Example sentences of "might have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cut is the branch that might have grown full strait And burned is Apollo 's laurel bough ! |
| 2 | The reference to ‘ ancient and approved custom ’ might have tempted ingenious demur by the bishops , but Edward left them in no doubt where their best interest lay : ‘ know for certain that if you so act , we shall forcefully seize your baronies . ’ |
| 3 | The next part of the story is pure circumstance but the effect might have saved poor Mr Cubbage 's life . |
| 4 | We might have to deny medical treatment to sufferers from AIDS and venereal diseases , alcoholics , those injured in sport or road accidents , on the grounds that more animals would be needed to test the new drugs and further the medical procedures necessary to treat the deluge of suffering resulting from the prohibition of testing with animals . |
| 5 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 6 | Households might have to sell domestic property at a substantial discount because there is no ready second-hand market . |
| 7 | A weaker man might have become debauched ( as many kings of that time certainly did ) yet Charles clearly never allowed his vital energies to weaken his will . |
| 8 | In 1963 he fell only 31 votes short of being elected Labour leader ; he might have become prime minister . |
| 9 | But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised . |
| 10 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 11 | The moor seemed more his own when it was unpeopled , so that his childhood fantasy might have become real and he be the lord of this wild country . |
| 12 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 13 | There was a trend towards more intestinal pain in the women with hysterectomy and this might have become significant with larger numbers of subjects . |
| 14 | Then afraid he might have sounded gallant George added : ‘ Somebody 's got to make sure your military instinct for loot does n't take over . ’ |
| 15 | It might have sounded embarrassing if I had said it , ’ I smiled . |
| 16 | It might have sounded relevant if the Community had become a unitary European state , but it has not . |
| 17 | ‘ Was there anyone who might have felt jealous or resentful of this appointment ? ’ |
| 18 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 19 | But what she forgot as she jogged on the spot was that even though time might have stood still for her , it has moved on for her 31-year-old husband Slim Jim McDonald . |
| 20 | England might have seen ghostly , ghastly visions of Bruce Reid 's capacity for mass destruction . |
| 21 | Those devoted to contemplation might have lived enclosed lives , but they were open to society as advisers and counsellors . |
| 22 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 23 | The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning . |
| 24 | Secondly , and allowing for the possibility that our global score might have detected minor increases in the mucosal neutrophils in some cases of mild active duodenitis , the number of patients with heavy neutrophilic infiltration ( severe active duodenitis ) was also greater in the absence of NSAIDs . |
| 25 | While DUC members individually might have supported various other political campaigns such as CND and the anti-nuclear movement , they saw that success against uranium mining in Donegal would result only from a single-issue , locally-based and respectable campaign : ‘ The DUC was trying to get the support of the local community , was trying to get the County Council on their side and this was n't going to happen if you 're gon na have people running around burning JCBs ’ . |
| 26 | John Buddle , a mine inspector and owner 's agent with whom Davy had consulted , wrote to Davy on 1 June , 1816 : ‘ I am convinced that with the happy invention of the safe lamp large proportions of the coal mines of the empire will be rendered available , which otherwise might have remained inaccessible . ’ |
| 27 | It might not have prevented her feelings for him from developing as they had , but it would certainly not have caused a change in the atmosphere in this place , and he might have remained livable with . |
| 28 | The risible Fulham farmyard set might have worn rugged outdoor gear for years , but remember , the Boo-Yaa Tribe never wear Barbour jackets . |
| 29 | Had Pilcher lived he might have achieved proper powered , sustained , and controlled flight before the Wright brothers did so in December 1903 . |
| 30 | In her last term she won the Miss Clark Lawrence Award for service to the school : a special award , not necessarily given , ‘ for anyone who has done things that otherwise might have gone unsung ’ . |