Example sentences of "might be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind characteristics might be slightly to the contrary of this , but are not nearly so definite . |
| 2 | After this , if there was to be an after , how could she live knowing what he might be up to , and the tight corners he could be getting into . |
| 3 | Although it is of course difficult to generalise , and some credit unions pay higher rates on savings than others , this difference in the return on savings might be up to around four per cent or so . |
| 4 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 5 | ‘ Lemarchand might be up to anything . ’ |
| 6 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 7 | Might be up to thirty . |
| 8 | Oh we had whistles , and strangely enough , very seldom did we use them , simply because there were other traffic about that time if you were a long way away , er you might be nearly to , if you blew your whistle , there were nobody to hear you , I mean people in houses , and they were only few and far between . |
| 9 | ‘ We might be on to something here , ’ murmured Esther , her scheming mind leaping ahead . |
| 10 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 11 | Trying to mentally recall a map of the island , the Doctor did n't think there was anything of importance further along the line inland , but he wondered what there might be out to sea … . |
| 12 | In post-industrial Britain both the self-satisfied and the desperate are able to feel justified in clinging on to what they have , or grabbing what they have n't ; at no time — even in the middle of the Live Aid telethon — is there a suggestion that there might be more to life than such behaviour . |
| 13 | Or there might be more to it than that . |
| 14 | And therefore in a sense , it might be down to departmental management that it was n't something that the suggestion system should encompass . |
| 15 | Someone with an elephant 's memory who might be about to finger Mills once and for all . ’ |
| 16 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be though to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 17 | He might be back to normal , but Robbie had n't forgotten the way he 'd turned on her last night . |