Example sentences of "might have [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision might have been regarded as one asserting the value of individual choice , but the Court put it on a rather different basis , saying that ‘ the implementation of the rights conferred on the employees by the Directive could not be dependent on the consent either of the transferor or of the transferee or of the employees themselves , wit |
| 2 | This might have been regarded as making the local manager 's job more straightforward but as one set of pressures was removed others made themselves felt . |
| 3 | Had the boys boarded a train to Carlisle and caused damage there , this might have been regarded as too remote . |
| 4 | And the w the road might have been widened but the houses are the same and er the er of course with a lot of The old factories have been pulled down , Mills was pulled down , that was a v very prosperous f factory at one time , when I was a boy , but er I 'm afraid that went according to you know the lack of trade . |
| 5 | Although it might have been hoped that local and central government would redirect main programmes to the benefit of the cities , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 6 | The place looked fortified , not as a grim walled castle but impregnable all the same , with thick walls and , in the centre of the square , unornamented two-storey building , a stocky tower from which arrows or muskets might have been shot or red-hot ploughshares hurled down on invaders . |
| 7 | Matey , like Dr Neil , thought that McAllister might have been spoiled and pampered in her old life , but she had certainly been exposed to many good principles of conduct , even if she was headstrong . |
| 8 | The share of total energy usage accounted for by nuclear power will rise from 4% to 7% , a far lower level of increase than might have been achieved but for the Three Mile Island incident . |
| 9 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 10 | If colonoscopy had been done the extensive nature of the disease might have been recognised and the patient would have entered the programme . |
| 11 | A certain gentleman might have been punished if somebody had passed by and seen them . ’ |
| 12 | Looking simplistically at her behaviour at home it might have been assumed that she conformed to a typical stereotype of an AD sufferer . |
| 13 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 14 | Since Gregory belonged to the senatorial aristocracy , it might have been assumed that he would accept its literary traditions . |
| 15 | In another age and another society it might have been said that they loved each other . |
| 16 | It might have been said that since one representative was absent they could not do anything about it , but the fact of the matter is they plainly had come to their decision the day before . |
| 17 | If the statutes had gone no further , it might have been said that the regime was simply trying to turn all serfs into " obligated peasants " ( in line with Nicholas I 's statute of 1842 ) . |
| 18 | If the women had been less busy she might have been seen while she was exploring , but with Lady Marion 's own baby due soon they had plenty of fine weaving and sewing to occupy their eyes . |
| 19 | If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole . |
| 20 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 21 | Perhaps with a generous spirit on both sides some sort of accommodation might have been reached but before the possible constraints of the French Union became important there were more ominous developments , first in Vietnam , then in Paris , which would make a full-scale confrontation more likely . |
| 22 | Fewer lives might have been lost if Mr Milosevic and Mr Tudjman had last year been allowed to split Bosnia between them . |
| 23 | Lives might have been saved if he had not waited about two hours before reporting the crash in April last year . |
| 24 | They might have been saved if Rico had met tragedy with drama . |
| 25 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that I nearly disturbed the murderer — that I might have been killed as well ? |
| 26 | ‘ Is it possible , in your view , that he might have been killed because of his ‘ little campaigns ’ as you call them ? ’ |
| 27 | It claimed that some trees might have been listed as endangered through insufficient data , and decided that if the report were published , it could adversely affect efforts to sell species " mistakenly " included on the list . |
| 28 | It might have been anticipated that the Criminal Law Revision Committee would seek to put an end to this uncertainty , particularly since , if any guiding principle has informed its final report , it is that the law should distinguish firmly between consensual and non-consensual sexual activity . |
| 29 | The Australian bren gunner might have been caught as he moved smartly back up the steep hill had not ‘ two natives appeared from nowhere ’ and carried his gun at a quick trot over the hill . |
| 30 | On Jan. 19 , a further report in the UK press quoted " a senior US State Department official " and other experts to the effect that satellite pictures might have been misinterpreted and that the plant might indeed be intended for merely civilian uses . |