Example sentences of "might [verb] helped " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might 've helped if Ivor had bothered to be here . ’ |
| 2 | AN INDIAN journalist yesterday accused his editor of suppressing information that might have helped to identify the recipients of millions of dollars in bribes allegedly paid to Indian officials by the Bofors armaments company , a scandal which has caused acute embarrassment to Rajiv Gandhi 's government . |
| 3 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
| 4 | The OAU stated publicly what has been the worry among many developing countries : it welcomed rapprochement between East and West but warned that funds which might have helped alleviate poverty in Africa may be diverted to central Europe . |
| 5 | In a very close race it just might have helped . |
| 6 | More body to the English String Orchestra ( an idiosyncratic name , given all the wind and other instruments which take part ) might have helped to throw the piece into clearer focus , but , in the final Presto — a rapid perpetuum mobile — they are at least all precise . |
| 7 | Mr Sinclair said the inquiry was continuing , and appealed to anyone who might have helped Mr Jowett build the machine to come forward . |
| 8 | This compares with one in four of those living in the community who were felt to have relatives who might have helped more — a difference which might well occur by chance . |
| 9 | A dash of wry cynicism might have helped another woman , but that was not Franca 's way . |
| 10 | Adult literacy campaigns ( particularly for women ) , rural employment generation , and land reform or land redistribution which all might have helped to provide a decision-making environment for a small family , as well as other benefits for their own sake , remained at the stage of inaugural addresses , or insignificant pilot projects . |
| 11 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
| 12 | At the time of this translation we were not sufficiently in touch with Burmese poets and authors or with Buddhist monks , who together might have helped us to be more truly indigenous . |
| 13 | He might have helped Hank buy a new one — he 's making enough money . ’ |
| 14 | Afterwards I wondered if I had offered to paint the name of her firm on the coffin for all to see , it might have helped her business and consequently her attitude towards my custom . |
| 15 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 16 | On the rare occasions when French and Vietminh met and when local concessions might have helped at least to improve the atmosphere — for example the release of hostages taken by Vietminh — the Vietminh for their part denied all knowledge that any had been taken while violent incidents were either attributed to the forces outwith their control , which may well have been true , or else to the anger of the people which , again , may have been true but did not improve matters . |
| 17 | However , it is arguable that representatives of subject areas not so conventionally identified with the notion of a school library ( e.g. art , science , and computer studies ) might have helped to break the stereotypical view of school libraries as the preserve of the English department and provided the team with some refreshingly different perspectives . |
| 18 | On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases . |
| 19 | Maybe if chlorophyll tablets bad been available in those days they might have helped but as it was I had tried everything . |
| 20 | Make-up might have helped , but she had n't bothered to bring any with her . |
| 21 | It might have helped if the hon. Gentleman had given people a better example in that respect . |
| 22 | Milk quotas do not work , and in some ways a bit of market forces might have helped the United Kingdom because we are efficient producers . |
| 23 | Kaifu 's government had been forced on Sept. 30 to abandon plans for a major constitutional reform which might have helped to end the LDP 's factional in-fighting . |
| 24 | Here , the failure to consult was material because if the community health council had been consulted when it should have been in May , 1992 , it might have helped to ensure that the commitment to transfer the unit to the new hospital remained until a satisfactory new home for the unit could be found . |
| 25 | Proposals on the minimum wage and protection of workers ' rights ( through endorsement of the EC 's Social Chapter for example ) if implemented might have helped prevent exploitation of the " peripheral " workforce although the market advantage of the knowledge workers would continue . |
| 26 | ‘ They might have helped out with the work , but Robert has done much more — lent you his nurse for that pyometra and lent Ian to do my farm work — and he 's worked doubly hard himself . |
| 27 | One sestertius might have helped the visitor pay his way during the time of Emperor Antonius Pius . |
| 28 | One sestertius might have helped the visitor pay his way during the time of Emperor Antonius Pius . |
| 29 | Now police believe a National register of DNA samples might have helped catch the man , but they admit there are problems . |
| 30 | Now police believe a National register of DNA samples might have helped catch the man , but they admit there are problems . |