Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 2 | Only one thing was clear ; his anxiety about how much I might have heard from Mitford and Leverrier was now explained . |
| 3 | The William and Mary declaration being 1688 , it suggests that such a lease might have run from that date , but it could have been earlier , in which case such an arrangement would have been almost certainly ultra vires . |
| 4 | The dummies in the windows wore clothes so unlike Helen 's that they might have stepped from some other culture : rainbow colours , fabrics of wondrous texture and design , skirts like puffballs or split like a dancer 's . |
| 5 | A Martian arriving in Britain in late 1992 might have gathered from window-stickers along the high streets that mortgages were cheap and plentiful . |
| 6 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 7 | Their ‘ look ’ changes almost imperceptibly ; between 1975 and 1985 for instance , a major style point can be seen in the daywear of the young ( 24-year-old ) yah female : in 1975 her swanlike neck might have risen from the neat collar of a Jaeger shirt with single strand of pearls and a scarf tied as cravat in attendance . |
| 8 | Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer . |
| 9 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
| 10 | Many of the amino acids are coded by more than one triplet ( as you might have guessed from the fact that there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids ) . |
| 11 | The service of the pastor was exemplified in Christ 's washing of his disciples ' feet , and so , whatever little present he might have received from another bishop , back went a towel from a seemingly inexhaustible linen cupboard . |
| 12 | Those future profits include grants that he might have received from the government for installing drains ( these can cover up to 80 per cent of the cost of the scheme ) and the value of anticipated production , which may be doubled by subsidies under the EEC 's Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 13 | Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post . |
| 14 | This might have stemmed from inadequate foundations , but what evidence there is suggests otherwise . |
| 15 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |
| 16 | Even mankind might have developed from a different species . |
| 17 | Repairs to the existing masonry were carried out in matching brickwork and the purpose-made joinery of new windows and external doors has been retained in its natural colour under a clear sealant , rather than being painted , which might have detracted from the mellow textures of the renovated building ( Plate 51 ) . |
| 18 | While he clearly believed what he was saying , and while his image might have faded from the general consciousness , Vitor d'Arcos was too commanding , too vital , too much the male sexual animal to ever be considered ordinary . |
| 19 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |
| 20 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
| 21 | That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) . |
| 22 | He had a lean face and dark eyes that might have come from either his Gaelic or Jewish ancestry . |
| 23 | Just consider the additional impact that might have come from more popular scheduled kick-off times ( floodlit games all round ? ) when , again in ABC1 men ratings , New Zealand v Italy ‘ scored ’ 11 per cent , Wales v Argentine 16 per cent , France v Canada 11 per cent , New Zealand v Canada 13 per cent and Australia v New Zealand 16 per cent . |
| 24 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 25 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 26 | He took rehearsals in an ancient overcoat that might have come from Gogol 's dustbin . |
| 27 | It was impossible to detect in the dried slough a darker hair which might have come from Lorrimer 's head , or with the naked eye to distinguish his blood . |
| 28 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 29 | It is perhaps possible that were Murad II returning from a great victory , Molla Yegan might have come from Bursa to greet him , but such seems not to have been the case . |
| 30 | ‘ Might have come from Mrs Marr . |