Example sentences of "might [verb] been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 2 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 3 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 4 | Three , he might have been taking the piss , provoking the crowd . |
| 5 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 6 | IN THE DARK days of 1916 , what might have been called the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ was being fought only partially in the skies over the homeland . |
| 7 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |
| 8 | Two , he might have been reclaiming the flag for non-racists . |
| 9 | In 1543 , Knox joyfully recorded the effect of allowing the reading of scripture in the vernacular : ‘ Then might have been seen the Bible lying upon almost every gentleman 's table . |
| 10 | It looked as though we might have been cooking the books . |
| 11 | Members of the local Asian community ran onto the pitch to congratulate their South African hero , when they might have been supporting the Indians from the land of their ancestors . |
| 12 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
| 13 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 14 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’ |
| 16 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 17 | Wilkinson , who might have been sporting a more cheerful expression this morning but for a number of glaring misses by Eric Cantona , said : ‘ Whipping the people responsible is not the answer . |
| 18 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 19 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 20 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 21 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 22 | He might have been planning a Cooks ' Tour . |
| 23 | WHEN Raymond Leppard , prone to roar ‘ no Max Bruch ! ’ at those whose Baroque style he regarded as over fulsome , withdrew from Tuesday 's Tunnell Trust concert , the shrewdest move , perhaps , might have been to change the programme . |
| 24 | Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man . |
| 25 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 26 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 27 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |
| 28 | Said reprovingly because George looked as if he might have been following the lesson . |
| 29 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 30 | For instance , domestic violence is now seen as unacceptable , whereas until recently it might have been considered a ‘ private ’ affair . |