Example sentences of "might be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another technique might be to put a primary source alongside a later secondary account , inviting pupils to explore the differences between primary and secondary sources . |
| 2 | I do n't tell no lie , I was goin' to ask 'im for the loan of a bob so 's I could get to see this bloke that might be puttin' a bit of business in me way . |
| 3 | The lines on his brow might be etched a touch more deeply and there was the stray glint of silver among the thick dark hair at his temples , but Vitor d'Arcos remained … not handsome — his nose was too arrogant and his jaw too hard-hewn for that — but an arresting-looking man . |
| 4 | Another refinement might be to use a disc-based " spelling checker " , which highlights words in the text that the computer can not find in its vocabulary of 40–50,000 words . |
| 5 | With Hartie mortally wounded by the vengeful NZRU council , Kirwan has now made himself available and the newly appointed backs coach Earle Kirton has been heard suggesting that ‘ King John ’ might be assigned a new role at centre , a position he is successfully filling for his second division Italian club Thiene who are coaches by another Kiwi , John Boe . |
| 6 | Let me look in your eyes and see you might be getting a wee bit bloodless actually I mean that 's the other thing Cathy , you 're a bit pale in there . |
| 7 | But recently , including today 's CBI distributive trades survey , there have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things really might be getting a little better . |
| 8 | I might be getting a barbecue with |
| 9 | He 's he 's might be getting a job , I do n't know what he want he does n't really know what he wants to do yet |
| 10 | but he might be getting a job felting roofs , putting roofs and and |
| 11 | One way of overcoming judicial resistance might be to incorporate a sentencing council as part of the Court of Appeal , and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders has recently advocated this as a compromise solution ( NACRO , 1999d : 33 ) . |
| 12 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 13 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 14 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 15 | HEAVY with prizes from Venice , She 's Been Away ( BBC1 ) was , superficially , one of those pieces in which a major star offers what might be called a Complex Simpleton performance . |
| 16 | He was a Marxist and might be called a ‘ Christian Communist ’ , but he could not answer the question ‘ was he a communist ? ’ directly , he could only state his beliefs . |
| 17 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |
| 18 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 19 | Hurtling along the open track and through what might be called a blinding blizzard , the C.P.R. ‘ Special ’ carried Gladstone Murray and his party to Regina in just over an hour . |
| 20 | Meanwhile in 1766 , Edward Snape , farrier to George III and to the second troop of Life Guards , published a proposal to establish in London what might be called a ‘ teaching hospital ’ for instruction on the diseases of horses . |
| 21 | There was a long silence — what I think might be called a pregnant pause . |
| 22 | By keeping the lower vee steeper than the other , we introduce what might be called a ‘ tail-effect ’ , so keep this in mind when you are practising for that first Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 23 | Yet here was express permission to do so ; what might be called a farter 's charter . |
| 24 | This might be called a ‘ metalinguistic ’ strategy since it involves self-conscious reflection on words — their history , their etymology , even sometimes their spelling . |
| 25 | My favourite way is to introduce what might be called a ‘ gathering row ’ . |
| 26 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 27 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
| 28 | It is what might be called a self-perpetuat-ing oligarchy with mild , but only mild overtones of plutocracy . ’ |
| 29 | They applied what might be called a Morellian analysis , recording precisely the minute details of the ancient works , dividing statues into as many as 300 measurable parts , and entering the results into a database . |
| 30 | Rather , the position is best characterised by what might be called a ‘ regulatory paradox ’ . |