Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the only purpose of my visit been to discover what Kenya is really like I might have saved on the air fare and just bought the book . |
| 2 | Dozens of literate psychometricians might have commented on the shallowness of the books the Times usually chooses to review . |
| 3 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 6 | A weaker person might have buckled under the strain , but Healey bounced back , and it is his considerable inner strength which gives this account of his life in politics its particular charm . |
| 7 | It can identify the brief passage of an animal that might have run across the ground in front of it several hours previously . |
| 8 | Any relief Widnes might have felt at the non-appearance of the injured Meninga after half-time evaporated when Myler departed with a head wound a minute after the restart . |
| 9 | She shines , too : one never could ignore her despite the enormous charm of her victims come to seek their revenge , first in Saks 's gloomy room then in his enchanted Gauguin -esque forest , whose colours the child herself might have smeared on the walls with sticky fists . |
| 10 | If evolution had continued in that vein , the elephants and the dormice might have crossed in the middle ! |
| 11 | No matter what reservations Churchill might have entertained about the Atlantic Charter and whether or not freedom was meant to apply to colonial territories , the unworthiness of France to return to Indochina was soon to become one of Roosevelt 's fixed ideas on colonialism and an issue that would bedevil relations between all the Allied powers in Southeast Asia with the possible and ironic exception of the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | And try and personalise it , I do n't mind if you refer to any information that you might have gathered during the evening , a bit like I did with Andrew . |
| 13 | It was the free-standing sort that might have stood outside a country pub . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 15 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |
| 16 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 17 | Give me a figure , that you might have seen in an advert , when you 're drooling over BMWs and things , Maseratis . |
| 18 | However , it is believed that in the virgin planet 's oceans there evolved , by chance , complicated molecules called ‘ proteinoid globules ’ ( or ‘ proteinoid microspheres ’ ) ; alternatively , these molecules might have formed on the slopes of the primordial volcanoes and been washed , by rain , down to the seas . |
| 19 | IF ALGERNON Swinburne had been an able seaman he might have referred to the sea as ‘ the oggin ’ but certainly not as ‘ the great sweet mother ’ , which he did . |
| 20 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 21 | Whatever resentments he might feel , whatever threats he might have voiced against the star , the understudy was now totally caught up in his task , spacing the lines with total concentration , caught up in the communal will for the subterfuge to work . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 24 | Had the candidate added that dismissal was actually effected by the Crown he might have risen to a second . |
| 25 | I might have risen to the heights , |
| 26 | She might have stayed at the home for years — people do . |
| 27 | Many of the amino acids are coded by more than one triplet ( as you might have guessed from the fact that there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids ) . |
| 28 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 29 | There was no incredible bulging at the centre ; no cracks , no jagged patches where plaster might have fallen under the strain . |
| 30 | This situation might have led to a drive for better theory for public sector accounting , to sustain these ad hoc policies — but it has not . |