Example sentences of "might [adv] [verb] [be] different " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result might perhaps have been different if the money was in a collecting box . |
| 2 | The situation might or might not have been different had other ports come out resolutely in favour of the London men . |
| 3 | The art of counterfactual analysis consists in formulating probable hypothetical claims which will help us to disentangle the roles played by disparate variables , and this requires a systematic view of the kinds of factors which might plausibly have been different . |
| 4 | Had it been allowed to thrive , the whole sad subsequent history of Ireland might well have been different but , alas , it was not . |
| 5 | recognised that the situation might well have been different if , instead of the defendants simply threatening to ‘ black ’ the broadcast they had gone to the B.B.C. and said ‘ We wish it to be established as part of our conditions of employment that we are not required to work on broadcasts to South Africa . ’ |
| 6 | A further problem with the interpretation of some previous studies of mucosal metabolism has been concern that the procedure used for isolating a pure epithelial cell population from resected bowel specimens may itself have introduced artefacts , and that these artefactual changes might well have been different in the inflamed colitic tissue from those in the histologically normal colon . |