Example sentences of "might have been [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical examination question could ask for comment on , say , how the designers of Word for Windows might have been influenced by Ventura Publisher . |
| 2 | The embarrassment might have been felt as relief . |
| 3 | Patrick Marnham , though a diligent chronicler of the events of Simenon 's life , is equally soft on the books and the man ; the biography might have been written by Inspector Maigret himself , with his motto of ‘ understand , and do not judge ’ as its guiding principle . |
| 4 | as it might have been written by T.S . |
| 5 | as it might have been written by William Wordsworth |
| 6 | A farmer working a pair of shire-horses , and probably ably praying that the weather would hold , moved into his line of vision giving a touch of life to a scene that might have been painted in oils . |
| 7 | His Mr Sebastian of 1955 and the interesting Red Road of 1962 might have been painted in France or Germany rather than London . |
| 8 | In the negotiations in which the King now attempted to play off Parliament , Army and Scots against each other , he acted with a degree of duplicity which might have been justified by success ; it was disastrous , however , when his intercepted correspondence revealed the irreconcilable offers which he had made and his intention to go back on his agreements . |
| 9 | In answer to our persistent questioning , he bravely confessed the truth we had asked for — that Leslie and his men , in spite of the fact that they were wearing uniform , might have been shot as franc-tireurs . |
| 10 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 11 | It was also thought that NSF coalition proposals might have been connected to rifts within its own movement between conservatives and reformers . |
| 12 | North , carefully distracting Livingstone from the thought that hostages might have been ransomed for arms , gave him the Whole Picture . |
| 13 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 14 | A report in January 1990 to a parliamentary committee by a Green Party deputy , Giancarlo Savoldi , presented prima facie evidence that the returns for the Naples- Caserta area in the 1987 general election [ for which see pp. 35586-88 ] might have been affected by ballot rigging . |
| 15 | There was intense speculation that the whole peace process might have been derailed by Israel 's assassination of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Abbas Musawi on Feb. 16 [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 16 | Had he succeeded , Ireland might have been annexed to France , though , mind you , we 'd have been no better off than under England . |
| 17 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 18 | He sounds like the last playboy of the western world , who might have been born in London or New York but fell overboard from a boat between the two . |
| 19 | Embarrassed by his lack of courage , he wandered forlornly about the town , finding in an old church a copy of Titian 's ‘ Burial of Christ ’ that might have been done by Breton . |
| 20 | Ferguson 's promise was more praiseworthy than pondering how much Germany might have been holding in reserve . |
| 21 | ‘ And so , ’ said Floy , looking at Fenella , wondering how all this might have been received on Renascia , ‘ and so , we will set off . ’ |
| 22 | Until then he had suspected that the whole bizarre affair might have been kept under wraps by Morton and his cronies in the secret services , to see how it turned out . |
| 23 | A rate for an experienced expert for , say , 1990 might have been typified by £60 and for 1993 by £90 . |
| 24 | More distinction might have been made between Largo and Grave , perhaps , since both occur in the Concerti da chiesa ( Nos. 1–8 ) . |
| 25 | They might have been made of stone . |
| 26 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 27 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 28 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 29 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 30 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |