Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the things you might 've seen from the corporate briefings is you 've got the budget figure and a forecast figure . |
| 2 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 3 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 4 | A leader with more authority might have brushed off the so-called ‘ desk-drawer affair ’ . |
| 5 | Just once , as the waves came up over her feet , she hesitated and gave a short gasp , as anyone might have done at the sudden cold . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're there or thereabouts now and even though we might have lost by the odd goal , we 're still bubbling . |
| 7 | She halfexpected to find Griselda 's body , guessing that it might have met with the same fate as Melusina . |
| 8 | Their ‘ look ’ changes almost imperceptibly ; between 1975 and 1985 for instance , a major style point can be seen in the daywear of the young ( 24-year-old ) yah female : in 1975 her swanlike neck might have risen from the neat collar of a Jaeger shirt with single strand of pearls and a scarf tied as cravat in attendance . |
| 9 | Cottle might have remained in the Foreign Office as a Balkan expert . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's possible that she might have gone to the young agricultural student — Farrel — who was here recently . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On days when he was particularly active , other items of news which might have appeared in the ten-minute English language bulletins were squeezed out of those in the Zambian languages . |
| 13 | From the outset d'Indy 's editorial colleague Charles Malherbe , in his collation of sources , had ensured that , whatever might have appeared in the main texts , the appendices to each volume contained nothing untoward . |
| 14 | Any man who had to endure what you endured might have reacted in the same way ’ ( our emphasis ) . |
| 15 | Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . |
| 16 | Repairs to the existing masonry were carried out in matching brickwork and the purpose-made joinery of new windows and external doors has been retained in its natural colour under a clear sealant , rather than being painted , which might have detracted from the mellow textures of the renovated building ( Plate 51 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | While he clearly believed what he was saying , and while his image might have faded from the general consciousness , Vitor d'Arcos was too commanding , too vital , too much the male sexual animal to ever be considered ordinary . |
| 20 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |
| 21 | That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) . |
| 22 | Today , we 're concentrating on the videos you might have bought in the last 12 months . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Predictably the latter stages were nervous and tense for Luton and the visitors might have levelled in the 73rd minute . |
| 25 | They might have got on the wrong side of the man in black , but the Comrades made an awful lot of friends . |
| 26 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |
| 27 | The opposition groups , ranging from social democrats and liberals to Christians , nationalists and anarchists , had been given permission by the Moscow city council and the USSR Council of Ministers to march after the official parade organized by the trade unions , apparently to pre-empt the holding of a larger unofficial demonstration which might have clashed with the official parade . |
| 28 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 29 | In leaner years , the branch might have folded without the hard work put in by Sam Parker , and the award of this certificate will be applauded by all who know him . |
| 30 | In effect , its tight-money policy is intended to bring about a shift in the domestic economy that might have happened in the early 1980s but which kept being postponed . |