Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] might have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woosnam , who was playing with Parry , salvaged a 73 which left him sharing fifth place with Price , four off the lead , which was rather better than it might have been . |
| 2 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 3 | As your readers read they may be delighted with what you are doing , but when they reach the end of the book they will be less pleased with the whole rather than they might have been . |
| 4 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 5 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 6 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 7 | A GLASGOW bus driver said yesterday that he might have been blinded during an attack by a drunken passenger who had broken into his cabin and assaulted him as he drove through the city centre one Saturday evening . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the episode had shown the Government that it had no authority to ban newspapers published in Tanzania which were properly registered and also that it might have been in difficulty had it not discovered a technical irregularity in the case of Ulimwengu . |
| 9 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 10 | Because the quality of water was good and the price relatively low , it had not been used ‘ as wisely as it might have been ’ . |
| 11 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 12 | Presumably it had once housed families of civilian workers at the army camp , but before that it might have been the home of some isolated community of wild-fowlers or oyster-dredgers , with smuggling , probably , as their main source of livelihood . |
| 13 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |
| 14 | Did this , he was asked yesterday , mean that the economy had not been managed as well as it might have been during the Thatcher years ? |
| 15 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 16 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 17 | As I 've described it above , the process differs from modern multi-track technique , because the ‘ backing track ’ went through a number of generations , while modern multi-track tape recorders keep each layer separate ; so the technique was n't used as fully as it might have been , because the quality dropped each time . |
| 18 | In my case , several things made caring for my father easier than it might have been . |
| 19 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |