Example sentences of "might have been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mare might have been kicked by another horse . |
| 2 | Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 8 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 9 | This suggests that the violence might have been caused by these high hormone levels , not conditioning . |
| 10 | What might have been anticipated by some as a passage of tedious monotony was welcomed by Gould as an opportunity lull of excitement and discovery . |
| 11 | ‘ You are not suggesting that she might have been sacrificed in some demoniacal ritual , are you , Burney ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well sir , we figured that the beer mats might have been stolen by some rival bar-owner . |
| 13 | Annoyed that his cover might have been jeopardized for such a trivial reason , Coleman left Sasser 's office with the intention of coding an immediate complaint to Donleavy — only to run into Micheal T. Hurley on the stairway . |
| 14 | His eyes gleamed with what might have been taken for some inner illumination . |
| 15 | Had the attack been properly organized and coordinated , these vital heights might have been taken with little loss and the successes consolidated . |
| 16 | His staff was much too small to give a reasonable teaching course , and the absence of serious opposition that might have been provided by another English veterinary school meant there was no great stimulus to change . |
| 17 | The photo might have been modelled on those sent by the Red Brigades during the Moro kidnapping , but where those middle-class intellectuals had used the centre-left Repubblica to mark the date , Ruggiero Miletti was holding the Nazione , just the kind of paper which a bunch of good Catholic boys like the kidnappers would choose . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Both of the hypertonic ORS contained higher glucose concentrations and higher water obsorption might have been expected from these solutions because of a greater stimulatory effect on active glucose transport . |
| 21 | Most of these expensive incidents might have been avoided by this drill . |
| 22 | Johnson took this latter and soon ‘ began to wish that our curiosity might have been gratified with less trouble and danger ’ . |
| 23 | Perhaps the clergyman who eventually did open the door might have been included in this category , surprised though she was to see him . |