Example sentences of "might have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They have no ‘ implication of utterance ’ : whatever meaning potential they might have is remote from any realization , since the contexts which would provide the occasion for their use are of unlikely occurrence . |
2 | I mean I think you 'll find that erm that there was an amaz you know I mean that , that while the language might have been simple it was n't simplistic and , but the change in a in a way now is around . |
3 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
4 | But if the then Prime Minister had been governing by decree based on policies formed by her own beliefs , credit might have been easy . |
5 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
6 | The speculation might have been premature but Rioch has since applied for the job . |
7 | Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower . |
8 | Mum and Dad 'd come , get interviewed by the Chief Inspector : ‘ Do you think , Mr Marquis , that your daughter might have been involved in something more serious — breaking and entering , drug trafficking ? ’ |
9 | Limerick being warned not to drink their tapwater , as local authority officials worried that cyanide might have been involved in the spillage . |
10 | This business of him going missing … ’ began the Brigadier , ‘ It 's possible that he might have been involved in something big . |
11 | However , some reports speculated that Sikh extremists might have been involved in the murder . |
12 | They say they have only tenuous evidence Gary might have been involved in drugs . |
13 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
14 | Dead is dead , no matter who signs the warrant , though it might have been nice to think that BW had felt compassion when she typed that letter and a bit of respect , maybe , for Stoker Gerry McKeown of the Mercantile Marine . |
15 | Even then , all might have been well . |
16 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | A IT was Powdery Mildew and it might have been possible to save the Begonias . |
19 | During your two years in Paris as Colnaghi 's representative , how much has your presence been of importance to selling as opposed to finding more sources of paintings than might have been possible from the London or New York base ? |
20 | Initially Verity Lambert was resistant to this change , only in retrospect agreeing this gave Susan 's character greater depth than otherwise might have been possible : |
21 | The memory was there , and recall at leisure might have been possible if your study techniques were good . |
22 | More involvement by Contact members might have been possible , with a radical reformulation of internal policies clarifying the group 's primary function . |
23 | Fifteen , maybe twenty years ago it might have been possible . |
24 | From this it might have been possible to develop a philosophy in which humankind had a responsibility towards the other species with which we share the earth . |
25 | ‘ It might have been possible to prevent this . ’ |
26 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
27 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
28 | For P , the weights have to be recalculated for each current year and , again , current patterns might have been unreasonable in the base year . |
29 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
30 | He might have been shy but he was not overtly quirky , poetic , or obsessed with icons such as James Dean or Oscar Wilde . |