Example sentences of "might [adv] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MacDonald said that he ‘ might be of no further use , & should resign with the whole Cabinet ’ ; the night before his interview with the King , Baldwin had gone to Neville Chamberlain 's house in Eaton Square , and ‘ hoped and prayed that he might not have to join a National Government ’ ; even after his interview with the King . |
| 2 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 3 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
| 4 | With legislative elections due to be held the following year , de Gaulle knew that he might soon have to face a hostile majority committed to clawing back power from the president . |
| 5 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 6 | Astute readers might also have found a small note , placed in the magazine 's gossip column , referring to the front page story and reminding readers that it was 1 April — placed there by Birbeck as a precautionary measure . |
| 7 | A more inquiring mind might also have drawn a different conclusion from the most peculiar episode in the book , which concerns the death in Liege in 1922 of a young man called Kleine . |
| 8 | Were one to substitute the word ‘ nature ’ for the ‘ nature of art history ’ , then Degas might unwittingly have written a fitting description of this most recent book on his work . |
| 9 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 10 | Again , the trade guilds probably had enough storage space in their own guild-halls for the coffin and cloaks , they might even have had a private stock of candles . |
| 11 | Increase in annual temperature range on the continents as a consequence of regression of epicontinental seas might well have played a significant role in the mass extinctions of large reptiles at the end of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic . |
| 12 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 13 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 14 | I think that you might call Duff Hart-Davis a travel writer too , at least by osmosis , since his godfather was if I remember rightly Peter Fleming , who might well have had a stern word or two to say about Mrs Izzard 's book . |
| 15 | Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome . |
| 16 | Yanto realised he might well have to make a special journey to pick up the old man if Julie happened to be out . |
| 17 | This worked as a part of the discourse he was involved in ( the interview ) even if he did use a grammatical construction which might well have got a red line through it if he had written it as part of a school essay . |
| 18 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 19 | Tom Horrocks , who might otherwise have furnished a convenient buffer , had been drawn to the kitchen by the smell of newly baked bread , and was doubtless flirting disgracefully with Tilly and the kitchen-maids . |