Example sentences of "[noun sg] might have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 2 | I E bare subsistence might have been three hundred , four hundred . |
| 3 | ‘ It is our view that even when libraries do take training seriously , they all too often waste resources by selecting the wrong priorities in training e.g. by sending professional staff to expensive external courses , when an internal training programme might have been cheaper and more useful . ’ |
| 4 | The movie might have been truer to the actor if Hoffman had rejected retaliation and been left with physical ruin and intact theorems . ’ |
| 5 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 6 | The silence was so total that the auditorium might have been empty . |
| 7 | The commentators talked about a ‘ surprise ’ win , and there were hints that if Ade had not had the misfortune that he did , the result might have been different . |
| 8 | The result might have been different if there had been a notice attached to the goods making it clear that these goods had nothing to do with the defendant 's business as a dealer in second-hand goods but had come from his home and that the sale of the goods was to be a private transaction . |
| 9 | For example , where 18 months ago the annual income on a level annuity might have been 13 per cent , now a new annuity might offer 12 per cent . |
| 10 | In retrospect , the research might have been easier in a situation with fewer functional elements , as a great deal of time and effort was directed at trying to tabulate the information links between the system components and construct a comprehensive information model . |
| 11 | This exile might have been permanent had Swegen not died in February 1014. Æthelred was invited back , and wasted little time in expelling Cnut and his army from their Lincolnshire base . |
| 12 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 13 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 16 | Reports in late January suggested that the United Kingdom Defence Ministry might have been aware of the export of components used in the manufacture of the Iraqi " super-gun " [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ; 38361 ] . |
| 17 | Resistance might have been easier if he had been , not that her belief that he was had been enough to stop her succumbing to him once . |
| 18 | Abbott C.J. , with whom Bayley J. agreed on this point , said the payment might have been voluntary if the parties had stood on equal terms , and continued , at p. 735 : |
| 19 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 20 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 21 | The prognostic value of this parameter might have been higher if the follow up of our patients had been longer , since some of the patients with high upper crypt labelling indeces who did not relapse might have experienced later recurrences . |
| 22 | Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended . |
| 23 | Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended . |
| 24 | They are , we can as well say , certain conceivable changes in the universe , ways in which the universe might have been different . |
| 25 | I think it was the old Gladding Masters match , he did n't win it ( Pete Palmer did ) , but he had plenty of big names behind him ( I think the editor might have been one of them ) and showed why he must have been greatly feared in his prime . |
| 26 | Huy found himself wishing that he were able to read some comment on the policeman 's face — anger or disapproval might have been easier . |
| 27 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 28 | Newley might have been useful here , but at the last moment he had decided not to come . |
| 29 | In Jobling , the plaintiff might have been able to claim social security benefits to partially compensate for his losses . |
| 30 | He was the justification for the war , particularly in the eyes of neighbouring princes whose intervention might have been decisive but who were understandably not that involved in the quarrel over the succession to Angoulême . |