Example sentences of "might [adv] have [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happened rather often , and if the inhabitants of Oswaldston had not mostly been shut up in front of their televisions at this time of day , it might already have given rise to some talk . |
| 2 | If you looked at it long enough , it might just have appeared disc-shaped . |
| 3 | It might just have eluded leg stump , but the lbw decision was given . |
| 4 | Clovis and the Franks might easily have become arian . |
| 5 | Therefore , one can not claim that there was any potential for real dependence , although Leapor might easily have exchanged flattery for profit in the circumstances . |
| 6 | Sister Becky might once have shown promise , but she turned out too left-wing . |
| 7 | If he had not tried to cancel it ( and so murdered Macduff 's family ) , Macduff might not have killed him ; if he had not killed Duncan , he might conceivably have become king some other way . |
| 8 | If Jack had just returned in pristine health from a month at a health farm he might still have had trouble in coping with two of his partners . |
| 9 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 10 | It might also have included woodland in which , again , the peasants could not graze their animals , but which the manorial lord would have used exclusively for his own purposes , including hunting . |
| 11 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 12 | Might even have felt displeasure at the prospect . |
| 13 | Let it not be forgotten that in the years leading to the war the Tories were so scared of Russia that they missed the chance to establish a partnership which might well have prevented war . |
| 14 | This prospect was seen as likely to destabilize the Alliance , because Arab members might well have had difficulty in explaining to their constituencies what amounted to an alliance with Israel against a fellow Arab state , Iraq . |
| 15 | They might well have had experience at second hand of Russian trade goods , and thus have resolved to pay tribute to obtain these benefits . |
| 16 | ‘ There are at least ten other examples of this table known , and that might well have dampened enthusiasm for it ’ . |
| 17 | The Chomskian might advance the speculative thesis that any mutation causing children to search immediately in the right class of grammars would have a great selective advantage , and that such evolutionary change might well have taken place , producing human beings who are now pre-programmed to process linguistic data in a specific way . |
| 18 | Linden Joseph , the lithe Guyanese who spent a disappointing season with Hampshire in 1990 , might well have won Test selection as well but injury , consistently his nemesis , struck him down during the A series . |
| 19 | Through its network the Red Cross manages to connect people who might otherwise have lost touch forever . |
| 20 | He manufactured stories about the cannibalistic Caribs he never met : without the Admiral 's inventive mind , Shakespeare 's audience might never have encountered Caliban on Prospero 's island . |
| 21 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |
| 22 | I appreciate that you might recently have sent information on your sponsorship opportunities to the Advisory Service on the old-style pink forms but I would ask you to provide the information again on the new form . |