Example sentences of "might have be [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The only influence really the woman might have is in the love and affection level of operating , and it 's a very unfair power battle and that is , in fact , what it turns into . |
2 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
3 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
4 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
5 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
6 | It might have been on the table , obscured by this banner . |
7 | It might have been on the Saturday . |
8 | For a start , most dealers were young and ignorant characters who before drifting into their present positions might have been on the dole , or at University , or in menial office jobs , at which time they probably did n't even know what stocks and shares were . |
9 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
10 | One time no a long time ago , which it might actually , might you might have been at the meeting , I do n't know . |
11 | The event which aggravates the offence might have been outside the defendant 's control . |
12 | In the study by Mattsson et al describing development of enterochromaffin like carcinoids in rats afer longterm hypergastrinaemia caused by partial corpectomy , the plasma gastrin concentration might have been above the minimal concentration necessary to give maximal trophic effect ( supramaximal concentration ) . |
13 | Whatever understanding there might have been between the police and the BUF ended at this remark . |
14 | Did this , he was asked yesterday , mean that the economy had not been managed as well as it might have been during the Thatcher years ? |
15 | Browse in the gift shop or enjoy refreshment in the restaurant , and you can reflect for a few moments on how different things might have been without the events of 1066 . |
16 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
17 | ‘ That 's right , ’ he said , trying to think of why Hasan 's photograph might have been inside the locket . |
18 | ‘ But there might have been in the outhouses ? ’ |
19 | He might have been in the mill . ’ |
20 | Space there might have been in the Ark — but no dogs were allowed behind the pearly gates . |
21 | They are not linked in other ways , as they might have been in the past , as in mining villages , by other common bonds of interests . |
22 | But any flowers there might have been in the garden would probably have been eaten by the resident goats , rabbits and God-knows-whatever-else were around at the time , for the kind-hearted Edwardses never turned any sick or homeless creature away . |
23 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
24 | Julia knew that he might have been in the room while she was unconscious , but his absence during her times awake began to fret her . |
25 | Was after world war one anyway I mind of that , so say it might have been in the twenties he might have done I would n't say proper |
26 | Sydney Smith had been wrong too ; it seemed that the country was not even a healthy grave ; though , judging from Edwin 's pusillanimous letter , Smith might have been in the right when he suggested that there were three sexes — men , women and clergymen ! |
27 | They might have been in the private wing , put away by their guilty and embarrassed families . |
28 | The employer was forced to admit that no replacement had been engaged , which tended to indicate that a redundancy might have been in the offing . |
29 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
30 | Men who might have been behind the assassins . |