Example sentences of "[noun prp] might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time Scott might have had twenty-five or thirty houses going up at once . |
| 2 | For all I know , Léon Cohn-Casson might have had substantial reasons for believing in his invulnerability . |
| 3 | England might have seen ghostly , ghastly visions of Bruce Reid 's capacity for mass destruction . |
| 4 | Had the besweatered Pakistanis held their catches there is no knowing to what depths of despair England might have sunk that evening . |
| 5 | This gives a good idea of the rates of deposition and seems effectively to dispose of the idea that Loch Ness might have acquired 1000 m of sediment since the last ice age . |
| 6 | Maurice might have stored some papers there . ’ |
| 7 | AFTER lunching with Tory candidate Simon Fowler attacking Frank Cook 's 881 Labour majority in Stockton North last Tuesday 's Diary suggested that the sandwiches at the Centenary in Norton might have seen better days . |
| 8 | Stevenson might have felt one of his own remarks appropriate : ‘ The cruellest lies are often told in silence . ’ |
| 9 | Mussolini might have entertained another fancy , Churchill might have become too drunk to cope , and so on . |
| 10 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 11 | Trueman might have done that if he 'd had his way , but Meredith-Lee was n't such an idiot . ’ |
| 12 | Atherton might have gone first ball , lbw , but somehow survived , only to be hit on the helmet as he became airborne against Waqar . |
| 13 | On Nov. 8 US officials announced that an Israeli request to buy six US-built supercomputers had been stalled because of suspicions that Israel might have transferred sensitive nuclear technology to South Africa . |
| 14 | He thought that Craig might have lost some votes because people had not forgiven his voluntary coalition heresy but recognized that , had Craig emulated Paisley and created a reputation as an active constituency MP , he would have retained the seat . |
| 15 | But for Clark 's six wins , BRM might have had another world title . |
| 16 | Baldwin might have precipitated this had he resigned immediately . |
| 17 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 18 | April might have forbidden Wee Charlie to have any more lemonade , but she 'd said nothing about sweets . |
| 19 | Czechoslovakia 's sandstone pinnacles offer strenuous off-width climbing with the sort of protection Edward Whymper might have considered old-fashioned . |
| 20 | And Leicester might have snatched all three points at the end as substitute Ian Ormondroyd set up Bobby Davison but the player blasted the ball over the bar . |
| 21 | It crossed Rain 's mind that Eliot might have planned all along that Harbury should help but that Shildon had proposed her instead . |
| 22 | Yet Dr Evans might have taken some comfort from the wares offered to the more sophisticated sectors of the international market comprising elements from the former governing classes , leaders of financial and industrial corporations and not least the most successful popular entertainers . |