Example sentences of "it might have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just as it might have been possible for you also , madame , ’ he had said . |
| 2 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 3 | Or it might have been his membership of that dashing elite , the air fighters of World War I. |
| 4 | Already there are suggestions from Australia that the Raiders ' post-Grand Final party lasted all the way to Manchester , in other words that their preparation for the game was not as dedicated as it might have been . |
| 5 | One of the reasons why it might have been felt necessary in the field-worker 's presence to define the neighbourhood role as primarily crime control is because , like community relations , the Neighbourhood Unit is aware that the section police see them as having an easy duty . |
| 6 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |
| 7 | Sir Adrian cites the example of the army commander who leads his troops over the top of the trenches when it might have been more prudent to stay put . |
| 8 | I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know . |
| 9 | In another age and another society it might have been said that they loved each other . |
| 10 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 11 | Although 1/9 UDR in Antrim and 11 UDR in Portadown passed relatively uneventful days in their respective areas , another day it might have been their turn to face the sort of challenges met by 3 , 5 , 6 , 7/10 and 8 UDR on 30 June 1989 . |
| 12 | The architect owner admits that it might have been better to regard the converted building primarily as a house and to order priorities for the location and constructional ‘ envelopes ’ of rooms accordingly . |
| 13 | It might have been himself a year ago . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm always in search of a bargain , sonny — for the people , you understand , ’ he added after yet another of those pauses that suggested it might have been an after-thought . |
| 15 | With 80 per cent of the seats in the arena again empty , it might have been a good opportunity to bus in the LTA 's young hopefuls to see for themselves what success in the game requires . |
| 16 | It might have been a Seiko , but I could n't be sure . |
| 17 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 18 | It might have been the stories about the blood pressure of inebriate volunteers being measured at 3am in the morning . |
| 19 | It might have been the blazing fire in the corner of this very upmarket restaurant . |
| 20 | Had Hagi played for Dinamo Bucharest , whose future is now in doubt because of its links with the notorious security police , Securitate , it might have been a different matter . |
| 21 | So suddenly , David had wanted something — I do n't know what it was — it might have been something like a synthesizer or some extraordinary thing for the show , but the money was n't there . |
| 22 | I am not decrying Sara in any way when I say it might have been more sensible for us to choose the leader . ’ |
| 23 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 24 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It might have been more honest to have said that the price paid for ending National Service was increased dependence on nuclear weapons . |
| 27 | The 1988 white paper which introduced the reforms was sensibly called ‘ Working for Patients ’ ; to listen to ministers and other Tory politicians , it might have been called ‘ Working for Accountants ’ . |
| 28 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 29 | It might have been induced to spend lots of money on dividend payments and on buying back shares , to boost share prices and keep shareholders sweet . |
| 30 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |