Example sentences of "[pron] might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 2 | I take it that I do n't like modern art and yet I can imagine that while being the same person that I am I might have liked modern art . |
| 3 | But I might have taken other examples . |
| 4 | It 's a good thing I 'm very strong — otherwise I might have dropped dead , like an over-worked horse , after a week of it . |
| 5 | On the surface I might have seemed serene . |
| 6 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 7 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 8 | The memory chilled the warmth she could feel gathering inside her , the warmth which might have proved treacherous if she lingered here with this yes — definitely attractive man . |
| 9 | An insight into the way the official terrain is constructed can be gained by noting the exclusion of other categories , which might have yielded different ‘ problems ’ : ‘ Muslims ’ , ‘ Jews ’ , ‘ Catholics ’ , ‘ Protestants ’ , etc . |
| 10 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 11 | ‘ Was there anyone who might have felt jealous or resentful of this appointment ? ’ |
| 12 | But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised . |
| 13 | ‘ Can you think of anyone who might have paid large sums of money into your dad 's Swiss bank account in the last few months ? ’ |
| 14 | The building of the latter included the famous Talerddig cutting which , at the time , was the deepest cutting in the world and earned Davies recognition from his fellow civil engineers , who might have by-passed Welsh happenings in their field but for that . |
| 15 | One of the crucial issues in such studies is whether the time-lag allowed is the right one and had Walters allowed twenty instead of ten years , she might have reached different conclusions . |
| 16 | She might have had other irons in the fire as well . |
| 17 | There was the inevitable council estate , the houses painted pale green , blue , pink , as in some child 's drawing , and then , round a bend in the lane where you might have expected open fields , half a dozen houses of 1950s or '60s provenance , lavishly appointed , glamorously gardened , with big garages and big cars outside them . |
| 18 | ‘ You might have caught double pneumonia . ’ |
| 19 | Things one might have wished left unsaid |
| 20 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 21 | We might have got used to the names — Sites of Special Scientific Interest , Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty , Marine Nature Reserves , Environmentally Sensitive Areas — and perhaps even the initials , but how many people are aware of what they actually mean ? |
| 22 | I think we competed today but erm maybe one or two areas where I thought we might have got stuck in a little bit more you know , and we 're going to have to do that against Oldham I tell you because they 'll pass and have players that can do tricks erm good side are n't they ? |
| 23 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 24 | they only need washing , I mean I might be wrong , they might have , they might have gone funny , but I doubt it they 've not been up there that long really only about two |
| 25 | This in turn enables Janssen 's customers to start production or synthesis sooner than they might have thought possible . |
| 26 | They might have continued unabated until Henry II 's death , but two important factors altered the stakes for all the players in this complex game of dynastic skulduggery . |
| 27 | ‘ They might have looked easy chances , but I 've missed easier than that . |
| 28 | In January Pressler , sponsor of a 1985 law under which the USA had suspended economic and military aid to Pakistan in October 1990 on the grounds that it might have developed nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] , had claimed in January 1992 that Pakistan could manufacture two nuclear weapons [ see p. 38726 ] , anticipating a controversial admission by Pakistan 's Foreign Affairs Secretary , Shahryar Khan , who suggested that Pakistan had the expertise to assemble one nuclear device [ see pp. 38762-63 ] . |
| 29 | It might have gone unnoticed except that the dictionary is quite unequivocal about it . |
| 30 | It might have sounded embarrassing if I had said it , ’ I smiled . |