Example sentences of "it might have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In January Pressler , sponsor of a 1985 law under which the USA had suspended economic and military aid to Pakistan in October 1990 on the grounds that it might have developed nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] , had claimed in January 1992 that Pakistan could manufacture two nuclear weapons [ see p. 38726 ] , anticipating a controversial admission by Pakistan 's Foreign Affairs Secretary , Shahryar Khan , who suggested that Pakistan had the expertise to assemble one nuclear device [ see pp. 38762-63 ] .
2 Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa .
3 But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology .
4 How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ?
5 If Britain had suggested something like this several years earlier , it might have found some support within the Six , but by 1957 they had already passed far beyond that point .
6 To another it might have seemed utter confusion , but Chen had been born here .
7 Mark you , it might have worked both ways .
8 According to Greg McLatchie , director of the National Sports Medicine Institute at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , and consultant surgeon at the Hartlepool General Hospital , it might have worked either way .
9 If you had knitted the ribbed welt , it might have knitted 300 rows in the same amount of time .
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