Example sentences of "[noun] might have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 2 | Also news of such extravagance might have perturbed a suspicious Emperor . |
| 3 | Gregory might have made a deliberate choice . |
| 4 | So there were two key consequences ; one was that universities came to see that planning of such change might have produced a better result : the other that vengeful dons denied Mrs Thatcher her honorary degree from Oxford . |
| 5 | According to the evidence at the trial , only Zaidie bore witness to the defendant 's telephoned confession , but the defence might have promoted a viable theory of conspiracy if they had been able to show that Matadial had also testified to a confession , then resiled from it in her deposition , taken the offensive again in her addendum and finally opted for a female voice in her evidence . |
| 6 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 7 | Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending . |
| 8 | Had we our Annuall Parliaments Settled , the Negative Voice Restrained , a Committee of Lords and Commons to be the Privy-Council , no Officers of the King to serve in Parliament , the Revenue Appropriated , all Eminent Offices had upon good Behaviour and Election of Members to Parliament secured , the Work might have deserved a better Character " . |
| 9 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 10 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 11 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 12 | This says that ‘ greater freedom of communication by those professional advisers to the regulators might have had a significant effect on subsequent action , and hence on the later course of events ’ . |
| 13 | Unlike the fourth floor of Lloyd 's , it has a purpose-built trading floor , but the exchange might have to sign a longer lease than it needs . |
| 14 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 15 | Severiano Ballesteros might have endured a long summer of discontent , pointing to both mental and physical problems for his loss of form , but his absence from the leaderboards , conspicuous though it might have been , is consistent with the capricious nature of the sport . |
| 16 | The presence of the Seoul 100 metres silver medallist might have attracted a few more through the turnstiles had the Scottish AAA not agreed to keep his entry a secret at the request of the athlete himself , a fact which inevitably leaked out leaving the promoters somewhat embarrassed . |
| 17 | Wimbledon might have conceded a second goal on the stroke of half-time when Harford curled his shot narrowly over after a poor clearance by Segers . |
| 18 | What he asked was guidance in the matter of a young man 's death , a clean young man who handled lambs with gentleness and care , as lambs of God , and never deserved to be done to death suddenly before his time , however the love of God might have set a secure hand under him as he fell , and lifted him into light . |
| 19 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 20 | A close observer might have noticed a slight stiffening of Albert 's back , but otherwise he gave no sign of hearing . |
| 21 | Are there no other types of thing for which Moore might have claimed a similar high value in isolation ? |
| 22 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 23 | Government leaders might have welcomed a united report from the Royal Commission , which could have justified real reform of the Poor Law . |
| 24 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 25 | Tampopo might have sold a few more bowls of noodles and Babette 's Feast caused little hiccups of interest in historic cooking , but The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover plays around with the relationship between food , sex and death in a way that is bound to cause offence . |
| 26 | Had this been the only ground of complaint , their Lordships might have reached a different conclusion on the appeal . |
| 27 | An open-fronted building at Holditch , containing cooking vessels , a large quern and an oven might have provided a similar service , while the evidence for a counter in the vicus at Greta Bridge points to another obvious gap in the evidence . |
| 28 | Flaubert might have made a similar avowal — ‘ I leave two children , Bouvard and Pécuchet ’ — because his only child , the niece who became a daughter , had departed into disapproving adulthood . |
| 29 | Jimmy grinned — at any other time Leith might have had a quiet word with him about his cheek . |
| 30 | Thirdly , more prolonged treatment might have shown a late effect . |