Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where goodwill still has to be valued in relation to payments to outgoing partners , one of two bases is likely to be used : ( 1 ) excess profits , that is to say the amount by which an outgoing partner 's profit share exceeded ( a ) what he might have been expected to earn as an employed solicitor , and ( b ) the income he might have been expected to receive from investing his capital contributions in safe securities ; or , and much more frequently , ( 2 ) the average net profits of the partner concerned . |
| 2 | CENTRE : Gladstone with its Royal Train coat of arms of the kind it might have carried on London to Epsom Derby Day trains . |
| 3 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 4 | Er and that is , that is one of the problems within the flats , that having got , once got into the complex you might have quite a long way to go before you actually find where you 're going . |
| 5 | First , they wanted to see if he could pass himself off as Swedish , or if there was anybody working for the enemy who might have an inkling of his presence or identity . |
| 6 | But the FA 's reply confirmed that they would not allow the match to take place because they were worried about the effect it might have on the pitch . |
| 7 | The first lay in the effect it might have on teaching and learning and the second in too great a concentration of power in the hands of the government of the day and especially with one person , the Secretary of State . |
| 8 | He spoke in a flat monotone , suppressing all the emotion he might have felt . |
| 9 | Molly had gone round the party trying to pick up information , listening for hints dropped during casual conversations and there , talking to her own children and eating nougat , was the girl who might have told her almost everything . |
| 10 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 11 | After the Act she might have believed that she had reasonable grounds for making her demand and that her threat was a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
| 12 | She shines , too : one never could ignore her despite the enormous charm of her victims come to seek their revenge , first in Saks 's gloomy room then in his enchanted Gauguin -esque forest , whose colours the child herself might have smeared on the walls with sticky fists . |
| 13 | She took the man I loved , the child I might have had , and did n't even keep it . |
| 14 | Everyone will have to buy one of these machines and erm at the moment we might have to pay perhaps about a hundred pounds , but perhaps later these will become very , very cheap indeed and just will become part of the television set . |
| 15 | Now VAT men have earned an unfortunate reputation for not exactly being the sort who might have graduated from the Lucy Clayton school for charm and social deportment . |
| 16 | The cord was the sort anybody might have . |
| 17 | Had he known the truth it might have made his loss that bit more bearable . ’ |
| 18 | She thought fleetingly of the weapon he might have picked up to strike her over the head as she sat at his mercy . |
| 19 | Each day we used to do say an hour in the morning , whatever time was available between leaving school and getting back , dinner time , then in the evening you might have two , two and a half hours you left you , you finished school , and er you might finish at eight o'clock if you were lucky you 'd finish at half past seven . |
| 20 | The speaker was an ambitious young graduate , seeking accelerated promotion and not pleased at the notion he might have got into an accident-prone unit . |
| 21 | A moment later she fell down them , unable to find the rope against the wall which might have saved her . |
| 22 | People were slow to come out and if these people had made a concerted effort in the beginning it might have been different ’ . |
| 23 | In one hand he held a sack , in the other what might have been metal traps , or not that at all but some kind of implement . |
| 24 | The memory chilled the warmth she could feel gathering inside her , the warmth which might have proved treacherous if she lingered here with this yes — definitely attractive man . |
| 25 | " On the surface I might have seemed calm , " he said after recording opening rounds of 66 and 68 to open a four-shot lead over a group comprising Russell Claydon , Roger Chapman , Peter Senior and Scott Hoch . |
| 26 | On the surface I might have seemed serene . |
| 27 | Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 30 | As soon as I saw what you were heading for , that you and he were hot at it , I cursed the baby you might have . ’ |