Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , the man referred to as " Shakespeare " might have been Bacon , or rather he might have had the attributes associated with Bacon . |
| 2 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm glad he was n't , ’ said the male , ‘ or else we might have had trouble . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Clarke , in the Chancellor 's traditional speech to the City of London , said that spending would have to be cut back drastically , or else he might have to consider tax increases in his Autumn Budget . |
| 5 | Comparative sociology is supposed to be the attempt to generate universal propositions on the basis of systematic comparisons of a variety of different societies , and so it might have been expected to stimulate thinking about the global system . |
| 6 | And later she might have sworn , even though the lighting was bad and he was already some distance away , that before turning around and stalking off into the night , the stranger had snarled like a beast . |
| 7 | Moreover , the new credits entailed a transfer from husbands to wives or , as the issue came to be known , from ‘ wallet to purse ’ , and hence one might have expected the male-dominated TUC to be opposed to them . |
| 8 | That 's how close Musselburgh came to snatching victory and well they might had Livingstone used the first-half wind to better effect , |
| 9 | You could smell the gas from the coke and ‘ Are you awake there ? ’ and then you might have a little natter with him — but only for a couple of minutes because if the sergeant saw you , you 'd be ‘ on the peg ’ . |
| 10 | What you can do is list all the people down here and then you might have a skills matrix you might also have a product knowledge matrix yeah ? |
| 11 | Not yet no , just get your out there and and then you might have a bit of lee-way might not we then ? |
| 12 | It ran gently down the slope , and there it might have stopped but for Donald . |
| 13 | We might bc excused for considering that as far as the 18th century was concerned , mining in the Coniston Fells had come to a standstill , and indeed it might have , but negotiations were still being carried out . |
| 14 | That 's right , but Locke was turning it on , on occasion and and just could n't strike at all , except for the one wicket , if he bowled quicker and quicker he might have been in trouble . |
| 15 | Allen , for instance was rummaging about in the bush where the Friar had hidden his sack ; and yet he might have chosen to sit still and let the sack take care of itself . |
| 16 | Again her mathematics O level was already a re-sit and again it might have been beyond her at that stage . |
| 17 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 18 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 19 | She might not have done it , done it but like she might have |
| 20 | No , but like she might have a minute while she 's having her din , the they 're really busy you know in there ! |
| 21 | One must be conscious of the pressures under which local authority social workers operate , particularly in boroughs such as that with which this case is concerned , but nonetheless one might have hoped that the letter would have received at least some acknowledgement . |
| 22 | But also it might have a greater effect on leukaemic cells , which divide more frequently , probably use more folic acid , and are thus more vulnerable to a competitive antagonist . |
| 23 | But then I might have a passenger whose company I am enjoying and do not want the intrusion . |