Example sentences of "might [verb] [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 2 | They say they have only tenuous evidence Gary might have been involved in drugs . |
| 3 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 4 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |
| 5 | Ninety one balls and one four , and not a typical DaSilva innings and one does wonders whether in the end it might have been better for Sri Lanka to play at a more natural game . |
| 6 | It might have been better at Vladimir for Holly than for the zeks herded into the communal cell blocks , but he had learned to eat what food was provided . |
| 7 | The All Blacks would treat such an outmoded approach with the scorn it deserves , although on the other hand they might have been impressed with Bridgend 's contrasting mobility and aggression . |
| 8 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 9 | Gordon suggested that the failure to find a left ear superiority for melodies , in contrast to Kimura 's ( 1964 ) results , might have been due to differences in the rhythm and/or pitch of the stimuli employed by himself and by Kimura . |
| 10 | Of course the absence of any such response to these sentences in the original version might have been due in part to their location in the story . |
| 11 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
| 12 | The truth is , I believe , that , while Eliot might have been fond of clubs , he was not , in the conventional sense , a clubbable man . |
| 13 | Though the match might have been short of entertainment , it was full of information from a technical viewpoint . |
| 14 | Would of made the job a lot easier might have been high on drugs . |
| 15 | The site was in a rural area in a particular situation where it might have been acceptable on planning and highway grounds but for the problems of smell and dust . |
| 16 | A division of labour , for example , might have been different in ways that would have affected the system of education . |
| 17 | If he had allowed her to take him back to London , he might have been stuck for life with a woman in her thirties ( and getting older by the day ) . |
| 18 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |
| 19 | It might have been easier after Brando 's end-of-shoot trashing of the film to the Toronto Globe And Mail . |
| 20 | It also appears that just as Belfast speakers can merge pairs like pack and peck , so it is possible that patterns of merger , or near-merger , of such pairs might have been observable in EModE . |