Example sentences of "might [verb] be [vb pp] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His Mr Sebastian of 1955 and the interesting Red Road of 1962 might have been painted in France or Germany rather than London . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 5 | She might have been housed in Gloucester Castle for three years , but before that … |
| 6 | Official figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed industrial production declining by only 0.6 per cent compared with the same period of 1990 — a lesser decline than might have been expected in view of the Gulf crisis . |