Example sentences of "might [adv] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smell , coming from the rear of a building , might easily have been the unpleasant odour given off by a dustbin in need of emptying . |
| 2 | This conclusion is devoid of party political implication ; the situation might easily have been the same if the parties in opposition and government had been transposed . |
| 3 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 4 | This mosaic is the more imposing piece of work , but the fragment might also have been the central display of a comparable arrangement . |
| 5 | Yet he sensed that those next few minutes , after Ashenden had finished speaking with Kemp , might well have been the crucial ones in that concatenation of events which had finally led to murder ; and he questioned Ashenden further . |
| 6 | Lord Clifford , if not an eccentric peer , might almost have been the archetypal spendthrift one , for , despite a rental of £453 a year , his home in Skipton castle was appraised at a mere £60 ; similarly his son , Sir Henry Clifford , had £80 a year , but only £8 in personal estate . |
| 7 | In some cases it might have been irrelevant because companies would have decentralized anyway ; in others it might have enabled decentralization or , in combination with other factors encouraged it ; in some cases it might indeed have been the single most important immediate consideration . |
| 8 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |