Example sentences of "might be put [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though they might be putting off buying new carpets or curtains , they have continued to buy holidays . ’ |
| 2 | Government plans to ‘ market test ’ establishments , investigating which services might be put out to tender , represented ‘ the cutting edge of Government policy to destroy public service and weaken public sector trade unions , ’ he said . |
| 3 | One thing parents ca n't afford — especially our sort of parent — is that the whisper might be put about that they had been willing to toy with their own children 's safety . |
| 4 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 5 | The concept of indirect discrimination was , according to the councils , at first unfamiliar to police , who also saw no reason why black candidates might be put off by the former question three — which asked the country of origin of spouse or lover 's parents . |
| 6 | Girobank also makes loans , with the attraction for people who might be put off by the image of conventional banks that the transaction is entirely postal . |
| 7 | I have heard it suggested that there is some danger that prospective buyers might be put off by the idea that their units have been used in this way . |
| 8 | The style of the letter , the conversation , the catechism , or the lecture appealed to those popularizing science and afraid that the neophyte might be put off for life by too dry a style . |