Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] might [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , even the most basic repairs had been neglected for many years before that , so that structural problems developed where they might have been avoided . |
| 2 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 3 | Early observers who saw otters surfacing with abalones noticed that the abalone shells were often damaged , suggesting that they might have been removed by force . |
| 4 | ‘ You are not suggesting that she might have been sacrificed in some demoniacal ritual , are you , Burney ? ’ |
| 5 | She wondered whether to ask Mrs Baggley if she realised that she might have been the last person to see or hear of Paul Gray alive . |
| 6 | The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago . |
| 7 | She even had the audacity to suggest that I might have been ‘ carrying on ’ with Sir Vivien . |
| 8 | It was easy to imagine that it might have been Camelot , like in the picture story-books I 'd read . |
| 9 | And I accept that he might have been upset but there are no polemics , so why destroy a great victory ? |
| 10 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 11 | The evaluators found that the guide was less well used that it might have been and consider ways in which a guide might fit into the ‘ socially-oriented ’ structure of the training year . |
| 12 | Death from a drug overdose was the conclusion reached after she committed suicide , though speculation existed that she might have been murdered . |
| 13 | To Cnut and some of his contemporaries this world still mattered , and evidence of this has been found where it might have been least expected . |
| 14 | Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way . |
| 15 | In any other circumstances , Fabia felt that she might have been a trace worried — it was n't every day that she was in a foreign land , with a foreign male who , having fed her , tried his hand at seducing her . |
| 16 | Julia knew that he might have been in the room while she was unconscious , but his absence during her times awake began to fret her . |
| 17 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |
| 18 | The little blue trolls from space , the black-eyed pointy-chinned grey things in charge , the anal probing they inflicted on Christopher Walken inside something that looked like it might have been a UFO , event he awe-inspiring ham standard of Walken 's performance — they were all OK . |
| 19 | I thank Mr Reckord for now admitting that he might have been insensitive in his remarks . |
| 20 | ‘ We are beginning to think that it might have been someone from his past , ’ Bragg said . |
| 21 | Chatterton thought this event had occurred on the afternoon of the tenth of January , although he did concede that it might have been the eleventh . |
| 22 | I just wonder whether it might have been somewhere like — ’ |
| 23 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 24 | She had been instrumental in putting him in touch with Liza although , as things had turned out , he could not help thinking that it might have been better if he had never bumped into her that day in Piccadilly . |
| 25 | AS the Chancellor prepares for his budget next month and contemplates the unenviable situation in which he finds himself , he might be excused for thinking that it might have been better to move last September . |
| 26 | AS the Chancellor prepares for his budget next month and contemplates the unenviable situation in which he finds himself , he might be excused for thinking that it might have been better to move last September . |
| 27 | ‘ As you realize , ’ he said , ‘ we have been thinking that she might have been murdered outside the City boundaries , and brought in on a meat barrow . ’ |
| 28 | The architect owner admits that it might have been better to regard the converted building primarily as a house and to order priorities for the location and constructional ‘ envelopes ’ of rooms accordingly . |
| 29 | The development , not always as carefully planned as it might have been , of two sets of responsibilities — pastoral and academic — obviously needed to be integrated if confusion and conflict were to be avoided . |
| 30 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |