Example sentences of "might have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 2 | I do n't know whether , whether it might 've been worthwhile just questioning a bit more about the the link because he was obviously very keen on it |
| 3 | If I 'd ever done anything — made anything of myself more than a third-rate free-lance — it might 've been different . |
| 4 | They have no ‘ implication of utterance ’ : whatever meaning potential they might have is remote from any realization , since the contexts which would provide the occasion for their use are of unlikely occurrence . |
| 5 | I mean I think you 'll find that erm that there was an amaz you know I mean that , that while the language might have been simple it was n't simplistic and , but the change in a in a way now is around . |
| 6 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 7 | But if the then Prime Minister had been governing by decree based on policies formed by her own beliefs , credit might have been easy . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
| 9 | The speculation might have been premature but Rioch has since applied for the job . |
| 10 | Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower . |
| 11 | Mum and Dad 'd come , get interviewed by the Chief Inspector : ‘ Do you think , Mr Marquis , that your daughter might have been involved in something more serious — breaking and entering , drug trafficking ? ’ |
| 12 | Limerick being warned not to drink their tapwater , as local authority officials worried that cyanide might have been involved in the spillage . |
| 13 | This business of him going missing … ’ began the Brigadier , ‘ It 's possible that he might have been involved in something big . |
| 14 | However , some reports speculated that Sikh extremists might have been involved in the murder . |
| 15 | They say they have only tenuous evidence Gary might have been involved in drugs . |
| 16 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 17 | Dead is dead , no matter who signs the warrant , though it might have been nice to think that BW had felt compassion when she typed that letter and a bit of respect , maybe , for Stoker Gerry McKeown of the Mercantile Marine . |
| 18 | Even then , all might have been well . |
| 19 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 20 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 21 | A IT was Powdery Mildew and it might have been possible to save the Begonias . |
| 22 | During your two years in Paris as Colnaghi 's representative , how much has your presence been of importance to selling as opposed to finding more sources of paintings than might have been possible from the London or New York base ? |
| 23 | Initially Verity Lambert was resistant to this change , only in retrospect agreeing this gave Susan 's character greater depth than otherwise might have been possible : |
| 24 | The memory was there , and recall at leisure might have been possible if your study techniques were good . |
| 25 | More involvement by Contact members might have been possible , with a radical reformulation of internal policies clarifying the group 's primary function . |
| 26 | Fifteen , maybe twenty years ago it might have been possible . |
| 27 | From this it might have been possible to develop a philosophy in which humankind had a responsibility towards the other species with which we share the earth . |
| 28 | ‘ It might have been possible to prevent this . ’ |
| 29 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
| 30 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |