Example sentences of "might have [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
| 2 | In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) . |
| 3 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 4 | For the Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory Organisation ( Lautro ) , the regulator charged with supervising life offices and their agents , one or two mishaps might have been regarded as the inevitable teething troubles of a new system . |
| 5 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 6 | This was on-the-edge black comedy that dispelled any vestige of condescension that might have been felt towards the performers . |
| 7 | The cycle might have been written for the celebrated dramatic powers of Maria Ewing . |
| 8 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 9 | The article Halfway to liberation ( Trade Wars NI 204 ) might have been written by an IMF boffin . |
| 10 | The roar might have been heard on the other side of the Tamar Bridge . |
| 11 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 12 | If I had n't done that I might have been shot in the eye and could have gone blind . |
| 13 | Unfit scrappers with a weight difference of a couple of stone can slug it out for as long as the organizers see fit and the sport can accommodate fighters who might have been barred from the more formal ring or people who want to avoid the cartels that run the official game . |
| 14 | The infant Labour Party was just building its strength , but it was not yet capable of winning seats on its own , and it might have been checkmated for a generation by a positive social policy financed from tariffs . |
| 15 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 16 | A GLASGOW bus driver said yesterday that he might have been blinded during an attack by a drunken passenger who had broken into his cabin and assaulted him as he drove through the city centre one Saturday evening . |
| 17 | Again , she felt she was only entertaining him as he might have been entertained by a clever child . |
| 18 | Esther was treated with anti-coagulant drugs , and the doctors monitored her kidneys , which they feared might have been damaged as a complication of the toxaemia . |
| 19 | A pink-washed , one-storey , stone building nestled near to it , looking strangely out of place ; it was a prettified building , which might have been transplanted from the South of France . |
| 20 | Thus , it appeared to be a curiously odd appointment to the District as the most active and successful Tutorial Classes already existed in Northamptonshire while there were large tracts of East Anglia where , from the WEA standpoint as a Responsible Body and as joint provider of Tutorial Classes with the Cambridge Board , much valuable work might have been undertaken by a university resident tutor . |
| 21 | It is easy to Find more simple language in which the same ideas might have been expressed in a more humdrum context : delay for procrastinate , for example , or pay for remuneration . |
| 22 | The chieftains ' domain might have been delineated by the ‘ Giant 's Hedge ’ , apparently a defensive barrier constructed between the Fowey and Looe rivers . |
| 23 | He knew that when they built the Jubilee Line they had had to put in a big fan shaft here to release the air or passengers might have been blown off the platform on to the line . |
| 24 | Worried that they might have been dragged into the tanker war in the Gulf , they bought intermediate-range missiles from China in May . |
| 25 | Worried that they might have been dragged into the tanker war in the Gulf , they bought intermediate-range missiles from China in May . |
| 26 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 27 | Four , five , even six or seven reversioners might be appointed for a single place ; and , while all might have been appointed by the King initially , this queue of hopefuls stretching into the future certainly deprived him of choice when the office became vacant . |
| 28 | As a result , in each instance , the harm that might have been done to the environment was at least delayed or controlled . |
| 29 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 30 | Their case would have been vastly more plausible ; and a decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party might have been seen as a mandate for the promotion of industrial democracy in the trade unions ' model of it , and as an implicit declaration of public opinion in favour of the consequential abridgement or even abrogation of the rights of ownership . |