Example sentences of "might [verb] [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's possible that she might have gone to the young agricultural student — Farrel — who was here recently . |
| 2 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
| 3 | With hindsight , he says , he can see the deficiencies in County 's and NatWest 's structure that might have contributed to the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 4 | Whereas in the past such external supports of the superego might have been strong enough to compensate at least in part for faulty superego development as a result of difficulties at the phallic-Oedipal stage and might have contributed to the unresolved Oedipal conflict expressing itself as a typical hysteria or obsessional neurosis , today , because such supports are in large part lacking , the outcome is not likely to be the same . |
| 5 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |
| 6 | Whereas once the working class might have looked to the middle classes for an example of probity and upright behaviour , now the middle classes looked to the working class as the custodians of vanishing tradition and folk culture . |
| 7 | By constantly changing its plans , from one type of waste disposal to another , the organization lost any claim it might have had to the scientific high ground . |
| 8 | Grainne was no longer quite sure that they were real , for the Castle seemed to her to be so brimful of lingering emotions and the resonances of the past that the footsteps might have belonged to the distant past , or the far-off future , or to a world outside Ireland altogether . |