Example sentences of "might [adv] have been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it might just have been anxiety . |
| 2 | The colourless liquid in the glass she carried might just have been water , perhaps ; but whatever it was she seemed unwontedly sober . |
| 3 | There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others . |
| 4 | There was a transparent sachet of something brown and thick , chocolate paste or miso ; one dried-up anchovy in an open tin , its coat of salt dried to a hard crust ; and a smear of something on a saucer that might once have been pesto sauce . |
| 5 | He landed in a heap of what might once have been straw . |
| 6 | During 1845 no less than £45 : 0s. : 0d. was spent on slating and floor flagging at the Forge Cottages , which suggests the ground floors might originally have been earth — common enough . |
| 7 | Funnily enough , then , but for 296 or so bigoted votes , the Rt Hon RD Kernohan MP might now have been Secretary of State . |
| 8 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
| 9 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |