Example sentences of "might [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 2 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 3 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 4 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — windows that match the style of your house . |
| 5 | The only influence really the woman might have is in the love and affection level of operating , and it 's a very unfair power battle and that is , in fact , what it turns into . |
| 6 | This facility was not available to Brian and , in retrospect , might have been of benefit . |
| 7 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 8 | What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost . |
| 9 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 10 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 11 | No one knows what these carved objects might have been for , so perhaps they were n't for anything , but a heartening prehistoric example of art for art 's sake . |
| 12 | IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday . |
| 13 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
| 14 | That might have been for very good environmental and health reasons . |
| 15 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 16 | ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat . |
| 17 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 18 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 19 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 20 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 21 | It might have been on the table , obscured by this banner . |
| 22 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 23 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 24 | It might have been on the Saturday . |
| 25 | It had not occurred to her that the snooping might have been on a more professional level . |
| 26 | His eye might have been on an altogether different target |
| 27 | For a start , most dealers were young and ignorant characters who before drifting into their present positions might have been on the dole , or at University , or in menial office jobs , at which time they probably did n't even know what stocks and shares were . |
| 28 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 29 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 30 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |