Example sentences of "might have [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the films Ocean might 've obtained the licence to , they chose one that could only be described as mediocre . |
| 2 | There were fears that the Liverpool boss might have to quit the game when he went into hospital last April for triple heart by-pass surgery . |
| 3 | The public fantasies of television might have destroyed the need for private ones . |
| 4 | He decided not to wipe his face , which had started to run in its usual sleepy-fruit way , because to do so might have destroyed the impression . |
| 5 | Melanie could not have supported a laughing , singing Victoria for breakfast and Uncle Philip might have struck the baby , which would have been dreadful . |
| 6 | This at least showed some foresight , since the number of beds in which Stephen might have missed a heartbeat and a vital document were legion . |
| 7 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 8 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 9 | Johnson comments , ‘ To make this way , the rock has been hewn to a level with labour that might have broken the perseverance of a Roman legion . ’ |
| 10 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 11 | Tess also felt guilty that her presence might have influenced the farmer . |
| 12 | They are questions about the procedural advantages which could be derived from the extraordinary procedure , and which might have influenced the use of trusts instead of the parallel institutions of the civil law . |
| 13 | The English might have created the form of Irish oppression , Engels wrote in 1848 , but the poverty was due to the temperament of the people . |
| 14 | There was no sign of any sort of weapon , either a firearm related to the cartridges , or the kind of heavy instrument that might have caused the injury from which the man had apparently died . |
| 15 | You might have to leave the room again . |
| 16 | A substantial injection of advertising revenue , or an increase in its cover price , might have saved the Herald , albeit as a temporary solution . |
| 17 | The establishment has taken over and the more wrong it has proved , the more it has stifled the dissent that might have saved the economy . |
| 18 | Ordinarily a ‘ deserving ’ widow might have sought the aid of various charities first , but apparently Mrs Woodward 's lack of deference made this impossible . |
| 19 | ‘ So … so you might have wanted the boat for you and her … during the next six months ? ’ |
| 20 | Shifting more of the cost of training to the private sector in this way might have posed a problem , even in a buoyant economy . |
| 21 | It was further agreed that a three-year course would be too expensive , especially as entrants might have served a part or the whole of a long apprenticeship beforehand . |
| 22 | People indeed talked privately about the waste of government money , the lack of respect for public property , and it is possible that government might have regarded a discussion of that issue alone as constructive criticism : Kufrans were not sure . |
| 23 | I guess Damien Hirst did n't go clubbing in the mid-Eighties in NY , otherwise he might have noticed a shark in a tank in artist Eric Goode 's nightclub , Area . |
| 24 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 25 | Had things been different , Julia might have become a vet or a professional horsewoman . |
| 26 | To the south , across a wasteland which might have become a park , is the House of Science . |
| 27 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 28 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 29 | If the Caucasus had been easier to control or the Khan of Khiva less suspicious , the western shore of the Caspian might have become the embarkation point for central Asia . |
| 30 | The Empire might have become the Commonwealth , but that was just a new name for the same thing as far as we were concerned . |