Example sentences of "might have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In normal circumstances 1939 might have been election year . |
| 2 | The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’ |
| 3 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 4 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 5 | The men might have been centre stage on day one of Wimbledon , but thanks to Atalanta , the women will soon have their day in more ways than one . |
| 6 | The skeletons found on this site were buried in unorthodox manner and might have been plague victims . |
| 7 | It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you ever thought it might have been Mrs Downes who killed Dr Kemp ? |
| 9 | In one hand he held a sack , in the other what might have been metal traps , or not that at all but some kind of implement . |
| 10 | Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried , they might have been factory workers anywhere . |
| 11 | Undefined neurological diseases , which in retrospect might have been Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , had affected the patients ' fathers , who had died at age 68 and 71 respectively . |
| 12 | ‘ An excellent cake , miss , but perhaps a trifle overbaked , ’ Chignell said delicately , when Breeze remarked with a sigh that it might have been almond rock . |
| 13 | Like the twelfth floor , glimpsed through the lift doors when the girls had got out , the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash , unlike the twelfth they were hung with pictures , not Old Masters but not Boots the chemists either — prints of hunting scenes and ships and a beautiful soft sunset over a bay that might have been St Ives — pictures deemed suitable for the Executive floor of a great international company . |
| 14 | Someone from the Banco D'Oro was supposed to be meeting her , and this remote blond god certainly did n't look like a bank official — though he might have been Signor Corosini . |
| 15 | I think it mi , might have been Radio Stoke , I 'm not sure but I think it |
| 16 | I 've seen one oh it might have been Michael Jackson |
| 17 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |