Example sentences of "[adj] might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a trend towards more intestinal pain in the women with hysterectomy and this might have become significant with larger numbers of subjects . |
| 2 | For those who regard ethnic origin as an important part of the explanation , this might have seemed odd , for Lenin was , despite recent disputes , solidly Russian , whereas much of the intellectual leadership of the rest of European Social Democracy was drawn from minorities — Rosa Luxemburg was Polish and Jewish , Piatakov was Ukrainian , Bauer and Karl Kautsky were Austrian and Jewish etc . |
| 3 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 4 | For anyone else this might have seemed ample funds for an expedition , but for Gould , the cautious man of commerce , even this nest-egg had to be used sparingly . |
| 5 | While this might have proved acceptable for itinerant traders , to most local people it would have been unattractive and most would have preferred to be home by nightfall or soon after . |
| 6 | By 1939 it was widely believed that no more wooden aeroplanes would be built and this might have come true if the War had not created shortages of aluminium and of the machinery and skilled men for handling it . |
| 7 | This might have implied some degree of interconnection and co-ordination between the various sectors , but unfortunately this is not the situation . |
| 8 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 9 | He has been accused of indulging in fallacious argument , l of selecting data and omitting sources , and he has allegedly ignored the great accumulation of new studies in the 1970s and 1980s that might have refuted some of his arguments . |
| 10 | Had anything happened around two years before that might have caused all this ? |
| 11 | Mrs Quinton closed her eyes for a moment as if recalling her cousin relating this girl 's history , which had not included the scissors ' business with Sister Mary as being the reason for her leaving because that might have put any caring mother off from engaging such a virago . |
| 12 | That might have attracted more women and young readers — but by taking them partly from the Mirror . |
| 13 | Roxburgh 's observation that high expectation can be dangerous might have carried more weight were it not for the fact that nobody appears to have a loftier opinion of Ferguson than the 21-year-old himself . |
| 14 | The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning . |
| 15 | Are you , are you suggesting that , that either of those might have de-motivated either of those players ? |
| 16 | ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . ) |
| 17 | The 72 might have seemed boring but it put him in charge . |