Example sentences of "[pron] might [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flora , of course , was nothing like my poor little mother , nor was her situation comparable , but one can not help being affected by memories , however irrelevant they may be , and , thinking of that other middle-aged woman deserted by her young lover , made me sorrier for Flora than I might otherwise have been . |
| 2 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 3 | I do n't think he was any more upset , but I might n't have been paying attention . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I might not have been as good as other Yorkshire left-arm spinners like Hedley Verity or Wilfred Rhodes , but perhaps my name can be mentioned alongside them . |
| 5 | If I 'd known , ’ said Cadfael dubiously , ‘ that you were going to bring her back safely , and no great harm done , I might not have been so busy about worrying out how she ever went astray . ’ |
| 6 | Then she tried to soften the reprimand by adding : ‘ I might not have been here . ’ |
| 7 | You 've ruined me , Piers Morrison , she thought angrily , staring at her reflection in the mirror as the prospect of a dreary Saturday evening faced her ; I might not have been terribly nice before I met you , but at least I was n't filled with this pain and dissatisfaction . |
| 8 | Come on , Ryan , gullible I might once have been . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Although evidence that Sheffield did any work appears lacking , his might well have been the activity reported by Dickson . |
| 11 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 12 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 13 | The more powerful , well-established organizations were often able to put forward their own projects — many of which might simply have been cancelled because of capital cut-backs after the International Monetary Fund imposed constraints in 1976 . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) It is hereby declared that a person shall not be entitled to rely on the defence provided by subsection ( 1 ) above by reason of his reliance on information supplied by another , unless he shows that it was reasonable in all the circumstances for him to have relied on the information , having regard in particular ( a ) to the steps which he took , and those which might reasonably have been taken , for the purpose of verifying the information ; and ( b ) to whether he had any reason to disbelieve the information . |
| 15 | Such ritual brings no hope , and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful . |
| 16 | A domestic market that becomes part of an international market is going to be subjected to the effects of changes which might otherwise have been more slow in coming — or would n't have immediately affected it . |
| 17 | It not only secured jobs which might otherwise have been lost but also created 80 more . |
| 18 | Depreciation and amortisation is only one of many factors reflected in the annual valuation , and the amount which might otherwise have been charged can not be separately identified or quantified . ’ |
| 19 | For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family . |
| 20 | At the same time there was an emphasis upon paternalism to enhance workers ' motivation and promote effective work performance which might otherwise have been impaired by this control strategy . |
| 21 | If the term disorganized capitalism is useful in describing a new set of relations , then some of these relations have changed at a level which might traditionally have been assigned to superstructure — at the levels of ideology or civil society , although these terms will require subsequent careful discussion . |
| 22 | The reasons for this hunt will become clearer in the next chapters ; for now the point is that even flies , which might traditionally have been regarded as stupid , with tiny brains of no more than 20,000 neurons , turned out to be able , under the appropriate circumstances , to learn and remember . |
| 23 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 24 | Still , it gave Mary five minutes of fame overtime which might not have been allocated otherwise . |
| 25 | Audio warnings , such as ‘ distance too close ’ and ‘ excess speed ’ , tell of potentially hazardous situations which might not have been noticed . |
| 26 | Shortly thereafter , the Party took the unusual step of assembling the Armed Forces heads and demanding their collective endorsement of Beria 's arrest — a step which might not have been judged necessary by a leadership firmly in the saddle and truly confident of its prerogatives . |
| 27 | Instead of saying " shirts made in 3 different sleeve lengths " which might not have been noticed by readers , the advertisement carried the headline : " Is your husband in another man 's arms ? " — a proposition hard to ignore . |
| 28 | He had no idea she already had suspicions which might well have been a contributory factor to her miscarriage . |
| 29 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 30 | He was making for a taxi , which might well have been waiting for him . |