Example sentences of "might [adv] have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book .
2 After a lousy annual meeting and a lousy result against Crystal Palace , Alex Ferguson might reasonably have hoped for a change of fortune .
3 They might even have belonged to a child .
4 If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade .
5 Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop .
6 Jonathan Aitken escaped the total destruction of his career , which might well have resulted from a conviction .
7 It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution .
8 Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict .
9 Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home .
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