Example sentences of "might have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 2 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 3 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 4 | Oh that 's er , I would say about nineteen forty roughly I 'd say about nineteen forty that came in , might have been before that . |
| 5 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 6 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 7 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 8 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 9 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 10 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |