Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that many Breton lords relied heavily upon the profits of wreck to boost their incomes , and to abolish it might have caused yet another rebellion in an area where Angevin control was still fairly fragile . |
| 2 | Detectives say the young woman was left badly shaken after the assault and have warned that the incident might have become more serious if it had gone on any longer . |
| 3 | In the hands of a Christopher Isherwood some of these characters might have become as memorable as Sally Bowles in Goodbye To Berlin . |
| 4 | Without such a mission , the second wave of English might have become as Irish as the Normans before them . |
| 5 | Mussolini might have entertained another fancy , Churchill might have become too drunk to cope , and so on . |
| 6 | It might have sounded as flippant as the question was importunate . |
| 7 | The following day I might have felt more disenchanted than ever , but news of the posting blotted out all other feelings . |
| 8 | So here are a few of mine , mixed in with answers to those questions you might have felt too silly to ask . |
| 9 | Dhuoda addressed her " beautiful boy " where others might have seen just another hairy Frank . |
| 10 | A touch more organization might have made even more of this rich material . |
| 11 | The silly boy might have made potentially disastrous mistakes , but he had preserved the basis of his claim . |
| 12 | Peter Alliss might have given up competitive golf in the early 1970s but he still a formidable force out on the course . |
| 13 | A director other than Browne might have given more theatrical conviction to the Furies , as other more recent productions have done , and a more enthusiastic public response might then have persuaded Eliot to continue with his exploration of symbolist drama . |
| 14 | The trouble is , we now know that they are being re-issued … and we have cause to think that they might have undergone quite extensive modifications . |
| 15 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 16 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 17 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 18 | I think that might have gone actually this morning . |
| 19 | Mr Stych stopped in his tracks at the mention of such a sum of money , as Hank had hoped he would , and looked at the boy as if he might have gone dangerously mad . |
| 20 | Folly realised belatedly that she might have stirred up some trouble for her informant . |
| 21 | Widgery 's radical politics made limited headway within his medical school , where even the sprinkling of Labour Party careerists within David Robins 's University College might have appeared perilously left-wing . |
| 22 | I daresay he might have appeared more cheerful if his responsibilities had not been so heavy . |
| 23 | If we had included more papers in the sample the coverage might have appeared more dense , but nevertheless it is clear that it is a minority of unusual cases which get most press exposure . |
| 24 | A stale breath came from him , sour , disordered , which was not only because he might have drunk too much . |
| 25 | It might have invested too little in building its capital stock , thus perhaps enfeebling itself in future competition with foreign rivals . |
| 26 | high-profile job and the leadership of a professional association , which might have proven too much for a lesser , or older , man . |
| 27 | I might have provoked even worse charges . |
| 28 | If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail . |
| 29 | ‘ You might have a point there , people might have read too much into it . |
| 30 | However , the galaxies would also have had some small sideways velocities , and this might have made it possible for there to have been an earlier contracting phase of the universe , in which the galaxies might have come very close together but somehow managed to avoid hitting each other . |