Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
| 2 | He woke on top of her , she might 've been a beach , he might 've been abandoned there by waves . |
| 3 | It could , because you could put and a sailing boat might have been pushed on by the tide . |
| 4 | Some letters might have been regarded even in the late sixth century as being historically important ; the first two , which are among the earliest in the collection , are letters from Remigius , bishop of Rheims , to Clovis , the first Christian king of the Franks . |
| 5 | But the DIA would n't risk any action based on information that might have been traced back to one of Asmar 's people . |
| 6 | Collected elsewhere , these might have been written off as terrestrial contamination . |
| 7 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 8 | 2.27 There must also be a discount for the uncertainties of life : the fact that the deceased might have been run over by another bus on the following day or that he was involved in a particularly hazardous occupation . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought it might have been cleared up by now … |
| 10 | On Dec. 31 , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi was reported to have said that the Boeing might have been blown up by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in retaliation for Libya 's disclosures to the United Kingdom government of its former IRA links . |
| 11 | Babies ' christening robes were particularly affecting ; they might have been blown together by a soft breeze , so invisible was their stitching . |
| 12 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 13 | Like remarks might have been made elsewhere with respect to a required event , for example . |
| 14 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 15 | I can not help feeling that any good done might have been cancelled out by oil fires in the Gulf . |
| 16 | If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman . |
| 17 | He might have been thrown out by his girlfriend , but he was going round there still for meals and baths , so Bert had said . |
| 18 | ‘ She did n't look like one of the village matriarchs — she was quite small — ; but she might have been quarried out of the local slate . |
| 19 | Sara suddenly understood why James might have been brought along for the week-end to Moorlake . |
| 20 | It will take an enormous effort to make the world just a little safer , and the resources might have been used elsewhere to greater effect . |
| 21 | The idea that an accountant is examining only one set of accounts , of many , is anathema because it carries the implication that unwanted debits and credits might have been secreted away in these other accounts . |
| 22 | Going into the bedroom again she put on the oatmeal dress which might have been bought yesterday for fit . |
| 23 | Unofficial reports said that the incident might have been sparked off by a dispute over permission to build a mosque . |
| 24 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 25 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |
| 26 | That hard-fought win might have been deemed enough for the season , but his French owner was keen to run her little battler ( bred in France ) in the top French jumping event — in which he had finished second three years earlier — and so three months after the Gold Cup , when he might have thought himself to have earned a summer holiday , Mandarin was despatched to Paris . |