Example sentences of "[art] [noun] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the evidence at the trial , only Zaidie bore witness to the defendant 's telephoned confession , but the defence might have promoted a viable theory of conspiracy if they had been able to show that Matadial had also testified to a confession , then resiled from it in her deposition , taken the offensive again in her addendum and finally opted for a female voice in her evidence . |
| 2 | He pauses , his mind running over the sort of life the couple led , the pressures , the way the split might have come . |
| 3 | If we had included more papers in the sample the coverage might have appeared more dense , but nevertheless it is clear that it is a minority of unusual cases which get most press exposure . |
| 4 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the fact that some patients had already failed to respond to tricyclics before entering the trial might have introduced a bias against this class of drugs . |
| 6 | In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction . |
| 7 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 8 | The NEB itself seemed to imply more than prospecting might be going on : ‘ It has been suggested that some of the investigations might have been more extensive than might normally be expected . |
| 9 | The McLaggans were spoiling for a fight and I thought the lairds might have the mettle to retaliate . ’ |
| 10 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 11 | There are many cases which end up being settled at a figure considerably higher than that for which the case might have settled , say , 1–2 years previously . |
| 12 | We have to have recourse to what Stenning calls ‘ abnormal ’ contexts , where the analyst reads the text and then has to try to provide the characteristics of the context in which the text might have occurred . |
| 13 | If the play did end at this point , the real anticlerical joke would be that the Interludium does not go on to the successful trick as the audience might have expected and the clerk might have hoped . |
| 14 | The results suggested that the birds might have sharply tuned preferences only slightly displaced away from siblings when normally reared . |
| 15 | The description might have more applicability if there were rights enforcement officers to aid unrepresented applicants . |
| 16 | The foundations might have been securely laid if he had got to Walsingham . |
| 17 | Damian 's deep voice drawled , and Rachel suddenly realised she was clutching her glass so tightly that the stem might have cracked . |
| 18 | If only Kinnock had been able to show us this side of himself when he was still Leader of the Labour Party , the election might have had a very different result . |
| 19 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 20 | Had he merely handed the delivery order to G for return to A , the decision might have been otherwise , but by endorsing it to G he had gone far beyond what was necessary to secure the return of it to A. |
| 21 | ‘ If they are unable , the decision might have to be re-considered . ’ |
| 22 | Naturally , losing an order is a serious matter , but with job production it normally means waiting a short period before being asked to quote again for a different job , whereas with flow production it might be two years before the model is changed and the opportunity is provided to quote again ( by which time the buyer might have forgotten the existence of the salesperson ! ) . |
| 23 | If the IMF had been a major borrower and issuer of SDR-denominated assets then the SDR might have been used more extensively . |
| 24 | But , as the figure also shows , the dose of LiCl used was sufficient to produce an almost total aversion in the subjects naive to the CS , and thus a difference between the groups might have been obscured by a ‘ floor effect ’ — by a lack of sensitivity in the test ( see also Misanin , Blatt , and Hindenliter 1985 ) . |
| 25 | One task while this is going on is to observe how the groups are working , who is too dominant , who is too isolated , and what adjustments to the groups might have to be made . |
| 26 | Eventually the experience might have to be repeated , in her own defence , but she could not hope to find much more in it than she had found in this first venture . |
| 27 | ( With 300,000 unemployed the leeway is limited for flag-waving packages , but the rules might have changed with the exception of only one Bank ) . |
| 28 | Indeed , the look might have been interpreted as one of ferocity if there is such a thing as a ferocious duck . |
| 29 | If the skills are not immediately applicable then neither students or pupils nor faculty staff or teachers will respond , even though the skills might have pertinence at all levels . |
| 30 | The mare might have been kicked by another horse . |