Example sentences of "[noun prp] might [vb infin] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory might have made a deliberate choice . |
| 2 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 3 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 4 | Accordingly , companies could find themselves in front of the Review Panel when an early discussion with the UITF might have saved an embarrassing discussion . |
| 5 | Severiano Ballesteros might have endured a long summer of discontent , pointing to both mental and physical problems for his loss of form , but his absence from the leaderboards , conspicuous though it might have been , is consistent with the capricious nature of the sport . |
| 6 | Wimbledon might have conceded a second goal on the stroke of half-time when Harford curled his shot narrowly over after a poor clearance by Segers . |
| 7 | What he asked was guidance in the matter of a young man 's death , a clean young man who handled lambs with gentleness and care , as lambs of God , and never deserved to be done to death suddenly before his time , however the love of God might have set a secure hand under him as he fell , and lifted him into light . |
| 8 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 9 | Are there no other types of thing for which Moore might have claimed a similar high value in isolation ? |
| 10 | Perhaps there was a glimmer of hope in 1949 when someone of the stature ( rather than the disposition ) of de Gaulle might have seized the burning brand ; and four years later Mendès France could face the unacceptable although by then there was practically no alternative . |
| 11 | Johnson devotes a long paragraph to the old woman 's but as Dr Livingstone might have described an African kraal . |
| 12 | Flaubert might have made a similar avowal — ‘ I leave two children , Bouvard and Pécuchet ’ — because his only child , the niece who became a daughter , had departed into disapproving adulthood . |
| 13 | Jimmy grinned — at any other time Leith might have had a quiet word with him about his cheek . |
| 14 | Any feelings of shyness Fabia might have endured the following morning at the thought of seeing Ven again were shortlived when she did actually see him . |
| 15 | And Julius Landor might have ruined a large chunk of her life , but he was n't going to ruin her birthday . |
| 16 | George Brown might have said the same . |
| 17 | She thought Emma might have got a commended or highly commended . |
| 18 | The light was not on in his room behind him , and from outside Mr Wolski might have seemed no more than an insubstantial shape , the reds and blues of his pyjamas now turned into grim black stripes against white , such as some of the prisoners in Nazi death camps of the Second World War had worn . |