Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saroj Lal , director of Lothian Racial Equality Council , said , however , that Mr McNeill 's comments might have caused greater harm than could be offset by an apology . |
| 2 | AFTER lunching with Tory candidate Simon Fowler attacking Frank Cook 's 881 Labour majority in Stockton North last Tuesday 's Diary suggested that the sandwiches at the Centenary in Norton might have seen better days . |
| 3 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 4 | That in turn might have given wider diplomatic and political options a chance . |
| 5 | Creggan might have stayed longer but that he became aware of a man silhouetted on the skyline . |
| 6 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 7 | They might have gone higher but this is a matter of principle . |
| 8 | Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges . |
| 9 | Later abolitionists exemplified in Buxton and Cropper , though it might have seemed easier for them to adopt antislavery as a routine , not only maintained vital feeling in their commitment but possessed sufficient accompanying serenity — ‘ we have more than human help ’ — to accommodate setbacks and ‘ to triumph over the storms which surround them ’ . |
| 10 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 11 | Songs My Mother Taught Me , by Martin Dalby , opened the concert and this may have been a planning mistake , for its moony , relaxed idiom with little rhythmic excitement might have fared better later on . |
| 12 | In fact , apart from torturing their pupils daily , they had taught them well enough ; brighter subjects might have produced better results . |
| 13 | The prognostic value of this parameter might have been higher if the follow up of our patients had been longer , since some of the patients with high upper crypt labelling indeces who did not relapse might have experienced later recurrences . |