Example sentences of "might not have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the whole block might not have been completed in its entirety before somebody moved in |
| 2 | There was , however , one point that might not have been raised . |
| 3 | This generation of new men might not have been elected but for the war but they would certainly have been trying to get elected in a general election in 1915 . |
| 4 | Er I do n't know when that was built , it might not have been built but it er it 's Victorian so it could have been built like in eighteen thirty soon fa certainly soon after eighteen thirty that would have been built . |
| 5 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 6 | The way he flushed told Jenna clearly that though he might not have been involved he certainly knew about it . |
| 7 | Any body found within the boundaries of the City is mine , regardless of where they might or might not have been killed . |
| 8 | He happens to be called " Shakespeare " , but this does not make " Shakespeare " equivalent with " the man called Shakespeare " , for he might not have been called " Shakespeare " at all . |
| 9 | No , it might not have been counting when I think of it , cos it 'd be one guide coming out . |
| 10 | I wonder also if the book might not have been packaged in a more sensible manner . |
| 11 | Audio warnings , such as ‘ distance too close ’ and ‘ excess speed ’ , tell of potentially hazardous situations which might not have been noticed . |
| 12 | Instead of saying " shirts made in 3 different sleeve lengths " which might not have been noticed by readers , the advertisement carried the headline : " Is your husband in another man 's arms ? " — a proposition hard to ignore . |
| 13 | With luck , the call might not have been monitored . |
| 14 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |
| 15 | Had he been home , Mary 's adventurous equality might not have been encouraged . |
| 16 | If the court is left in doubt as to whether the information might not have been acquired wholly or partly from the general experience gained by the employee then the employer will fail . |
| 17 | Still , it gave Mary five minutes of fame overtime which might not have been allocated otherwise . |
| 18 | Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was . |
| 19 | In the judgment , Lord Denman C.J. states that the court need not inquire what the effect of a demurrer to that plea would have been , thus hinting that if the plaintiff had then demurred , the defence might not have been found sufficient . |
| 20 | The executive transporter bay was a chaos of foam and whirling shapes which might or might not have been armed troopers . |
| 21 | Had the topic not been abortion , unambiguously a women 's issue , the correct inference might not have been drawn . |
| 22 | Presenting their greatest hits as a pension plan nest egg might not have been playing the cutting edge game but , blimey , who is ? |
| 23 | The roof might not have been repaired . |
| 24 | Though generally tight at outcrop today , these formations in the subsurface might not have been cemented if protected by early hydrocarbon migration . |
| 25 | While this language might not have been chosen under Kennedy , the advisers of the new president , Lyndon Johnson , went on to cite specific grievances against Britain which would have arisen under any president . |
| 26 | In fact we may take it from the wording of Section 2 of the Definition Order that , during the conference questions were asked about the liability of individuals to repatriation , or Section 2 might not have been included at all . |
| 27 | But the jury did not find that the boy might not have been revived had one of the others been killed to provide food for him . |
| 28 | It was n't jerky , just a little unsettling , and Maxim might not have been asking so many questions if he 'd been able to sit back and watch the countryside flow past . |
| 29 | John Aubrey records how Thomas Hobbes , the philosopher , was ‘ put into a Woollen shroud ’ at his death in 1679 , arguing that had Hobbes received the £100 per annum pension granted by Charles II in 1660 — ‘ At the Restoration , Charles II awarded him a pension of £100 a year — which , however , His Majesty forgot to pay ’ — then he might not have been buried in such a common shift . |
| 30 | Without it , modern democracy and republicanism could not have come into existence and scientific and technological progress would not have been possible ( and possibly slavery might not have been abolished ) . |