Example sentences of "might have be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 2 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 3 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
| 4 | For the Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory Organisation ( Lautro ) , the regulator charged with supervising life offices and their agents , one or two mishaps might have been regarded as the inevitable teething troubles of a new system . |
| 5 | In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) . |
| 6 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 7 | Watson 's lament might have been couched in Shakespearian speech . |
| 8 | In 1849 even Richard Owen hinted briefly that the modifications of the vertebrate archetype might have been unfolded by non-miraculous causes : |
| 9 | All conventional religious structures would be excluded from this sanction , as they were utterly ineffectual , and presented a useful distraction for some souls who might have been tempted towards esoteric practices . |
| 10 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 11 | A typical examination question could ask for comment on , say , how the designers of Word for Windows might have been influenced by Ventura Publisher . |
| 12 | This was on-the-edge black comedy that dispelled any vestige of condescension that might have been felt towards the performers . |
| 13 | The embarrassment might have been felt as relief . |
| 14 | Wider social policies , which might have been incorporated into regenerative programmes effected by local government , have been muted if not abandoned . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The cycle might have been written for the celebrated dramatic powers of Maria Ewing . |
| 17 | Patrick Marnham , though a diligent chronicler of the events of Simenon 's life , is equally soft on the books and the man ; the biography might have been written by Inspector Maigret himself , with his motto of ‘ understand , and do not judge ’ as its guiding principle . |
| 18 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 19 | as it might have been written by William Wordsworth |
| 20 | as it might have been written by T.S . |
| 21 | The article Halfway to liberation ( Trade Wars NI 204 ) might have been written by an IMF boffin . |
| 22 | The roar might have been heard on the other side of the Tamar Bridge . |
| 23 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 24 | His Mr Sebastian of 1955 and the interesting Red Road of 1962 might have been painted in France or Germany rather than London . |
| 25 | A farmer working a pair of shire-horses , and probably ably praying that the weather would hold , moved into his line of vision giving a touch of life to a scene that might have been painted in oils . |
| 26 | In the negotiations in which the King now attempted to play off Parliament , Army and Scots against each other , he acted with a degree of duplicity which might have been justified by success ; it was disastrous , however , when his intercepted correspondence revealed the irreconcilable offers which he had made and his intention to go back on his agreements . |
| 27 | In answer to our persistent questioning , he bravely confessed the truth we had asked for — that Leslie and his men , in spite of the fact that they were wearing uniform , might have been shot as franc-tireurs . |
| 28 | If I had n't done that I might have been shot in the eye and could have gone blind . |
| 29 | There he suggests that the extant megalithic monuments are preferentially located in areas underlain by older rock ( without acknowledging that such monuments over younger rock in the south and east Britain might have been destroyed by later development ) , and close to geological faults which he believes cause a luminous aerial phenomenon , sometimes called a UFO ! |
| 30 | Unfit scrappers with a weight difference of a couple of stone can slug it out for as long as the organizers see fit and the sport can accommodate fighters who might have been barred from the more formal ring or people who want to avoid the cartels that run the official game . |