Example sentences of "might [vb infin] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The learning that is expected from the accompanying ward experience can be made explicit , and here the names of the staff who might act as resource personnel can help the new learner particularly . |
| 2 | Here was a storeroom of statuary of deceased Sagramosos , exiled at the accession of a new Lord , though not condemned to be crushed to dust — their sheer enduring weight might act as anchor to the multi-thousand year dynasty . |
| 3 | Nithard does so , however , while the author of a curious single annal for 830 – 1 , tacked onto the Prior Metz Annals ( the last entry otherwise was for 805 ) makes Judith the central figure in the story , and explains the 830 rebellion in terms of her stepsons ' hostility to her and her " very goodlooking son Charles " who " they feared might succeed as heir in his father 's realm " . |
| 4 | Suppressed anger and resentment , for example , might re-emerge as cancer or arthritis . |
| 5 | In general , from 1450 onwards , non-European Christians were taught theology to a level at which they might function as parish priests , but they were not admitted to the religious orders such as the Jesuits and the Dominicans . |
| 6 | It was clearly a short-term appointment , arguably calculated to reassure members of the renamed Overseas Civil Service that , at a time when morale might falter as career opportunities shrank with the imminence of independence , at least one of them and not ‘ a Whitehall warrior ’ was at the helm . |
| 7 | Originally , before universal printing standardised the written language , the educated people in different parts of the country wrote words down in different ways , so that a monk in Whitby might spell as book what one in Ely would spell buk because of local accents . |
| 8 | Demirel had previously pledged to remove President Özal from power , but on Oct. 24 , possibly influenced by the narrowness of his party 's victory over the ANAP , he declared that Özal might continue as President — an office to which he had been elected for a seven-year term in October 1989 . |