Example sentences of "might have [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 're just I 'm just we might have to ask for some money for it . |
| 2 | Mary 's authoritarian treatment of customs duties might have compensated for that decline , had not Elizabeth and Burghley allowed inflation to erode their true value . |
| 3 | But while the FA Cup can still turn dreams into reality , the Second Division might have to settle for one representative at Wembley after tomorrow 's semi-finals . |
| 4 | An early marriage and five children would have tempered most women 's ambitions and had Emecheta 's marriage been happy , she might have settled for domestic life . |
| 5 | Public-sector housing provision , which might have allowed for greater mobility , declined in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 6 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |