Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was the free-standing sort that might have stood outside a country pub . |
| 3 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Had the candidate added that dismissal was actually effected by the Crown he might have risen to a second . |
| 6 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A greater use of comparison , in addition to immanent critique , might have led to a lessening of prejudice , elitism and class — and Euro-centrism . |
| 9 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
| 10 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 11 | In an attempt to find a model of the universe in which many different initial configurations could have evolved to something like the present universe , a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alan Guth , suggested that the early universe might have gone through a period of very rapid expansion . |
| 12 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 13 | Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque . |
| 14 | Without engaging in speculation , it can be said that relationships of this type might have acted as a channel for ideas and opinions and represented a means by which influence could be exerted . |
| 15 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 16 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 17 | She felt that the interview was over , and yet his stillness held her still , and the solemnity of his regard filled her with a curious sense of freedom and enlargement , as though she enjoyed the very fashion of intimacy with him that he might have shared with a man and his peer , even with the prince himself . |
| 18 | Trouble is it might have started as a bit of a joke but it 's no joke now — not for me anyway . |
| 19 | Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile . |
| 20 | Terence 's face went from being startled by his attack to astonishment , then might have cracked into a smile . |
| 21 | Instead , he gave the number he might have dialled to a colleague and said he would be there unless at home . |
| 22 | Modi 's reserve might have sprung from a desire to shield Jeanne from gossip , and perhaps a feeling of shame in front of a married man , at his own role in the affair . |
| 23 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 24 | On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves , we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape . |
| 25 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 26 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 27 | Rab said , ‘ He might have worked in a circus . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ How did ye mean , I might have worked in a circus ? ’ |
| 29 | He might have shaved for a match , thought Perdita ; the girl in the petrol station must have a skin like garlic sausage . |
| 30 | A spokeswoman for the US relief agency Care said on Nov. 12 that as many as 40 people might have died in a gunfight between guards and gunmen who ambushed a convoy of trucks heading for Baidoa north-west of Mogadishu laden with grain for starving people , forcing all but one truck to turn back . |