Example sentences of "[noun pl] might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , apart from torturing their pupils daily , they had taught them well enough ; brighter subjects might have produced better results . |
| 2 | Some referees might have interpreted that as a sending off offence . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I ca n't bring myself to tell her that if she 'd stayed dead her views might have carried more weight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So whilst self-understanding is the vital ingredient of the counselling process , and whereas individuals might have developed significant insights into their own social performance , what individuals decide to do with these newly discovered insights is also of vital importance . |
| 11 | Responses to a questionnaire sent to NHS authorities in March 1988 had shown that only 8 per cent of employers requires nurses and health visitors to undertake re-entry programmes before employment , even though individuals might have had substantial breaks in service . |
| 12 | I suppose it is out of the question that one of our own police stations might have received such a notification , and failed to pass it on ? ’ |
| 13 | Certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got yesterday but not last night . |
| 14 | It is not true that certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got the solar conditions but not last night . |
| 15 | At times it has looked as though the difficulties might have proved insurmountable , the strain too much . |
| 16 | Saroj Lal , director of Lothian Racial Equality Council , said , however , that Mr McNeill 's comments might have caused greater harm than could be offset by an apology . |
| 17 | Samways might have equalised three minutes later but after creating an opening for himself , he blazed over the bar . |
| 18 | Situations where subdivisions might have had some utility are served by the coordination of index terms at the search stage ( see 17.2 ) . |
| 19 | That the South American mammals might have gone extinct in the early Pleistocene as a consequence of competition from the North American invaders has already been noted , though we should take due account of the caveats of Marshall ( 1981 ) . |
| 20 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |
| 21 | Now my Lord I 'm I make the application with no with no joy at all but the for a day this matter has proceeded on the basis that yes these two men might have known each other , but that 's as far as it goes . |
| 22 | The three men might have thought those things but not have said them aloud . |
| 23 | As things are , President de Klerk 's hasty initiatives might have solved some of our problems , but they have certainly created others — problems which may not have abated but could well have intensified come 1995 . |
| 24 | He had respected her lack of interest in what others might have called sexual morality , had respected the fact that she had slept with him and neither offered nor expected anything in return . |
| 25 | Others might have shown some sadness , regret or even heartbreak . |
| 26 | Places in those schools are by no means exclusively reserved for the offspring of the devout , but the churches might have reconsidered that policy if the Government had , in effect , continued to place a block on their expansion plans . |