Example sentences of "might [verb] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 2 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 3 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 4 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 5 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 6 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 7 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 8 | Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% . |
| 9 | Had Ken not been beset by peculiarly worrying tours as England manager/coach , that small family might have been spared such early grief . |