Example sentences of "might have been [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way . |
| 2 | The Bill might have been opposed in all its stages in both Houses of parliament , and altogether you would have had to spend about £1,000 or £1,200 . |
| 3 | By 1988 it was claimed that £200 million of Urban Development Grant and Urban Regeneration Grant had successfully ‘ levered ’ more than £800 million of private investment into the inner cities ( although how much of the latter sum might have been invested in any case is difficult to say ) . |
| 4 | This new virus now might have been mutated in such a way that the er antibodies which are present at , at the moment , are not able to recognize and destroy this new virus . |
| 5 | ‘ You are not suggesting that she might have been sacrificed in some demoniacal ritual , are you , Burney ? ’ |
| 6 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 7 | It was obvious to them that Danzig , up to the advent of the Nazis , had been far freer from racial strife and entrenched national rivalry than might have been expected in such a complex and explosive economic and political environment . |
| 8 | Perhaps the clergyman who eventually did open the door might have been included in this category , surprised though she was to see him . |