Example sentences of "[conj] might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Huxley said nothing about the process that might have led one branch of the primate order to develop the upright posture and the enlarged brain that are the hallmarks of the human race . |
| 2 | Clearly , if LMS could bring real benefits for teachers it would also bring benefits to pupils too : LMS could enable curriculum development that might have gone unfunded by the LEA . |
| 3 | This is a revolution that might have gone unnoticed had it not been so swift and successful . |
| 4 | cut is the branch that might have grown full strait And burned is Apollo 's laurel bough ! |
| 5 | Give me something that might have caused that situation to lose confidence . |
| 6 | She nonchalantly waved a hand in a direction that might have included any tent in the camp . |
| 7 | The possible states preceding the solution-state are taken as destinations and we look for states that might have preceded each of them … and so on back , until we are within range of where we start . |
| 8 | Leicestershire enter the table , and might have qualified last year if an adjustment had been made then to bring their figures into line with practices adopted by all the other counties . |
| 9 | A much more significant straw , however , was the direct military involvement in August 1964 of United States military forces in Vietnam , which led to Australian and New Zealand military contingents being provided and might have attracted British troops as well , if they had not already been committed in Borneo and the Aden Protectorates . |
| 10 | Gooch reached his half-century by pushing Waqar off his hip for four , and might have had four more had not the ball bobbled off the wretched Cornhill advertisement mat at straight-hit . |
| 11 | The Yorkes lived next door to the Shergolds and might have gleaned some scraps of information that he could wheedle out of Harriet . |
| 12 | Chief Justice William Rehnquist explained the Supreme Court ruling on the basis that , while the abduction might be " shocking " and might have violated international law , it was not prohibited either by the extradition treaty or by the US constitution . |