Example sentences of "[adj] might have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . ’ |
| 2 | That experience , that some might have taken as a manifestation of great love , I took as a warning in much the same way as a sentinel on the walls of Roman must have shouted : ‘ Take cover , here comes Attila ! ’ |
| 3 | This might have led to the charges being dropped , or alternatively might have considerably strengthened the case for the prosecution . |
| 4 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 5 | This might have stemmed from inadequate foundations , but what evidence there is suggests otherwise . |
| 6 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
| 7 | This might have resulted from their experience of two courses that had been run successfully during those hours . |
| 8 | the French might have advanced into the country south of Charleroi , but the Duke , as ever , brooded over the left-hand side of the map which showed the great sweep of flat country between Mons and Tournai. that was where he feared a French advance that would cut the British off from the North Sea . |
| 9 | It is accordingly unnecessary to indicate the actual extent of disclosures made at the appeal hearing or the consequences that that might have had upon a differently based immunity claim . |
| 10 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |
| 11 | A Martian arriving in Britain in late 1992 might have gathered from window-stickers along the high streets that mortgages were cheap and plentiful . |
| 12 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 13 | At one time 7:84 might have baulked at attempting the classics . |
| 14 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 . |
| 15 | I can not venture to say whether the shake-up which we thought World War two might have given to Germany has done it . |