Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [vb infin] [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a crime might have been committed and the child have to question witnesses . |
| 2 | This decision might have been regarded as one asserting the value of individual choice , but the Court put it on a rather different basis , saying that ‘ the implementation of the rights conferred on the employees by the Directive could not be dependent on the consent either of the transferor or of the transferee or of the employees themselves , wit |
| 3 | The Australian bren gunner might have been caught as he moved smartly back up the steep hill had not ‘ two natives appeared from nowhere ’ and carried his gun at a quick trot over the hill . |
| 4 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight . |
| 6 | This means we can work out how a given circle might have been produced or drawn : perhaps it was traced by the movement of one end of a rigid rod whose other end was fixed , perhaps by a weight whirled round on string . |
| 7 | A certain gentleman might have been punished if somebody had passed by and seen them . ’ |
| 8 | DeVore might have been lying when he said he had no motive in helping her , but he was right about Mach wanting her dead . |
| 9 | However , we can say that even historic cost accounting , in times of rising prices , does provide some indication of the extent to which capital might have been eroded or maintained , which as we have suggested earlier is potentially useful information . |
| 10 | And the w the road might have been widened but the houses are the same and er the er of course with a lot of The old factories have been pulled down , Mills was pulled down , that was a v very prosperous f factory at one time , when I was a boy , but er I 'm afraid that went according to you know the lack of trade . |
| 11 | Perhaps with a generous spirit on both sides some sort of accommodation might have been reached but before the possible constraints of the French Union became important there were more ominous developments , first in Vietnam , then in Paris , which would make a full-scale confrontation more likely . |
| 12 | If colonoscopy had been done the extensive nature of the disease might have been recognised and the patient would have entered the programme . |