Example sentences of "[Wh pn] might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That meant a reservoir of skilled engineers , some of whom might have accumulated 15 or more years ' experience before being made redundant or taking early retirement .
2 ‘ We would like to hear from anyone who might have seen these four men . ’
3 ‘ Does anyone know who might have done this to her ? ’
4 There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement .
5 ‘ Was there anyone who might have felt jealous or resentful of this appointment ? ’
6 But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised .
7 François Daulte 's catalogue of the oil paintings of Frédéric Bazille , the most recent volume in the distinguished series of monographs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French masters published by the Bibliothèque des Arts , deals with the promising talent of a young artist who might have become one of the great figure painters of his generation , had he not died in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 , at the age of twenty-nine .
8 It always looked better from a distance , and by the 1960s it was a tatty , faded and unkempt relic of another age — impractical as an exhibition centre compared to functional establishments like Wembley or Earl 's Court , unappealing to any hippy entrepreneur or maverick Recreations Department dreamer who might have visualised some cultural cathedral or fun palace .
9 " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics .
10 Contemplating the others who might have shared this infinity of delight with him was like probing an open wound .
11 ‘ Can you think of anyone who might have paid large sums of money into your dad 's Swiss bank account in the last few months ? ’
12 None who might have carried that wish to the length of killing her .
13 The building of the latter included the famous Talerddig cutting which , at the time , was the deepest cutting in the world and earned Davies recognition from his fellow civil engineers , who might have by-passed Welsh happenings in their field but for that .
14 Erm , even if you inherit some spreadsheets from this person that 's left , that 's useful knowledge because you do n't have to spend time searching for whoever might have created this spreadsheet .
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