Example sentences of "[adv] might [vb infin] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hand somewhere might have touched a secret spring , for a whole wall was turning on a hinge to reveal a hidden chamber . |
| 2 | The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable . |
| 3 | United also might have had a penalty in the second half when City skipper , Keith Curle , appeared to push striker Mark Hughes over in his box , but referee Robert Hart , waved play on . |
| 4 | unresolved oedipal problems ( which formerly might have produced a typical hysteria ) may today lead to a state of unrestrained and self-destructive acting out , and to delinquency , simulating a picture of psychosis , as the ego remains weak and the superego ineffectual in the face of uncontrolled drives . |
| 5 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 6 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 7 | A goal then might have made a big difference . |
| 8 | A moment 's pain then might have avoided a lifetime of imprisonment since . |
| 9 | It is rare to find in his writings any acknowledgement of the possibility that Britain 's dominion overseas might have had a less than immaculate conception . |