Example sentences of "there might [verb] [been] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost .
2 Whatever understanding there might have been between the police and the BUF ended at this remark .
3 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 .
4 ‘ But there might have been in the outhouses ? ’
5 Space there might have been in the Ark — but no dogs were allowed behind the pearly gates .
6 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 .
7 A subsidy assessment of £40 suggests that this completes the account of his lands ; any there might have been in other counties can not be deduced from the available evidence .
8 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 .
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