Example sentences of "might have been [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 2 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 3 | so it might 've been Rob that went out with her , but I du n no . |
| 4 | The tourist might 've been cake . |
| 5 | It might have been cream . |
| 6 | The rival claimant , an Andreas Ruckers of 1651 , was produced by the piano house of John Broadwood and Sons , who deposed that this instrument had once belonged to Christopher Smith and thus might have been Handel 's . |
| 7 | The liquid inside might have been water . |
| 8 | He was smiling at the King with something that , under normal circumstances , might have been admiration . |
| 9 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 10 | In normal circumstances 1939 might have been election year . |
| 11 | In his speech to the Supreme Soviet Gorbachev emphasized that while there might have been misunderstandings between him and Pavlov there were no essential differences between them . |
| 12 | The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’ |
| 13 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 14 | It was easy to imagine that it might have been Camelot , like in the picture story-books I 'd read . |
| 15 | At first the sound might have been thunder , or an animal . |
| 16 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 17 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 18 | There is even one corner where life in the year 2000 B.C. is represented : when Alford , or whatever the site would have been known as then , would have consisted of straw huts where its inhabitants might have been weavers and flint tool makers . |
| 19 | It might have been Joanne 's dad , I |
| 20 | Well it might have been July , I ca n't remember . |
| 21 | She might have been Eve , as Milton has pictured her , sitting upon the green bank , looking into the pool . |
| 22 | And if the work had been put out to tender , savings to the council might have been £5m , the report found . |
| 23 | Apart from the Stones ' fingerprints , there might have been others on the paper , but the forensic lab liked all their bits and pieces presented in nice , clean polythene bags . |
| 24 | His real mother complained to social services that he had disappeared from home and might have been glue sniffing or taking drugs , it was alleged at Mold Crown Court . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , except that while I was pulling Harry along to that far corner to give him better support , someone opened the main door above our heads , like I told you , and then went away without saying anything , and I heard a car drive off , which might have been Harry 's . ’ |
| 26 | IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WINTER , THE SKY WAS SO low , thick and grey . |
| 27 | ‘ People are running around with guns and , even though these are loaded with blanks , there might have been accidents had we tried to transfer the action to a flat stage . |
| 28 | The men might have been centre stage on day one of Wimbledon , but thanks to Atalanta , the women will soon have their day in more ways than one . |
| 29 | ‘ It did go through my head — a wild surmise that the man might have been Gesner . |
| 30 | Character A — or it might have been B again , for he seemed to be a right prune — had left late or had left early travelling at half the speed of the other . |