Example sentences of "might [vb infin] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the only male singer in the cast able to convince that his part might have been written for him is Stafford Dean , who gives a beautifully focused and intelligent Kecal , somewhat constrained , though , by the context . |
| 2 | The cycle might have been written for the celebrated dramatic powers of Maria Ewing . |
| 3 | The infant Labour Party was just building its strength , but it was not yet capable of winning seats on its own , and it might have been checkmated for a generation by a positive social policy financed from tariffs . |
| 4 | North , carefully distracting Livingstone from the thought that hostages might have been ransomed for arms , gave him the Whole Picture . |
| 5 | It was n't a four-letter word , although when one uttered it , one might have been forgiven for thinking that it was . |
| 6 | The combined maps issued by the three tramway companies used a symbol to indicate through services , under the description ‘ Services are operated ’ , and the intending passenger might have been forgiven for expecting to see Company 's cars working on them . |
| 7 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 8 | While ELT publishing was still in its youth — in the days when both toes and fingers were needed to count the number of UK ELT publishers — one might have been forgiven for believing there was just a trace of the treasure hunt in its approach to the stern commercial discipline of market development . |
| 9 | One might have been forgiven for believing that the answer was to be determined by the label adopted by Parliament in creating the body in question . |
| 10 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 11 | With Maisie still keeping the regulation distance between the two of them , he almost ran after the headmaster , swinging his arms crazily and taking strides so long that a casual observer might have been forgiven for assuming that he , too , was practising the art of Islamic dancing . |
| 12 | Nearly a century and a half later Alexander II might have been forgiven for feeling an even greater degree of disappointment . |
| 13 | Such was the enthusiasm generated by the thousands of kids at the game that a passer-by might have been forgiven for thinking that either Take That or New Kids On The Block were performing at Ibrox rather than Scotland 's football team . |
| 14 | With so much good will in the air one might have been forgiven for thinking that there were no differences worth talking about . |
| 15 | It is conceivable that if an agreement had been signed and if henceforth Anglo-American relations had been bathed in sweetness and light , arrangements might have been made for pooling atomic weapons production . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , yes , madam — it might have been made for you . |
| 17 | ‘ The trenches might have been dug for anything , water pipes or sewers or something . ’ |
| 18 | And which of the men might have been mistaken for a woman ? |
| 19 | Hattie Jacques was the matron , a part so suited to her size and manner that the very occupation of hospital head nurse might have been created for her , let alone the role in ‘ Carry On ’ films . |
| 20 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 21 | I mean , they might have been stolen for him . ’ |
| 22 | Annoyed that his cover might have been jeopardized for such a trivial reason , Coleman left Sasser 's office with the intention of coding an immediate complaint to Donleavy — only to run into Micheal T. Hurley on the stairway . |
| 23 | Mr Parker added that while TV might have been substituted for the Beano and the Dandy , perennial favourite authors , such as Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl , were still very important to young people in Ulster . |
| 24 | The movement was not without criticism from those whose support might have been taken for granted ; Robertson Nicoll pronounced the 1894 Congress a ‘ failure ’ because ‘ it does not represent Nonconformity and it is wholly lacking in enthusiasm and initiative . ’ |
| 25 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 26 | If not twins , they might have been taken for brother and sister . |
| 27 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 28 | His eyes gleamed with what might have been taken for some inner illumination . |
| 29 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 30 | Without his influence , the vast energy expended on Wissenschaft over the centuries might have been used for purposes of individual or national aggrandizement . |