ashford and Stansted . |
| 3 | ‘ Your opinion , then , as a medical man , is that a girl of eleven years old might be kept at work constantly , day after day , year after year , with the intermission of Sunday , without injury to her health ? ’ |
| 4 | They tend to be brittle , competitive and over-obsessed with their looks and who might be looking at them . |
| 5 | Open up the System Box , and you might be looking at an IBM . |
| 6 | In a month , she thought , in just a month , I might be looking at quite a different view . |
| 7 | Mr Morris helpfully gave a couple of scenarios as benchmarks for the kind of agency fees a bookshop might be looking at . |
| 8 | Erm but er I learnt to write a fair hand , erm without too many flourishes , which er because I was always told that somebody might be looking at this in a hundred years time , or more . |
| 9 | Erm , then it may well be for the benefit of Greater York that you might be looking at more than one settlement ? |
| 10 | yes so will this be right , that somebody towards the end of the sale period er might be looking at a brochure that was printed at least eighteen months ago and maybe longer ? |
| 11 | This implies that questions relating to skills and understanding of the same concept might be placed at different levels of a scheme . |
| 12 | However , convictions for rape are hard to obtain and defendants very often plead not guilty when charged , so that the symbolic advantages of such a change might be achieved at the expense of even fewer convictions for the conduct concerned . |
| 13 | The pilot scheme will cost £1.5m and ‘ if successful ’ might be extended at a cost of £35m . |
| 14 | The sing-song voice took all overt menace away , yet there was still a suggestion that collars might be felt at any minute . |
| 15 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 16 | The programme will continue , and might be expanded at some later , less fraught juncture . |
| 17 | A man might be sacked at an hour 's notice , perhaps after giving years of service , yet received no compensation , no redundancy payment . |
| 18 | Behaviour that might be tolerated at New Year 's Eve celebrations or at a football match could be regarded as disorderly at a solemn thanksgiving ceremony . |
| 19 | In a national quota sample , fifty constituencies might be selected at random , and then quotas set within each constituency on age , sex and employment status : interviewers would then have to find so many women , so many unemployed and so many young people . |
| 20 | Yeremi peered every which where for weapons which might be aiming at the now-inactive macro cannon on their carapace , or at their left shoulder where d'Arquebus was ensconced . |
| 21 | While one can see that a certain number of strategies might be conceived at corporate level before reference to the individual businesses , in general it is very difficult to see how this can be done at corporate headquarters unless the central authority has a careful analysis of the attractiveness and competitive strengths of the major SBUs . |
| 22 | A variety of investigations conducted within the USSR itself also suggested that Soviet nationalities policy might be achieving at least some of its objectives . |
| 23 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 24 | Hence the traditional alliance between catholicism and nationalism might be split at the popular basis with the ensuing growth of a degree of anti-clericalism . |
| 25 | He might be staying at Southampton , Long Island , with an American newspaper tycoon , or visiting distant American cousins at Newport . |
| 26 | Lisa might be living at my house . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose you must , ’ Rose said reluctantly , and Theda wondered if she had imagined all might be settled at once . |
| 28 | However this was a matter which he thought might be resolved at the trial . |
| 29 | In some situations holiday arrangements might be organised at a lower level in the organisation , particularly in specialist areas , such as operating theatres , where interchange of staff between departments is less easy . |
| 30 | These might be organised at those colleges which are part of the scheme and could also involve such organisations as CHIME , the RSCM , the Benslow Music Trust and the British Federation of Young Choirs . |