Example sentences of "[pers pn] might have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , you might have been a mere , much more happy about making a sacrifice for your brother , giving him a sweet , if you knew that on other occasions , he would give one to you , and because you are related to each other . |
| 2 | It might have been a suitable sales pitch for conglomerates shifting Blood Sweat & tears albums ; it produced some qualms amongst It staffers and others . |
| 3 | With 80 per cent of the seats in the arena again empty , it might have been a good opportunity to bus in the LTA 's young hopefuls to see for themselves what success in the game requires . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It might have been a comforting word here , a quick verbal lashing there . |
| 6 | It might have been a better picture . |
| 7 | And er yes i also , I would think , it 's a little unfortunate this chap happened to have his hand up on that er post there , yo you know , it 's a little bit er ungainly , it 's not sort of a very elegant sort of po I 'm not su suggesting he should pose for you , but I think , maybe had you waited until perhaps he moved his hand out of the way , it might have been a better erm composition . |
| 8 | Or it might have been a bigger concern than I ken . |
| 9 | Otherwise it might have been a great deal more difficult to ignore . |
| 10 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 11 | After all , ’ she went on , ‘ it might have been a private call — to a lover or someone . ’ |
| 12 | It might have been a religious conversion , in which the partner did not share . |
| 13 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 14 | Had Hagi played for Dinamo Bucharest , whose future is now in doubt because of its links with the notorious security police , Securitate , it might have been a different matter . |
| 15 | It might have been a different person . |
| 16 | Had either realized her knack of manipulating it might have been a different story , but Sarah never allowed her determination to show . |
| 17 | At least that was what Steven thought he had shouted ; it might have been a different number , but it was something like that . |
| 18 | If they had been , it might have been a different story , for Owen himself only carried arms when he had reason to believe he might need them . |
| 19 | But he added : ‘ I think it might have been a little bit too early . |
| 20 | ‘ It might have been a dozen so far as your conduct of the operations is concerned , ’ said one of Joyce 's companions . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you think it might have been a jealous woman ? |
| 22 | For Horace it might have been a short madness ; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore . |
| 23 | He might have been a natural broadcaster but for the quality of his scripts . |
| 24 | He might have been a minor orator , not quite in the senate , nor yet on the stage , more likely at the Bar of some prosperous provincial town ; in fact he had made his early and relatively modest pile in some wholesale business . |