Example sentences of "might have [verb] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 2 | He implied that a united Germany might have to wait on an end to the division of Europe . |
| 3 | Give me a figure , that you might have seen in an advert , when you 're drooling over BMWs and things , Maseratis . |
| 4 | 205. ( 1 ) ( ix ) Land includes … land of any tenure , and mines and minerals , whether or not held apart from the surface , buildings or parts of buildings ( whether the division is horizontal , vertical or made in any other way ) and other corporeal hereditaments ; also a manor , an advowson , and a rent and other incorporeal hereditament , and an easement , right , privilege , or benefit in , over , or derived from land ; but not an undivided share in land ; and " mines and minerals " include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land , and powers of working and getting the same but not an undivided share thereof ; and " manor " includes a lordship , and reputed manor or lordship ; and " hereditament " means any real property which on an intestacy occurring before the commencement of this Act might have devolved upon an heir … |
| 5 | Are there any other factors , that might have increased , for an incre might have led to an increase in world trade ? |
| 6 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 7 | Norman Pereira has drawn attention to four points between 1856 and 1861 at which , but for the tsar , forward movement might have come to an end . |
| 8 | But as America and Germany were still at peace , and the leasing of the pilots was a clear breach of the US Neutrality Act which Hitler , had he come to know of it , might have used as an excuse for sinking American ships , the news had to be kept strictly secret . |
| 9 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |