Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] might have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reconceptualisation which feminism is attempting has a direct and vital bearing on central philosophical issues , not only in political philosophy where it might have been expected , but also in epistemology , ontology , philosophy of mind , and ethics . |
| 2 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 3 | ‘ An excellent cake , miss , but perhaps a trifle overbaked , ’ Chignell said delicately , when Breeze remarked with a sigh that it might have been almond rock . |
| 4 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 5 | It might have been a technical failure or it might have been an action on the part of the operating crew or , indeed , a combination of both . |
| 6 | It never occurred to her until the Sunday evening that it might have been herself . |
| 7 | And came to the uncomfortable conclusion that it might have been a warning … |
| 8 | It is not , architecturally speaking , such an old town as it might have been , because there is only one house still standing built before 1558 , when invading Spaniards burnt the whole place down . |
| 9 | There has been speculation that he might have been the ideal Tory candidate for the Hexham seat if he had not already given his allegiance to Langbaurgh . |
| 10 | Had he stayed , there was every chance that he might have been forced eventually to join the Militia — a thing few Titfords would face with relish ; but most significant of all , perhaps — apart from his obvious inner resilience and entrepreneurial spirit — he had the singular advantage of having well-off relations to latch onto in London . |
| 11 | It is understood that Mr Major wanted her to be prisons minister , and there was speculation last night that she might have been reluctant to be back in harness with Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Home Secretary , who was her boss at the Health Department during the eggs affair . |
| 12 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 13 | ‘ If we 'd known , my father and I might have been able to help him ! |
| 14 | They stared at one another , and as her mama had so often said , and thought again as she watched them , they were so alike in every way except their sex that they might have been two sides of the same coin . |
| 15 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 16 | Imagining the scene , poor Cindy hustled out to some waiting car with one of Cashman 's beefy paws grasping her arm like a manacle , Matthew tried to repress the thought that it might have been exactly to escape such strong-arm tactics that the beautiful Cindy had vanished , Matthew said , ‘ Why do you think she might have come here ? ’ |
| 17 | The reporter did not disclose specific details of their chat , but the disclosure prompted concern that it might have been more confidential matters which could have been overheard . |
| 18 | A IT was Powdery Mildew and it might have been possible to save the Begonias . |
| 19 | And years of Mass and Devotions , the Sacred Heart Messenger and a thousand shoddy pieties , of no make-up , of becoming " a fine Catholic teacher " , of enacting someone else 's life as it might have been , as it would have been " with my advantages " . |
| 20 | Hence Juice was probably not as big a box-office success as it might have been , although it did make money . |
| 21 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 22 | Howard would have approved of the improvement in pay and conditions of service and greater emphasis on training but he might have been quite surprised at the eventual outcome of well-meaning initiatives . |
| 23 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 24 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
| 25 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 26 | The possibility that she might have been raped should have made him pause and perhaps pity , but his savage jealousy allowed no room for it . |
| 27 | What remains is regret , a persistent idea that they might have been happy in the homeplace , if only they could have survived there . |
| 28 | Indeed , the very necessity of reinterpreting an act as not deliberate presupposes the idea that it might have been . |
| 29 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 30 | It was partly true [ that we were not as good at TV as we might have been ] , but that was also partly distorted by how good we were at press . |