Example sentences of "might [adv] [vb infin] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might only have been the light reflected from his costume , yet once again he seemed embarrassed by her presence . |
| 2 | I am sure I would have gone to the Crusades and done my bit , although that might just have been the racist in me or my natural desire to loot . |
| 3 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 4 | ’ I felt quite glad that our maid did n't write too , otherwise she might also have been the subject of inquiry . ’ |
| 5 | It might simply have been the fear of publicity . |
| 6 | Loxton agreed that might well have been the case . |
| 7 | Matters would have been made that much simpler had the guild clerk also been the parish clerk and it might well have been the case in some instances . |
| 8 | That might well have been the case during the 1970s and most of the 1980s , when the IBM name could easily outweigh other factors in a customer 's mind . |
| 9 | Conservative recovery after war and coalition does not demonstrate recovery because of war and coalition , and indeed the opposite might well have been the case . |
| 10 | Although evidence that Sheffield did any work appears lacking , his might well have been the activity reported by Dickson . |
| 11 | Many more Brothers had returned than might otherwise have been the case , had the Wolverine Squad not commandeered that Emperor Titan … |
| 12 | Soon , though , he had to leave the field with a recurrence of his leg injury , and Waqar ( 0 for 99 off 22 overs ) returned perhaps a little earlier than might otherwise have been the case . |
| 13 | There are various other ways in which both magistrates and judges may contribute , either directly or indirectly , to the prison numbers crisis — for example , by imposing a fine without taking sufficient account of a defendant 's ability to pay , with the result that imprisonment is imposed for default ( see Moxon , 1993 ) ; or by imposing a suspended sentence in place of a fine or probation with the result that , in the event of a further offence , imprisonment is more likely to be imposed than might otherwise have been the case . |
| 14 | The fast response time enabled negotiations to be concluded more quickly than might otherwise have been the case . |
| 15 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |