Example sentences of "thing [conj] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 2 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
| 3 | By comparison , the folk idiom and long melodic phrases of Dvorak 's American String Quartet seem gentle and homely , yet they too conveyed their own form of passionate yearning for homeland rather than , as in the Janacek , for things that might have been . |
| 4 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 5 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 6 | He did n't want to get on worse terms with his mother , from whom he hoped to get a loan for his holiday in Greece , nor did he want the kind of thing that might have happened , his mother phoning hospitals or getting the police because they could have had an accident in Goblander . |
| 7 | Er a specific on only thing that might have been I think was really , erm the erm the concern that some people expect erm are for rural areas , whether there was going t there were going to be con whether things were going to be spread thinner on the ground in rural areas , particularly sort of transport costs , and of course erm there 's one , but nevertheless , the concern that that would be underlying that and the erm the erm the the rural community |