Example sentences of "might have been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 2 | The Kent Spring Rally on 1 March might have been a total ‘ white-out ’ but for the admirable spirit of Kent members , who ploughed their way through a freshly deposited six-inch fall of snow to get there . |
| 3 | Otherwise it might have been a great deal more difficult to ignore . |
| 4 | He was led from the neutral entrance hall by a quiet , equally neutral young man , who might have been a civil servant , into a room in which the walls carried friezes that depicted the perversions which the brothel traded in . |
| 5 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 6 | Others believed that nervousness over forced repatriation might have been a contributory factor in the incident , following the October 1991 agreement between the United Kingdom and Vietnam [ see p. 38531 ] that any refugees arriving after that date would be returned home . |
| 7 | With 80 per cent of the seats in the arena again empty , it might have been a good opportunity to bus in the LTA 's young hopefuls to see for themselves what success in the game requires . |
| 8 | Publishing the old figures compiled from Job Centres , said Mr Hibbert , alongside the new ones might have been a good idea just to show how misleading the old ones had been . |
| 9 | Mir Jafar , who was made Nawab , had an adequate claim to the throne and might have been a good ruler under other circumstances , but it was quite clear that he was on the throne simply because the Company had decided to put him there . |
| 10 | He had n't shaved recently , and a little soap might have been a good idea . |
| 11 | For some time now , the SARA Executive has been seeking input more generally from the rowing population for the updating of its Development Plan , but what might have been a good idea to achieve this seems set for a less than successful conclusion . |
| 12 | It might have been a religious conversion , in which the partner did not share . |
| 13 | ‘ There might have been a religious question . |
| 14 | Complications at the time of birth may cause mental handicap in the young child which might have been a normal foetus . |
| 15 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 16 | He appeared to allay this concern during the present hearings by admitting to mistakes , specifically not following up on the vague information available to him that there might have been a covert operation and unquestioningly accepting the repeated reassurances of his superior , the then CIA director William J. Casey , that government officials were not involved in illicit activities . |
| 17 | It might have been a comforting word here , a quick verbal lashing there . |
| 18 | It might have been a technical failure or it might have been an action on the part of the operating crew or , indeed , a combination of both . |
| 19 | Or it might have been a bigger concern than I ken . |
| 20 | Darwin was troubled by the sudden appearance of a wide diversity of fossils in the Cambrian , and tentatively suggested that there might have been a long interval prior to this period when no stratal record was preserved on the continents . |
| 21 | It might have been a suitable sales pitch for conglomerates shifting Blood Sweat & tears albums ; it produced some qualms amongst It staffers and others . |
| 22 | And er well that might have been it , A Asthana might have been a tiny baby . |
| 23 | For example , you might have been a mere , much more happy about making a sacrifice for your brother , giving him a sweet , if you knew that on other occasions , he would give one to you , and because you are related to each other . |
| 24 | Given the complexities of concurrent working , there might have been a hundred and one other explanations . |
| 25 | The incident on the Bridge might have been a clumsy attempt by a third party to bump off the middle man . ’ |
| 26 | After all , ’ she went on , ‘ it might have been a private call — to a lover or someone . ’ |
| 27 | She heard him mutter something which might have been a mild swear word as he studied the Dobermann 's handiwork , but , his examination over , she quickly pulled up her sock again , and just as quickly planted that foot alongside her other one . |
| 28 | This raises questions at present unanswerable , and complicated by the existence of a second long base in the sanctuary which seems to have supported a pursuit-scene ( possibly Zeus and the Nymph Aegina on whom he begot Aiakos , Telamon 's father ) ; and this might have been a first west pediment . |
| 29 | That is because , even though Maine might have been a better guide than Morgan concerning the evolution of kinship , Morgan was a much better guide than Maine concerning the evolution of property . |
| 30 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |