Example sentences of "might [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some effects of the historical struggle against the domination of the abbey might arguably have persisted — the town was not incorporated until 1553 — though its evident prosperity shows that this no longer constituted a serious handicap . |
| 2 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |
| 3 | There he ‘ distinguished himself for Hebrew & Mathematics ’ , and might eventually have obtained a fellowship had he still been single . |
| 4 | Goldschmidt might rather have said : " Can we really assume that the birds , etc. are such poor observers ( or that some very stupid ones among them are ) ? " |
| 5 | Nevertheless , while the government might successfully have enacted and implemented its rate-capping proposals , this was not achieved without considerable political cost . |
| 6 | She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke . |
| 7 | If you had kept your mouth shut , Friar , we might perhaps have gained the truth . |
| 8 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 9 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 10 | At this stage , David Stirling might perhaps have allowed himself a moment or two of self-congratulation . |
| 11 | To a person more interested in the advance of science he might perhaps have tried to explain what he was after , but with Lucy he perceived that this would not be a success . |
| 12 | If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing . |
| 13 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 14 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 15 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 16 | Before a BBC Radio Cleveland debate yesterday , he was obliged to explain off air that because of an undemocratic stomach bug he might suddenly have to leave in the middle of the proceedings . |
| 17 | For wee might justly have done it our selves without you , if we had thought it convenient ; … " |
| 18 | What was needed however was a concrete demonstration of support by the British government , and this was most unlikely to be forthcoming , no matter how much the Queen might personally have hoped for it . |
| 19 | I 've had a letter and er there 's various lists of people you might all have got one eventually , I do n't know , but it 's from the university engineer . |
| 20 | If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book . |
| 21 | He might not have involved himself too much in the day-to-day running of the club , yet I was never in any doubt as to who made the final decisions . |
| 22 | Afterwards Leith could not help wondering if perhaps , with more experience of men , she might not have handled it better . |
| 23 | Because clients might not have accepted his African name , he worked under the pseudonym of Peter Mackenzie . |
| 24 | All right , my silence was a mistake , ’ she said hastily , when he frowned , ‘ but when I told you you might not have accepted that Thomas is yours . ’ |
| 25 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 26 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 27 | He might not have connected solidly with Jack Johnson — and his style was made for Muhammad Ali . ’ |
| 28 | Eliot himself might not have recognized them , just as he might have considered negligible the surface of his life which is apparent to biographers . |
| 29 | He had chosen an hour at which the emir would certainly have retired , and might not have heard of his arrival . |
| 30 | It might not have prevented her feelings for him from developing as they had , but it would certainly not have caused a change in the atmosphere in this place , and he might have remained livable with . |