Example sentences of "[conj] might [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 2 | Invariably , afterwards , he found himself thinking about Liza Tremayne and all that was or might have been . |
| 3 | This holds regardless of whether the mechanism , behavioural , chemical or otherwise , might have evolved arbitrarily or might have been the only possible one phylogenetically . |
| 4 | Miss Williamson , for the bank , submitted that agency only was insufficient to found liability ; there must also be notice on the part of the creditor that undue influence would or might have been exercised . |
| 5 | Cobalt shook his head , which might have meant he did n't know or might have been admonishment for Oliver who was still holding the bottle of wine . |
| 6 | When fixing the duration of an order the court should consider whether any party who was , or might have been , opposed to the order was in a position to argue his case properly ( s38(10) ) . |
| 7 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 8 | The inflation figures , and even pay settlements , have been less awful than might have been expected . |
| 9 | Otherwise , the Commonwealth relationship remained more tranquil under Mrs Thatcher than might have been expected . |
| 10 | Since Bassett 's book was published , biographies of most of the main protagonists have appeared : but , with one exception , they shed much less light on the crisis than might have been imagined . |
| 11 | The Great and Good have proved more resilient than might have been expected . |
| 12 | I feared in Rome I detected a great change for the worse , but she has stood the journey well , better than might have been expected , and now , if all remains serene , we may see her build up again . ’ |
| 13 | A STUDY of baboons in Kenya shows that the old adage ‘ you are what you eat ’ is truer than might have been imagined . |
| 14 | As things turned out , my father 's ordeal proved even worse than might have been predicted . |
| 15 | The processes which keep alive a microbe , a spinach plant , and a human turned out to have more in common than might have been expected . |
| 16 | Beliefs which had become established almost as folk-law , such as the universally harmful effects of too much salt , had less support than might have been expected . |
| 17 | The share of total energy usage accounted for by nuclear power will rise from 4% to 7% , a far lower level of increase than might have been achieved but for the Three Mile Island incident . |
| 18 | Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development . |
| 19 | The remaining populace , disillusioned with their rulers and protectors , accordingly greeted the French emperor and his men with less hostility than might have been expected . |
| 20 | It was obvious to them that Danzig , up to the advent of the Nazis , had been far freer from racial strife and entrenched national rivalry than might have been expected in such a complex and explosive economic and political environment . |
| 21 | The casualty rate so far was no more than might have been expected from the hazardous nature of the operation , and although he could not , in all honesty , say he was in command of the whole ship , he at least held the strategic upper hand . |
| 22 | than might have been expected . |
| 23 | The parameters used to select patients for the trial , however , could have indicated several remedies other than Rhus toxicodendron , and the chances of any particular patient responding to the Rhus toxicodendron were little better than might have been expected by chance alone . |
| 24 | But Trafalgar caved in , and its chief executive is leaving the company earlier than might have been expected . |
| 25 | Nevertheless his reaction now was less than might have been expected , for he was an impressionable man where women were concerned . |
| 26 | We controlled the game better than might have been expected but this game is different and , however much you plan things , a goal can change everything . |
| 27 | Knowing that he was unquestionably going to die , and not knowing how or when , had been a strain , and the fact that it had been so much easier for him than might have been the case was a great relief . |
| 28 | Geometric abstraction has been a mainstay in the art of Valerie Jaudon for many years : she has worked more patterned variations on the relationship between the curved and the straight line than might have been thought possible . |
| 29 | The British came to Cannes with some pomp and ceremony and , for a disintegrating industry , made a bigger splash than might have been expected . |
| 30 | 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 ? |