Example sentences of "might [adv] have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , he says , County 's rapid growth might not have caused problems had the company 's management — and he does not absolve himself from blame — had more depth . |
| 2 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 3 | ‘ It occurred to me that you might not have seen Madeira before , ’ he said . |
| 4 | For the same money y they will also tell you of any enquiry in your area , because somebody might not have mentioned favours , but anybody they know and it 's a photographer here as well because they 're fundamentally photographers , erm they will tell you everybody they know who 's going to have er a wedding coming up and then you can write to them . |
| 5 | This happened rather often , and if the inhabitants of Oswaldston had not mostly been shut up in front of their televisions at this time of day , it might already have given rise to some talk . |
| 6 | If you looked at it long enough , it might just have appeared disc-shaped . |
| 7 | It might just have eluded leg stump , but the lbw decision was given . |
| 8 | He might just have worked things out to his own convenience . |
| 9 | Clovis and the Franks might easily have become arian . |
| 10 | Therefore , one can not claim that there was any potential for real dependence , although Leapor might easily have exchanged flattery for profit in the circumstances . |
| 11 | She knew the geography of the place ; she might easily have followed Newley down to Miller 's End . |
| 12 | Sister Becky might once have shown promise , but she turned out too left-wing . |
| 13 | Mrs Janet Postance , Landscore 's head , carries about with her a cardboard box which might once have held apples , now replaced with documents relating to the national curriculum , the Devon Education Authority curriculum and her own school curriculum . |
| 14 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |
| 15 | If he had not tried to cancel it ( and so murdered Macduff 's family ) , Macduff might not have killed him ; if he had not killed Duncan , he might conceivably have become king some other way . |
| 16 | If Jack had just returned in pristine health from a month at a health farm he might still have had trouble in coping with two of his partners . |
| 17 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 18 | Elsewhere in the Black Country in 1741 , William Hutton might also have seen women at the family forges making chains , nuts , bolts and screws , though these were much less populated trades than was nail making . |
| 19 | It might also have included woodland in which , again , the peasants could not graze their animals , but which the manorial lord would have used exclusively for his own purposes , including hunting . |
| 20 | The expression , ‘ Up Sauchie , doon Buchie , and alang Argyle ’ , which referred to nocturnal activities that ran parallel to the day-time ambience of these great Clydeside boulevards , might also have included Blythswood Square , once home of the infamous poisoner Madaleine Smith , and latterly , numerous other ladies with hearts of loose change and the instincts of a blushing tarantula . |
| 21 | Their heavy-handed approach might also have deterred Madame Vassoir — if there was such a person — from co-operating , whereas Charlotte was uniquely well placed as Beatrix 's niece and Samantha 's aunt to appeal to her on behalf of the whole family . |
| 22 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 23 | He might also have performed funerals , but not necessarily so . |
| 24 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 25 | Might even have felt displeasure at the prospect . |
| 26 | I still regret that Jardine was do unbending towards me ; we might even have become friends . |
| 27 | Apart from the traffic implications in grid-locking the roads of Caerphilly , up Manor way , it might even have had repercussions for the hon. Gentleman 's constituents . |
| 28 | Miss Macdonald , I thought , would probably know about Andrew Stavanger 's dentist — she might well have made appointments for him in the past . |
| 29 | Let it not be forgotten that in the years leading to the war the Tories were so scared of Russia that they missed the chance to establish a partnership which might well have prevented war . |
| 30 | This prospect was seen as likely to destabilize the Alliance , because Arab members might well have had difficulty in explaining to their constituencies what amounted to an alliance with Israel against a fellow Arab state , Iraq . |