Example sentences of "the [noun sg] might [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior London police officer was attempting to attract black recruits into the police force , whilst denying that racism in the force might have deterred black people from joining in the past : ‘ Racism in the force is not the main reason for black people preferring not to apply . |
| 2 | The compliment might have delighted any other woman , but the whispered words made Beth 's heart sink . |
| 3 | The next part of the story is pure circumstance but the effect might have saved poor Mr Cubbage 's life . |
| 4 | No one asked the matron if she thought the boy might have done this to silence Charley rather than avenge his mother . |
| 5 | Equally problematic is the validity of Sidonius 's very cultured presentation of the barbarian courts of Theodoric II , Euric and Chilperic I. Here , the author might have had political reasons to present the barbarians in as positive a light as possible . |
| 6 | It does not even occur to the reader that the baby might have cried one year in Singapore and be picked up by its mother a year later in Aden . |
| 7 | The nagging doubt remains , however , that the thing might have looked blue to me , and that I had simply not realised that it was to the thing 's colour that I was expected to respond . |
| 8 | R.A.F. records about the special mission and the destination in the Morvan tally with those of the S.A.S. Apparently reports from the two other aircraft suggested to the air force authorities that the plane might have hit high ground , since the cloud-base was very , low . |
| 9 | If he was really up to no good the situation might have turned awkward — though as it happens he was perfectly civil , and I was n't nervous . ’ |
| 10 | were all pre-selected for Amytal testing because there was some suspicion , based on the results of psychological tests or on the extent of left handedness in the patient 's family , that the patient might have shown some departure from the typical dextral pattern of left hemisphere dominance . |
| 11 | In fact the proximity of the stone might have had little to do with Elsie 's death . |
| 12 | They have explained that the exemption might have seemed appropriate in Hale 's time but is incompatible with the status of married women today . |