Example sentences of "might [verb] [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 2 | ( 89 ) Not only a pin , even a dead mosquito , might have been heard drop . |
| 3 | They had taken the very unusual step of advertising in the local newspaper for anyone to come forward who knew of any ritual practices that might have been taking place in South Ronaldsay . |
| 4 | But D.W. Winnicott may be helpful in this context in suggesting what sort of process might have been taking place . |
| 5 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 6 | He wrote to his friend R.S. Dods in Australia , ‘ … it looks so reasonable , so kindly , so perfectly beautiful , that you feel that people might have been making love , and living and dying there and dear little children running about for — the last - I was going to say 1,000 years — anyway , 600 . |
| 7 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 8 | They might have been playing chess . |