Example sentences of "[Wh pn] might have [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 2 | Anybody who might have been er at the Tesco store on Saturday any time during the day who might have seen the pony or even people who walk their dogs because the field 's used quite extensively for dog walkers . |
| 3 | Police are appealing for anyone who might have seen the red London coach on the M40 before the accident to come forward . |
| 4 | Cleveland Police are appealing for witnesses who might have seen the man as he left the premises at about 8.50pm on Thursday night . |
| 5 | They want to trace anyone who might have seen the incident . |
| 6 | Police have appealed for witnesses to the raid or anyone who might have seen the men stealing the car or abandoning it . |
| 7 | Machicolations , usually regarded as a sign of nobility , had their practical value in that they permitted vertical defence against those who might have reached the dead ground near a wall , and might be setting about digging or mining under it . |
| 8 | He rammed in the pitch , keeping his balance in the tossing pirogue , as only he could , he with his funambulist 's antennae , who might have scaled the ship on a free-floating ladder if it had been a parade , a feast , a time of play and rejoicing . |
| 9 | The one chance of Allied success lay in speed of advance ; that is , for the troops to reach the German line of defence before those soldiers who might have survived the artillery bombardment had time to emerge from their dug-outs and man their guns . |
| 10 | Had the Borough Council objected to the application for 60 housing units , then Pubmaster might have appealed against their decision to a Government inspector who might have overruled the Council . |
| 11 | In June of 1684 Sir John Lowther of Stockbridge wrote to Sir Daniel asking him to make enquiry if there were any men still living in the area who might have worked the copper mines at Caldbeck Keswick or elsewhere in Cumberland . |
| 12 | If the Second World War is often regarded as the watershed of ‘ permissiveness ’ , then those with more educated tastes — who perhaps remember the precipitating crisis of the Public Order Act of 1936 and Mosley 's black shirts , or who might have read the descriptions of pre-war razor gangs in Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock — look back beyond the war before that , to the slumbering golden years of Edwardian England which is one of the most authoritative versions of the true location of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 13 | Danger men such as Gerald Kaufman and John Prescott , who might have taken the wrapping off the chocolate box , were kept hidden from sight . |
| 14 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 15 | Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted . |