Example sentences of "might have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This facility was not available to Brian and , in retrospect , might have been of benefit . |
| 2 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 3 | What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost . |
| 4 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 5 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 6 | No one knows what these carved objects might have been for , so perhaps they were n't for anything , but a heartening prehistoric example of art for art 's sake . |
| 7 | IT WAS a case of what might have been for Scottish trio Cathy Panton-Lewis , Julie Forbes and Gillian Stewart in the opening round of the Republic of China Open at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday . |
| 8 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
| 9 | That might have been for very good environmental and health reasons . |
| 10 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat . |
| 12 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 13 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 14 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 15 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 16 | It might have been on the table , obscured by this banner . |
| 17 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 18 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 19 | It might have been on the Saturday . |
| 20 | It had not occurred to her that the snooping might have been on a more professional level . |
| 21 | His eye might have been on an altogether different target |
| 22 | For a start , most dealers were young and ignorant characters who before drifting into their present positions might have been on the dole , or at University , or in menial office jobs , at which time they probably did n't even know what stocks and shares were . |
| 23 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 24 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 25 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 26 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 27 | That 's why you might have been on it you see . |
| 28 | When she might have been at her most useful , since she was so much more skilled in nursing than Annunciata , she was not allowed near Mrs Browning . |
| 29 | However naughty we might have been at school , this was not mentioned at home . |
| 30 | She was barely seventeen , the youngest of the Three Musketeers , as they had styled themselves long ago ; yet in everything except appearance she might have been at least ten years older . |