Example sentences of "might have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons why it might have been felt necessary in the field-worker 's presence to define the neighbourhood role as primarily crime control is because , like community relations , the Neighbourhood Unit is aware that the section police see them as having an easy duty . |
| 2 | Ideally , the teams studied might have been serving similar populations with similar levels of staffing and other resources , and the samples might have been carefully standardized . |
| 3 | Geometric abstraction has been a mainstay in the art of Valerie Jaudon for many years : she has worked more patterned variations on the relationship between the curved and the straight line than might have been thought possible . |
| 4 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 5 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 6 | Even the lawns had been restored , like emerald carpets unrolled before his eyes ; sunblasted trees which might have been thought dead had miraculously clothed themselves with leaves . |
| 7 | Though they might have been thought unwise to travel to Berlin in the worsening international crisis , they had done nothing illegal and there was no authority to stop them . |
| 8 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 9 | Had the words been capable of bearing this defamatory meaning , Schild might have been awarded enormous damages . |
| 10 | I thought she might have been taken ill or had a fall or something . ’ |
| 11 | Zhu was reportedly dismissed because of his links with liberal policies , and might have been held responsible for the participation of union members in the pro-democracy protests of May and June . |
| 12 | He also saw two carriages that might have been carrying senior officers , and he flirted with the idea that one of the carriages might have belonged to the Emperor himself . |
| 13 | Of course , Moses might have been going senile and got a bit mixed up . |
| 14 | I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy , like Noddy . |
| 15 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |