Example sentences of "might [adv] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy .
2 But if they were short , they would keep you on until they could get another man from a different station , so that you might only have two hours off .
3 That if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour .
4 A sceptic at the RHA might thus have good reason to believe that aside from development of hospital units either in teaching hospitals or in other hospitals having a subaltern relation to them through training arrangements , not much else would happen to achieve the aims of the government 's priority services strategy .
5 Looking back on it today , however , I perceive how dated it is ; but , in the 1930s it might just have excited interest , simply as illustrating one direction in which a Marxian might , in his disillusionment , turn .
6 Er I should think we might just have some products on the table and some leaflets .
7 He also referred to provisions in the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers , and to many other provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 and in the Companies Act 1985 which might conceivably have some bearing on this question .
8 A set of statutory guidelines , similar to those proposed in Australia , indicating factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a director has met the relevant standard might also have educative value and be useful in stimulating the development of a more detailed body of jurisprudence .
9 An improved understanding of the sources of everyday likes and dislikes would be of lasting theoretical importance in psychology , and might also have practical applications in education , product design and marketing , broadcasting , and leisure industries .
10 The apical and basolateral HCO 3 - transport systems might also have distinct characteristics and functional roles .
11 Our reports provide many examples ; for the present we note three which were both prominent and recurrent In these cases the pressures and dilemmas could not only prove intractable but might also have adverse consequences for the children .
12 Non-profit making organisations , public corporations and other government institutions might also have formally-stated objects in their constitution , whereas other organisations such as sole traderships do not have any formally-stated objects ( even though they will still have objects of some description ) .
13 Allan Border might also have few cricket days left , but he and his team can , like Waddy 's , sow much goodwill and good work in an isolated cricket outpost this month .
14 But even then it might simply have pre-empted things .
15 Posing as a libber , one of our reporters attended a secret meeting of a pro-abortion group and heard its leader , journalist Miss Dorothy Lenham , warn the ‘ sisters — that the funding given to the campaign by the prestigious international research foundation PopCon , might well have sinister implications .
16 Jenny might well have other plans , besides the vague ones she had mentioned and , in any case , a shared home at Thrush Green might be abhorrent to her .
17 The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right .
18 The series might well have different target markets and be published to different standards .
19 Dr Cuzick said it was very likely that women with only minor abnormalities but high levels of HPV 16 might well have high grade disease and need a colposcopy check .
20 Were it not so , I might well have more sympathy with an isolationist approach .
21 But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined .
22 I telephoned Downing Street in quest of the Prime Minister , but was told that he was in Rome awaiting a call from me since he was anxiously concerned about the consultants and the possibility that their action might indeed have fatal consequences for some patients .
23 We might never have this chance again …
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