Example sentences of "might [adv] [vb infin] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 2 | Intelligence Agency , if he had been twiddling his thumbs for a week , he might just have been a little determined himself . |
| 3 | The men in berets at the house at Hackballs Cross , the possibility he might once have been a gunman in his wild and woolly youth . |
| 4 | They were in another disused , rubble-filled space which might once have been a yard or garden . |
| 5 | The fragmentary remains from Eccles have been interpreted as the figures of two gladiators , although , in light of the subjects of other figural designs in Britain ( see below ) , this might also have been a hunting scene ( or could have been of figures other than gladiators ; see the drawing of Cupids as gladiators : pI . |
| 6 | I was expectant of something being done for me , it might even have been a creation of the DHSS . |
| 7 | The picture was of such clarity that it might even have been a photograph . |
| 8 | I tried to see the people , but no picture would come , although among the shadowy figures might well have been a Peter de Fernborough , later Farmborough , who about that time made his appearance somewhere in the village . |
| 9 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 10 | He had no idea she already had suspicions which might well have been a contributory factor to her miscarriage . |
| 11 | Then , with the Czech serving for what might well have been a decisive two set lead . |
| 12 | We lack the information necessary to relate it with confidence to specific plate tectonic events , as is possible for the Cretaceous , but the Cambrian sea-level rise might well have been a consequence of opening of the Iapetus Ocean , with the growth of a spreading ridge ( Anderton , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | So the man worth just under £2 might well have been a person of some consequence in the community . |
| 14 | But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring . |
| 15 | The whole thing sometimes appears such an enigma that there might almost have been a conspiracy of silence . |
| 16 | Genteel and restful with lace cloths on the little tables , parlour palms in pots around what might almost have been a dais for a three-piece orchestra , and table service by waitresses in neat black dresses and white lace caps and aprons , the Palm Court was invariably at its busiest with morning coffees and afternoon teas when shoppers were tempted with an array of dainty cakes and pastries and hot toasted teacakes in silver dishes complete with lids . |
| 17 | With his open-necked shirt , his air of dejected exhaustion and the newspaper spread open on his knee , he might almost have been a kidnap victim waiting to have his existence confirmed by means of a Polaroid photograph . |
| 18 | One possibility might then have been a link-up with the Sumed pipeline across Egypt from the other side of the Red Sea to Alexandria , but the evidence for this is confined to a report in MEW on 25 March 1985 and the Aqaba project was never implemented anyway . |
| 19 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 20 | The Maggot , faced with these scathing judgments , countered by asserting that Ellen 's education had ruined what might otherwise have been a useful bimbo , and loudly proclaimed that her extreme aversion to himself was positive psychological proof that she was secretly enamoured of him . |
| 21 | His thick-set holler lifts what might otherwise have been a cool but minor diversion into a work of real significance . |
| 22 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 23 | Pleading poverty , he sought charity from local shopkeepers , and a butcher gave him an enormous turkey , which might actually have been a small emu . |