Example sentences of "[noun] might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next part of the story is pure circumstance but the effect might have saved poor Mr Cubbage 's life . |
| 2 | A senior London police officer was attempting to attract black recruits into the police force , whilst denying that racism in the force might have deterred black people from joining in the past : ‘ Racism in the force is not the main reason for black people preferring not to apply . |
| 3 | The compliment might have delighted any other woman , but the whispered words made Beth 's heart sink . |
| 4 | In fact , apart from torturing their pupils daily , they had taught them well enough ; brighter subjects might have produced better results . |
| 5 | At this time Scott might have had twenty-five or thirty houses going up at once . |
| 6 | Presenting less raw data might have allowed more scope to look at certain issues in more depth . |
| 7 | For all I know , Léon Cohn-Casson might have had substantial reasons for believing in his invulnerability . |
| 8 | The entire episode might have gone unnoticed had there not been a routine monitoring of the base communications tapes last week . |
| 9 | Some referees might have interpreted that as a sending off offence . |
| 10 | The Marx brothers might have shown more tolerance than Karl Marx for Stalin 's antics : throwing food at guests unwise enough to nod off at table during his interminable late-night dinner parties , or racing round in meetings ‘ cursing like a cab driver ’ . |
| 11 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
| 12 | Archives department might have salvaged some records from the theatre . |
| 13 | Creggan might have stayed longer but that he became aware of a man silhouetted on the skyline . |
| 14 | Until Thursday Labour might have shared that joke . |
| 15 | Though doing so shortly after the Gulf war and in a recession might have seemed risky , Airtours had its reasons . |
| 16 | Seebohm reorganisation might have created one door for people to turn to but often that door was closed . |
| 17 | Secondly , there was also the chance that the commotion of the brief struggle might have attracted other human enemies , who might even then be closing in on him . |
| 18 | KPMG was asked to resign as auditor in November last year because of the board 's ‘ loss of confidence' , but it refused to accept the request because shareholders might have inferred that it acknowledged criticism of its audit work . |
| 19 | For all the French officers knew the thick rye might have concealed two whole battalions of Greenjackets . |
| 20 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 21 | I ca n't bring myself to tell her that if she 'd stayed dead her views might have carried more weight . |
| 22 | He saw at once how such an opportunity might have tempted one of the guards . |
| 23 | Project 2000 students are involved in preparation and presentation of seminars , as are polytechnic and university undergraduates , whereas the vast majority of nurses whose route to registration was via a traditional preregistration course might have had little or no experience of teaching . |
| 24 | Cos really , I mean an E C G might have guaranteed some . |
| 25 | To the first readers of Middlemarch , however , an elaboration of her plans might have seemed redundant , for if her ambitions were unusual in her own time , they were routine responsibilities by the 1870s . |
| 26 | Baker-style rescheduling and new money might have cut short-term financing needs , but could make no difference in the medium term . |
| 27 | England might have seen ghostly , ghastly visions of Bruce Reid 's capacity for mass destruction . |
| 28 | Had the besweatered Pakistanis held their catches there is no knowing to what depths of despair England might have sunk that evening . |
| 29 | The moor seemed more his own when it was unpeopled , so that his childhood fantasy might have become real and he be the lord of this wild country . |
| 30 | They would have provided the basis for greater parliamentary co-operation between labour representatives and liberal politicians , and a framework in which the appeal to nationalism and the efforts of Church , school and middle-class reformers might have had more effect in moderating working-class attitudes . |