Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] to a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Had the candidate added that dismissal was actually effected by the Crown he might have risen to a second .
3 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 .
4 A greater use of comparison , in addition to immanent critique , might have led to a lessening of prejudice , elitism and class — and Euro-centrism .
5 And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed .
6 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 .
7 Instead , he gave the number he might have dialled to a colleague and said he would be there unless at home .
8 It was a hard weather-beaten old face which might have belonged to a nobleman , a yeoman , a mariner , or a philosopher ; for there was so much of a man that you lost sight of superadded distinctions .
9 the jacket was the uniform of Britain 's 95th Rifles , though it was now so threadbare and patched that it might have belonged to a tramp .
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