Example sentences of "[conj] might have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the Director of Public Prosecutions did not press for prosecution suggests that this line of defence might have been effective , or might have resulted in the prosecution net catching even larger , embarrassed fish . |
| 2 | Thus , ME language states , being so variable , should in principle be suited to the same kind of analysis that we use in present-day social dialectology , and by using variationist methods we should be able to explore at least some of the constraints on variation that might have existed in ME . |
| 3 | With hindsight , he says , he can see the deficiencies in County 's and NatWest 's structure that might have contributed to the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 4 | Only two had both upper and lower gastrointestinal disease that might have contributed to the anaemia . |
| 5 | Reed has taken his chance to impress and win the place that might have gone to England 's Wade Dooley , who has returned home after the death of his father . |
| 6 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 7 | So first thing every morning , the shrew trots round the course , clearing away any twigs or leaves that might have fallen across it with side-swipes of its delicate fore-legs . |
| 8 | It was the free-standing sort that might have stood outside a country pub . |
| 9 | It can identify the brief passage of an animal that might have run across the ground in front of it several hours previously . |
| 10 | But more compelling were her dark expressive eyes , eyes that had widened with shock on seeing Tyler there , eyes that might have spoken to him of anger but instead had betrayed something much deeper , and far more dangerous . |
| 11 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 12 | He had a lean face and dark eyes that might have come from either his Gaelic or Jewish ancestry . |
| 13 | Just consider the additional impact that might have come from more popular scheduled kick-off times ( floodlit games all round ? ) when , again in ABC1 men ratings , New Zealand v Italy ‘ scored ’ 11 per cent , Wales v Argentine 16 per cent , France v Canada 11 per cent , New Zealand v Canada 13 per cent and Australia v New Zealand 16 per cent . |
| 14 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 15 | He took rehearsals in an ancient overcoat that might have come from Gogol 's dustbin . |
| 16 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 17 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 18 | As she said … about her own great-grandfather — she was still writing ‘ about ordinary people , and involved her readers in real life dramas that might have happened to them ’ . ’ |
| 19 | In effect , its tight-money policy is intended to bring about a shift in the domestic economy that might have happened in the early 1980s but which kept being postponed . |
| 20 | Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile . |
| 21 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 22 | Whereas in the past such external supports of the superego might have been strong enough to compensate at least in part for faulty superego development as a result of difficulties at the phallic-Oedipal stage and might have contributed to the unresolved Oedipal conflict expressing itself as a typical hysteria or obsessional neurosis , today , because such supports are in large part lacking , the outcome is not likely to be the same . |
| 23 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrats are the only party to offer the Bank the carrot of political independence , and might have hoped for more of an endorsement from Threadneedle Street . |
| 25 | Olive was born there and might have stayed in Ireland for good but for the civil unrest created by the Irish demands for home rule at the time . |
| 26 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 27 | The fact that the Australian batting rarely fired on all cylinders either during the series merely served to show-up the large gulf between the two sides , with the home team 's 4–0 triumph not flattering them unduly , although India were unlucky not to win at Sydney , and might have won at Adelaide too had their fielding not let them down . |
| 28 | She had not colluded , but might have seemed to . |
| 29 | He wrote this long four-movement piece in 1931 for the clarinettist of the day , Frederick Thurston , but might have had in mind his predecessor by 40 years , Richard Muhlfeld , so mellifluously Brahmsian is the style of writing . |
| 30 | In contrast to the High Court 's requirements , in the county court the defendant need not pay in such mesne profits as might have accrued after service . |