Example sentences of "might have [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give me something that might have caused that situation to lose confidence . |
| 2 | Then afraid he might have sounded gallant George added : ‘ Somebody 's got to make sure your military instinct for loot does n't take over . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 6 | This ‘ gorgeous gargoyle ’ ( thespian O'Toole 's ) description ) might have played more Tests had Underwood not been around , but he has still made a wide impression on the game , made more lasting by this unexpected offering . |
| 7 | You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’ |
| 8 | Presenting less raw data might have allowed more scope to look at certain issues in more depth . |
| 9 | The development officers themselves became concerned about the low level of statutory services in their areas , and concluded that the Home Support Project might have to provide considerable input to fill the gap between what statutory services could provide and what the dementia sufferer might need in order to remain at home . |
| 10 | We might have got this contract finished , but for your God-damned Feast Day . |
| 11 | Equally problematic is the validity of Sidonius 's very cultured presentation of the barbarian courts of Theodoric II , Euric and Chilperic I. Here , the author might have had political reasons to present the barbarians in as positive a light as possible . |
| 12 | Of course , he might have had dental work done abroad . " |
| 13 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 14 | We might have expected this switch to reinforce the downward trend in the ratio of direct to indirect tax receipts . |
| 15 | April might have forbidden Wee Charlie to have any more lemonade , but she 'd said nothing about sweets . |