Example sentences of "might have been [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
| 2 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 3 | For a start , most dealers were young and ignorant characters who before drifting into their present positions might have been on the dole , or at University , or in menial office jobs , at which time they probably did n't even know what stocks and shares were . |
| 4 | It might have been on the Saturday . |
| 5 | It might have been on the table , obscured by this banner . |
| 6 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 7 | One time no a long time ago , which it might actually , might you might have been at the meeting , I do n't know . |
| 8 | The event which aggravates the offence might have been outside the defendant 's control . |
| 9 | Whatever understanding there might have been between the police and the BUF ended at this remark . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Browse in the gift shop or enjoy refreshment in the restaurant , and you can reflect for a few moments on how different things might have been without the events of 1066 . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's right , ’ he said , trying to think of why Hasan 's photograph might have been inside the locket . |
| 13 | He might have been in the mill . ’ |
| 14 | They are not linked in other ways , as they might have been in the past , as in mining villages , by other common bonds of interests . |
| 15 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 16 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
| 17 | The employer was forced to admit that no replacement had been engaged , which tended to indicate that a redundancy might have been in the offing . |
| 18 | Space there might have been in the Ark — but no dogs were allowed behind the pearly gates . |
| 19 | Sydney Smith had been wrong too ; it seemed that the country was not even a healthy grave ; though , judging from Edwin 's pusillanimous letter , Smith might have been in the right when he suggested that there were three sexes — men , women and clergymen ! |
| 20 | Julia knew that he might have been in the room while she was unconscious , but his absence during her times awake began to fret her . |
| 21 | But any flowers there might have been in the garden would probably have been eaten by the resident goats , rabbits and God-knows-whatever-else were around at the time , for the kind-hearted Edwardses never turned any sick or homeless creature away . |
| 22 | ‘ But there might have been in the outhouses ? ’ |
| 23 | Men who might have been behind the assassins . |
| 24 | They might have been upon the surface of the moon . |
| 25 | I believe that the Hon. Gentleman is talking about what might have been within the scope of new clause 6 had Mr. [ Mr. Deputy Speaker ] |
| 26 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |