Example sentences of "it might have been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | possible , it might 've been a joke and she had managed to convince him unclear |
| 2 | It might have been a cat knocking an empty tumbler off the bar — except that they did n't keep a cat , and all the glasses had been washed up and put away before they went to bed . |
| 3 | It might have been a lie . |
| 4 | It might have been a necklace . ’ |
| 5 | It might have been a Seiko , but I could n't be sure . |
| 6 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 7 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 8 | I do n't think he 's right in what he says but I think it might have been a bit tongue in cheek as well . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you know , it might have been a bit sort of accidental , do n't you reckon ? ’ |
| 10 | And came to the uncomfortable conclusion that it might have been a warning … |
| 11 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |
| 12 | It might have been a relief to confide in someone , to get another person 's opinion , especially as Richard had known Elise . |
| 13 | The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago . |
| 14 | It might have been a weakness in his command of the language , but she did not think so . |
| 15 | He thought now it might have been a mistake . |
| 16 | Alternatively it might have been a shop purveying cooked food , or it could have provided eating facilities for travellers along the road . |
| 17 | It might have been a uniform although in fact it was not . |
| 18 | It might have been a loading bay , or a landing pad for one-person fliers . |
| 19 | The little blue trolls from space , the black-eyed pointy-chinned grey things in charge , the anal probing they inflicted on Christopher Walken inside something that looked like it might have been a UFO , event he awe-inspiring ham standard of Walken 's performance — they were all OK . |
| 20 | It might have been a cry for help — we just do not know . ’ |
| 21 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |
| 22 | It might have been a rock , a rill of sand , who knows , but the car took off . |
| 23 | it might have been a fishing outing , |
| 24 | He reckons that death was due to a fractured skull , caused by a blow on the head from some heavy but softish instrument — he suggested a piece of lead piping wrapped in a sock , but it might have been a sandbag , or anything like that . |
| 25 | It might have been a finger , but I was n't going to do anything hasty to find out . |
| 26 | Finally , we thought it might have been a lovers ' quarrel , but now I 'm not sure … " |
| 27 | Alice said , " It might have been an emergency , how were you to know ? |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 30 | That little mark on her arm … they reckon it might have been an injection ! ’ |