Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] might have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traders who might have started a line in meal for the populace would not even think of it , knowing that the government was always ready to step in and depress the price . |
| 2 | The position in the District was exacerbated by the absence of other cohesive groups such as trade unionists or co-operative societies in rural areas who might have provided cadres of people for active WEA membership . |
| 3 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 4 | Most of the leading Conservatives who might have hoped to succeed him were disqualified as supporters of the Lloyd George Coalition , and the succession went to the relatively unknown Chancellor of the Exchequer , Stanley Baldwin . |
| 5 | Molly had gone round the party trying to pick up information , listening for hints dropped during casual conversations and there , talking to her own children and eating nougat , was the girl who might have told her almost everything . |
| 6 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 7 | Really to protect members of the management team who might have made a decision . |
| 8 | Now VAT men have earned an unfortunate reputation for not exactly being the sort who might have graduated from the Lucy Clayton school for charm and social deportment . |
| 9 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 10 | Now of course er we 've sold the er chain of chemists in Canada who might have sold bottles of aspirin but , before we sold the chain , there was another enormous quantity of bottles of aspirin which was n't defined , it was something which was introduced after , long after we defined what we meant by outputs of aspirin . |
| 11 | This compares with one in four of those living in the community who were felt to have relatives who might have helped more — a difference which might well occur by chance . |
| 12 | ‘ Customers who might have refurbished steel or paper mills have been seriously affected by recession . |
| 13 | Anybody who might have been er at the Tesco store on Saturday any time during the day who might have seen the pony or even people who walk their dogs because the field 's used quite extensively for dog walkers . |
| 14 | ‘ Have you any notion who might have killed him , Inspector ? ’ said the Bishop , clearly feeling that , if matters were getting down to fundamentals , it was time he played a part . |
| 15 | ‘ The proposition need not be questioned that where an Act purports , invalidly , to require a payment to be made , leaving the liability to be enforced by means of an action in which the invalidity of the statute is an available defence , a person who might have relied upon that defence but has paid without raising it should not be held , just because he was obeying the de facto command of a legislature , to have made the payment involuntarily . |
| 16 | But somehow Folly could only think of one person who might have sent her so tantalising a message . |
| 17 | The only person who might have respected her independence was her father , and he was the one being in whose presence she lost it . |
| 18 | The growth of bureaucracy led to the proliferation of officials with functions as police , tax collectors and customs officers who might have had their offices in such places . |
| 19 | Can you suggest any visitor who might have arrived , late in the evening , and been admitted like that ? ’ |
| 20 | Police appealed to shopkeepers in area who might have sold items to two men with Liverpool accents in week before and after April 27 when couple disappeared . |
| 21 | In June of 1684 Sir John Lowther of Stockbridge wrote to Sir Daniel asking him to make enquiry if there were any men still living in the area who might have worked the copper mines at Caldbeck Keswick or elsewhere in Cumberland . |
| 22 | Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I can think of one or two people who might have wanted to harm her , as you suggest . |
| 24 | Meanwhile many intelligent deaf people who might have gone into education , but now finding these opportunities non-existent because of the Education Act of 1893 which had implemented the Royal Commission for the Education of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb 's recommendations , were now turning to missioner positions in deaf societies and institutes for a living . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , ’ Sven Hjerson went on , ‘ it is in fact , I am thinking , that all those people who might have given that not very well balanced car the one push needed have also possible reasons for wishing the death of Lord Woodleigh . |
| 26 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 27 | One of the saddest aspects of this issue is the heavy strains and burdens placed on elderly people who might have expected their last years to be more enjoyable . |
| 28 | It will mean that a very substantial number of people who might have left Hong Kong will stay . ’ |
| 29 | Certain staff who might have shown a real aptitude for broadcasting found themselves discouraged by civil service rules on promotion and pay . |
| 30 | Cleveland Police are appealing for witnesses who might have seen the man as he left the premises at about 8.50pm on Thursday night . |