Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have been the Abyssinian maid , playing a dulcimer and singing of Mount Abora . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | T his morning , looming through a yellow haze , they might have been the eroded spires of a lost city of cathedrals , buried beneath the omnipresent sand . |
| 4 | They formed galleries , which seemed so regular they might have been the honeycombed nestings of some breed of super-lice that had reached an advanced accommodation with their host . |
| 5 | It might have been the blazing fire in the corner of this very upmarket restaurant . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It might have been the fourth 60 on Tour this season , but his 12-under-par return was the lowest to par ever in Europe . |
| 8 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 9 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the revelation of the Big Man 's round features above us might have been the full moon appearing to a pack of wolves , for the bolder souls watching started to bay abuse in Danuese . |