Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] might [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flora , of course , was nothing like my poor little mother , nor was her situation comparable , but one can not help being affected by memories , however irrelevant they may be , and , thinking of that other middle-aged woman deserted by her young lover , made me sorrier for Flora than I might otherwise have been . |
| 2 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 3 | Pity made her more friendly towards him than she might otherwise have been . |
| 4 | After the initiation of Clelia , she was to Clara less Surprising than she might otherwise have been , for the resemblance between mother and daughter was marked : the features were the same , though worn and lined by grooves deeper than mere wrinkles : the set of the conscious , curious head was the same , and the hair was the same , though streaked with white , and hanging with the benefits of expense , as well as of style . |
| 5 | What the chapel and the parish managed to ensure , in the last analysis , was that Betty 's last few years were less harrowing than they might otherwise have been . |
| 6 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
| 7 | She should be grateful that he was making things easier than they might otherwise have been . |
| 8 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 9 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 10 | There was also sadly a degree of controversy with regard to some records , making the work less valuable than it might otherwise have been . |
| 11 | There had been a morning of heavy rain before the event and this must have reduced the expected numbers present and made it more subdued than it might otherwise have been . |
| 12 | It served to make the Finnish detective rather sharper than he might otherwise have been . |
| 13 | A bonus was that he had been so fascinated by his earlier experience that his confidence in hypnotherapy as a whole had grown , and he was far more willing to undergo treatment than he might otherwise have been . |
| 14 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 15 | If it might reasonably have been foreseen that the pregnant woman might be injured by his carelessness , it must follow that the possibility of injury on birth to the child she was carrying must equally be taken to have been reasonably foreseeable . … |
| 16 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 17 | While they might not have been popular with the depot staff , the crews and passengers loved them . |
| 18 | You can probably find things to say about how well George and Marie have gone about co-ordinating their marketing , financial and personnel activities , and you could even ask yourself whether they might not have been wiser to expand ( if that is what they still want to do ) in a different direction altogether . |
| 19 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |
| 20 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 21 | What Eileen had done , of course , when she reached the stage in her life when she might naturally have been considering starting a family , was subconsciously to ‘ invent ’ her illness in order that she might be spared the horrors of it all . |
| 22 | She had seen no reason to abandon it when she came to Medewich two years ago , even though she might now have been able to afford a car . |
| 23 | And he did n't take much interest in my mother either and that put enough emotional pressure on her to maybe no , not be such a good mother as she might otherwise have been . |
| 24 | Towards the end of his life , assessing the course of events in India , Irwin did write that ‘ Though they might not have been able to put it into words ’ , the British people had realized |
| 25 | If even one of the many impurities had been highly toxic , as it might well have been , the non-toxicity of penicillin might have been completely masked , with unpredictable effects on subsequent work . |
| 26 | He happens to be called " Shakespeare " , but this does not make " Shakespeare " equivalent with " the man called Shakespeare " , for he might not have been called " Shakespeare " at all . |
| 27 | The way he flushed told Jenna clearly that though he might not have been involved he certainly knew about it . |