Example sentences of "might have be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 2 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 3 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 4 | It might have been good for the dockies , but it were n't no good for the lighterman . |
| 5 | The degree of colonic bioavailability might have been insufficient for other reasons . |
| 6 | Nor do I recognise the judges who can discriminate between frivolous and genuine employers in the Appeal Court ruling that dock strikes might have been illegal for the past 40 years . |
| 7 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 8 | Where there were departures from the common pattern special circumstances could often be identified which might have been responsible for the deviation . |
| 9 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |
| 10 | In 1968 the British Medical Journal documented a case that suggested the pill might have been responsible for causing something akin to St Vitus 's Dance . |
| 11 | Mujjaddedi had told media correspondents on May 31 that Hekmatyar 's men might have been responsible for the rocket attack on his aircraft on May 30 [ see p. 38915 ] . |
| 12 | For a minute she had believed she might have been responsible for the change in his life , but it was n't her but Maria Luisa . |
| 13 | It might have been OK for the prairies , but bottom was n't low enough to cope with the hills of Nanaimo . |
| 14 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 15 | The army might have been different for here was one ‘ duty ’ I thought I would enjoy , or at least understand . |
| 16 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |
| 17 | If he had allowed her to take him back to London , he might have been stuck for life with a woman in her thirties ( and getting older by the day ) . |
| 18 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |
| 19 | Such a theory might have been tailor-made for the justification of the housebound mother . |
| 20 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |