Example sentences of "might have [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 2 | Had the only purpose of my visit been to discover what Kenya is really like I might have saved on the air fare and just bought the book . |
| 3 | Dozens of literate psychometricians might have commented on the shallowness of the books the Times usually chooses to review . |
| 4 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 5 | A weaker person might have buckled under the strain , but Healey bounced back , and it is his considerable inner strength which gives this account of his life in politics its particular charm . |
| 6 | It can identify the brief passage of an animal that might have run across the ground in front of it several hours previously . |
| 7 | Any relief Widnes might have felt at the non-appearance of the injured Meninga after half-time evaporated when Myler departed with a head wound a minute after the restart . |
| 8 | She shines , too : one never could ignore her despite the enormous charm of her victims come to seek their revenge , first in Saks 's gloomy room then in his enchanted Gauguin -esque forest , whose colours the child herself might have smeared on the walls with sticky fists . |
| 9 | If evolution had continued in that vein , the elephants and the dormice might have crossed in the middle ! |
| 10 | No matter what reservations Churchill might have entertained about the Atlantic Charter and whether or not freedom was meant to apply to colonial territories , the unworthiness of France to return to Indochina was soon to become one of Roosevelt 's fixed ideas on colonialism and an issue that would bedevil relations between all the Allied powers in Southeast Asia with the possible and ironic exception of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | And try and personalise it , I do n't mind if you refer to any information that you might have gathered during the evening , a bit like I did with Andrew . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 13 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 14 | However , it is believed that in the virgin planet 's oceans there evolved , by chance , complicated molecules called ‘ proteinoid globules ’ ( or ‘ proteinoid microspheres ’ ) ; alternatively , these molecules might have formed on the slopes of the primordial volcanoes and been washed , by rain , down to the seas . |
| 15 | IF ALGERNON Swinburne had been an able seaman he might have referred to the sea as ‘ the oggin ’ but certainly not as ‘ the great sweet mother ’ , which he did . |
| 16 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 17 | Otherwise , junk issuers wanting to cut their debt might have to resort to the bankruptcy courts to encourage their debt-holders to accept stock . |
| 18 | Whatever resentments he might feel , whatever threats he might have voiced against the star , the understudy was now totally caught up in his task , spacing the lines with total concentration , caught up in the communal will for the subterfuge to work . |
| 19 | These differences might have to do with the aspects of context which are differentiated and generalized , or with the distribution of responsibility for denoting these aspects within the formal resources of the language , within its lexis , morphology , and syntax . |
| 20 | I might have risen to the heights , |
| 21 | She might have stayed at the home for years — people do . |
| 22 | Many of the amino acids are coded by more than one triplet ( as you might have guessed from the fact that there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids ) . |
| 23 | There was no incredible bulging at the centre ; no cracks , no jagged patches where plaster might have fallen under the strain . |
| 24 | This might have led to the charges being dropped , or alternatively might have considerably strengthened the case for the prosecution . |
| 25 | It is very important that the prospective auditor/ adviser be made fully aware of all the relevant facts which might have led to the breakdown of the previous client relationship . |
| 26 | Those future profits include grants that he might have received from the government for installing drains ( these can cover up to 80 per cent of the cost of the scheme ) and the value of anticipated production , which may be doubled by subsidies under the EEC 's Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 27 | It is thought that there might , it might have remained in the hands of some diplomats who were transferring it , and there were two of these issues , there is one in a private collection at present , so this is a second one , and number eight which is coming out for sale , but the number seven did change hands er a couple of years ago , so at about fifty five thousand pounds I believe . |
| 28 | There was also the possibility that he might have aspired to the kind of girl that his father clearly admired — a highly-trained twentieth-century girl , possibly American , possibly with executive experience . |
| 29 | Not because of their undoubted erudition , acuity and ( not least ) charm have pre-empted everything we , their successors , might have to say on the matter ( culture is evolving at too vertiginous a speed for that to happen ) , but because we are n't alone in having read Barthes and Eco and assimilated their methodology . |
| 30 | In fact , as is now abundantly clear , it meant that the Government would ratify Maastricht , but without the social chapter , whatever Parliament might have to say on the matter . |