Example sentences of "might have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 2 | The staff regarded the administration as ‘ firm but fair ’ , and most seemed to appreciate what a younger and better educated workforce might have regarded as a somewhat paternalistic attitude . |
| 3 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 4 | For example , a manager might have to deal with a staff problem , or give instructions to a subordinate about what to do next . |
| 5 | This expert might have to deal with a wide variety of issues , including the builder's/lessor 's obligations to obtain planning permission , as well as the design and construction obligations , issues which are usually left to an arbitrator or an Official Referee of the High Court . |
| 6 | If he acknowledged his title more openly he might have to behave like a count , instead of roaring around like a reckless lunatic causing accidents in his speedboat … |
| 7 | It was the free-standing sort that might have stood outside a country pub . |
| 8 | My initial perceptions of a college of further education might have begun on a lofty plane , but I was soon brought down to earth with a bump . |
| 9 | Although Toryism might have survived as a distinctive ideology , and although a Tory party with its own organisation might have continued to exist , the fact of the matter is that single-party government was established under George I and George II , and there was no swinging back and forth between Tory- and Whig-dominated administrations such as had happened under William and Anne . |
| 10 | She spoke as she might have done to a nervous child . |
| 11 | We did not collect as much objective data as we might have done with a white group . |
| 12 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |
| 13 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Had the candidate added that dismissal was actually effected by the Crown he might have risen to a second . |
| 16 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 17 | A greater use of comparison , in addition to immanent critique , might have led to a lessening of prejudice , elitism and class — and Euro-centrism . |
| 18 | Agreement on Germany and the provision of Marshall Aid without strings might have led to a different outcome . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Audit new systems : evaluate present systems to identify mistakes and hence avoid their repetition and to identify areas where a small resource input might have led to a larger benefit . |
| 21 | I know the ‘ next steps ’ , i.e. when I will be contacted and when I might have to return for a second interview . |
| 22 | The use of robots in manufacturing industry is an often-quoted example of job destruction ( or , as we might have said in a more optimistic era , job saving ) . |
| 23 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In an attempt to find a model of the universe in which many different initial configurations could have evolved to something like the present universe , a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alan Guth , suggested that the early universe might have gone through a period of very rapid expansion . |
| 26 | But Viola had reassumed all her wonted , iron-clad voluptuousness , and only her reddened eyes — had they , Greg wondered , been rubbed since she saw him coming up the path ? — suggested that she might have gone through a frightening or saddening time . |
| 27 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 28 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 29 | Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque . |
| 30 | Even mankind might have developed from a different species . |