Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 2 | The public fantasies of television might have destroyed the need for private ones . |
| 3 | Given time , he might have destroyed the British Union of Fascists single-handed by his cold-hearted vindictiveness . |
| 4 | He decided not to wipe his face , which had started to run in its usual sleepy-fruit way , because to do so might have destroyed the impression . |
| 5 | Melanie could not have supported a laughing , singing Victoria for breakfast and Uncle Philip might have struck the baby , which would have been dreadful . |
| 6 | This at least showed some foresight , since the number of beds in which Stephen might have missed a heartbeat and a vital document were legion . |
| 7 | He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound . |
| 8 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 9 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 10 | Johnson comments , ‘ To make this way , the rock has been hewn to a level with labour that might have broken the perseverance of a Roman legion . ’ |
| 11 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 12 | The only budget announcement that might have influenced the mid-Staffordshire result was the doubling of the savings limit for those entitled to claim poll-tax relief . |
| 13 | They are questions about the procedural advantages which could be derived from the extraordinary procedure , and which might have influenced the use of trusts instead of the parallel institutions of the civil law . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , other forms of assessment do not lend themselves to precise measures of test-retest reliability and the clinician may need to judge how far situational factors might have influenced the two assessments . |
| 15 | Tess also felt guilty that her presence might have influenced the farmer . |
| 16 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
| 17 | The English might have created the form of Irish oppression , Engels wrote in 1848 , but the poverty was due to the temperament of the people . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher 's gamble , which might have caused a huge crisis and the fall of the government , came off triumphantly . |
| 19 | There was no sign of any sort of weapon , either a firearm related to the cartridges , or the kind of heavy instrument that might have caused the injury from which the man had apparently died . |
| 20 | It might have cleared a little more by now . " |
| 21 | Someone might have warned the poor girl that Peckinpah 's movies do have that effect on some people . |
| 22 | The establishment has taken over and the more wrong it has proved , the more it has stifled the dissent that might have saved the economy . |
| 23 | A substantial injection of advertising revenue , or an increase in its cover price , might have saved the Herald , albeit as a temporary solution . |
| 24 | Accordingly , companies could find themselves in front of the Review Panel when an early discussion with the UITF might have saved an embarrassing discussion . |
| 25 | Good co-ordinated fire might have wrecked the two galleys , and she could have got on course before Crackbene arrived . |
| 26 | Ordinarily a ‘ deserving ’ widow might have sought the aid of various charities first , but apparently Mrs Woodward 's lack of deference made this impossible . |
| 27 | ‘ So … so you might have wanted the boat for you and her … during the next six months ? ’ |
| 28 | Shifting more of the cost of training to the private sector in this way might have posed a problem , even in a buoyant economy . |
| 29 | It was further agreed that a three-year course would be too expensive , especially as entrants might have served a part or the whole of a long apprenticeship beforehand . |
| 30 | This law has not served the best interests of air safety even though it might have satisfied a curious public . |