Example sentences of "might have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Being left alone for a while might have a calming effect .
2 The new Procurator , Julius Classicianus , began to fear that the devastation might have a serious lasting effect on the rebel areas .
3 Nathan Bryce might have a temporary advantage , but no slate-eyed , ruthless , mercenary businessman with a calculator instead of a heart was going to get the better of her .
4 Just the first kit , yes I shall probably do that there put it in without an envelope looks like there might , I might have so an odd I got some more of the envelopes at home I might have a small one , but er
5 ‘ He might have a spare can , ’ said Joanne .
6 Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation .
7 The murders might have a political motive .
8 Went back yesterday , tomorrow I 'll carry on , Thursday I might have a lay in
9 They had come , they said , to take Klein to lunch and to have a friendly discussion about a matter in which he might have a mutual interest .
10 You might have a slight problem , because we use the same I 'll I 'll try and get out the cash .
11 They prepared the resus. room , and when all was ready they informed the patients still waiting that they might have a slight delay due to an emergency that was being brought in .
12 An executive might have a limited opportunity to see for himself/herself conditions in a foreign country .
13 In January 1990 Roh said that the opposition might have a limited say in discussions on reunification , but invitations delivered to Panmunjom on Jan. 15 were nevertheless turned down .
14 He thinks you might have a typical jug and basin set of the Twenties to Thirties .
15 Here was her chance to find out exactly what the police were up to — it sounded as if they might have a new lead .
16 Dear Mr Westgate , I think we should have more footpaths or we might have a good chance of being killed .
17 Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story .
18 The fact that such monitoring was taking place might have a salutary effect on the behaviour of those responsible for selecting medical staff .
19 They were understandably concerned to steer a middle course between over-confidence which might lead to an excessive number of candidates and realism which might have a restrictive effect .
20 Although Levi promised to work to unite the party " in order to heal the wound " , commentators claimed that the affair had exposed deep divisions in the party which might have a major impact on the June 23 general election .
21 you might have a grand child to wrap up something for .
22 In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself .
23 So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful .
24 The Collector suspected that the Bard 's success in this respect might have a great deal to do with the ballistic advantages stemming from his baldness .
25 It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function .
26 The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities .
27 Mrs Hamilton said that she did not discover that she might have a legal action until 1988 .
28 It may seem strange that lawyers might have a vested interest in making the law move faster .
29 Now , if we think about actions which might have a beneficial effect on welfare or on conservation , there are some which benefit both at the same time .
30 This research was stimulated by a recognition that we might have a rare opportunity , through being granted privileged access to assault victims in a busy hospital accident and emergency department , to study serious assaults which may or may not have been reported to the police and , therefore , the definition of which as crimes is still open to question .
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