Example sentences of "[noun pl] might have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 2 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |
| 3 | The suggestion was that his subordinates might have been running the illegal operation . |
| 4 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 5 | In some counties , the land tax was relatively lightly assessed ; in Cumberland and Westmorland , for example , landowners might have been paying less than 5 per cent of the true value of their rents . |
| 6 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |