Example sentences of "might [adv] have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 2 | It might only have been the light reflected from his costume , yet once again he seemed embarrassed by her presence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were in another disused , rubble-filled space which might once have been a yard or garden . |
| 5 | The men in berets at the house at Hackballs Cross , the possibility he might once have been a gunman in his wild and woolly youth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The fragmentary remains from Eccles have been interpreted as the figures of two gladiators , although , in light of the subjects of other figural designs in Britain ( see below ) , this might also have been a hunting scene ( or could have been of figures other than gladiators ; see the drawing of Cupids as gladiators : pI . |
| 8 | ’ I felt quite glad that our maid did n't write too , otherwise she might also have been the subject of inquiry . ’ |
| 9 | It might simply have been the fear of publicity . |
| 10 | The picture was of such clarity that it might even have been a photograph . |
| 11 | I was expectant of something being done for me , it might even have been a creation of the DHSS . |
| 12 | The copyholder , often equated with the poor peasant farmer , might well have been every bit as much a rentier as the lord of the manor , especially if a gentleman or wealthy townsman , earning thereby the disapprobation of Robert Crowley : |
| 13 | So the man worth just under £2 might well have been a person of some consequence in the community . |
| 14 | We lack the information necessary to relate it with confidence to specific plate tectonic events , as is possible for the Cretaceous , but the Cambrian sea-level rise might well have been a consequence of opening of the Iapetus Ocean , with the growth of a spreading ridge ( Anderton , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 15 | Loxton agreed that might well have been the case . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although evidence that Sheffield did any work appears lacking , his might well have been the activity reported by Dickson . |
| 20 | Genteel and restful with lace cloths on the little tables , parlour palms in pots around what might almost have been a dais for a three-piece orchestra , and table service by waitresses in neat black dresses and white lace caps and aprons , the Palm Court was invariably at its busiest with morning coffees and afternoon teas when shoppers were tempted with an array of dainty cakes and pastries and hot toasted teacakes in silver dishes complete with lids . |
| 21 | With his open-necked shirt , his air of dejected exhaustion and the newspaper spread open on his knee , he might almost have been a kidnap victim waiting to have his existence confirmed by means of a Polaroid photograph . |
| 22 | The whole thing sometimes appears such an enigma that there might almost have been a conspiracy of silence . |
| 23 | One possibility might then have been a link-up with the Sumed pipeline across Egypt from the other side of the Red Sea to Alexandria , but the evidence for this is confined to a report in MEW on 25 March 1985 and the Aqaba project was never implemented anyway . |
| 24 | Many more Brothers had returned than might otherwise have been the case , had the Wolverine Squad not commandeered that Emperor Titan … |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The fast response time enabled negotiations to be concluded more quickly than might otherwise have been the case . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |