Example sentences of "might [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 2 | In his speech to the Supreme Soviet Gorbachev emphasized that while there might have been misunderstandings between him and Pavlov there were no essential differences between them . |
| 3 | Apart from the Stones ' fingerprints , there might have been others on the paper , but the forensic lab liked all their bits and pieces presented in nice , clean polythene bags . |
| 4 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 5 | Two trained and experienced businessmen in one landscaping company is unusual , and Peter suspects it might have been part of the reason for success . |
| 6 | ‘ It might have been part of the equipment those scientists dropped into the sea when they were here , ’ he suggested . |
| 7 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 8 | Sommerlad might well have added that , although such an idea might have been anathema at home , nothing prevented the colonial authorities from publishing newspapers in Tanganyika , Kenya , the Rhodesias , Sierra Leone and many of the French territories . |
| 9 | Cobalt shook his head , which might have meant he did n't know or might have been admonishment for Oliver who was still holding the bottle of wine . |
| 10 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 11 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 12 | Sometimes it doesn especially if it 's just one thing outside there , like it might have been sort of a a three X or |
| 13 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 14 | Some amendment of the 1947 Act was clearly desirable , but though there might have been agreement on this , there was no agreement on what the amendments should be . |