Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] might have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Indians of a literary turn of mind might have thought of W.B. Yeats : ‘ Things fall apart ; the centre can not hold ; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . ’ |
| 2 | On the one hand , assuming the assessments to have been broadly accurate , the level of exploitation might have varied widely : it was , for instance , regarded as axiomatic that enclosed ground was worth substantially more than common , while manorial custom and estate policy could exercise a profound effect on rents . |
| 3 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 4 | The public fantasies of television might have destroyed the need for private ones . |
| 5 | If we are content to think generally , then , we can see how the key molecules of life might have arisen . |
| 6 | The seeds of life might have appeared spontaneously here or in space , or they might have been deliberately sent here by an extra-terrestrial intelligence . |
| 7 | An accordion sounded within the hotel , and I guessed that the distractions of music might have driven him outside . |
| 8 | Observing that the public interest had fixed almost entirely on the co-operatives set up to rescue failed enterprises organised as companies in the conventional form , the Agency commented first that it was questionable how far those enterprises when reorganised , satisfied co-operative principles ; and next that the recent closure of KME might have revived doubts about the effectiveness for industrial ventures of the co-operative form . |
| 9 | It seems possible that the extensive exposure to the stimuli experienced by the experimental subjects in the first stage of training might have resulted in a latent inhibition effect that would obscure any other source of transfer . |
| 10 | Without such a mission , the second wave of English might have become as Irish as the Normans before them . |
| 11 | An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point . |
| 12 | That in turn might have given wider diplomatic and political options a chance . |
| 13 | My point here is that a further rapid increase in unemployment might have weakened the unions ' power of resistance ( one can draw a comparison with the Thatcher government ) , but playing according to rules which prohibited blatant mass unemployment tied the government 's hands . |
| 14 | Those devoted to contemplation might have lived enclosed lives , but they were open to society as advisers and counsellors . |
| 15 | He had thought that perhaps Osbern or some of his friends still on horseback might have got through , provided the fighting was over . |
| 16 | Some of our patients with suffocation or hypoxaemia induced by epilepsy might have died without a definite diagnosis and appropriate management . |