Example sentences of "it might [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it might reasonably have been foreseen that the pregnant woman might be injured by his carelessness , it must follow that the possibility of injury on birth to the child she was carrying must equally be taken to have been reasonably foreseeable . … |
| 2 | Finally , All that Dwell Therein shows that the debate is important , not just for the effect it might ultimately have on our treatment of animals , but for what it might reveal about ourselves . |
| 3 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
| 4 | If it had faltered , it might soon have been overrun by competitors , including IBM Credit Corp . |
| 5 | It might already have occurred to you that the routine can be varied to produce different benefits . |
| 6 | This happened rather often , and if the inhabitants of Oswaldston had not mostly been shut up in front of their televisions at this time of day , it might already have given rise to some talk . |
| 7 | As Herr Nordern said , it might easily have been made in the G.D.R. , yawning as he spoke , that being a signal the whole family understood . |
| 8 | ‘ It might easily have been later . |
| 9 | It might easily have been six . |
| 10 | It might easily have been otherwise . |
| 11 | It might n't have been the class but there 's been some schoolin' there an' some refinement . |
| 12 | ‘ It might n't have been . |
| 13 | It might n't have been Derwent . |
| 14 | It might also have included woodland in which , again , the peasants could not graze their animals , but which the manorial lord would have used exclusively for his own purposes , including hunting . |
| 15 | Simply used as a marketing term , to designate a fashionable commodity , it might also have appealed to publishers , had it been available at the time , as a packaging for the wave of fiction that followed in the tracks of Eco and Calvino in the early and mid-1980s , and for which no better epithet could be found than ‘ new ’ or ‘ young ’ ( despite a number of its representatives being somewhat less than youthful ) . |
| 16 | For several reasons , it might also have been expected , and will be seen later to have been the case , that some of the younger teachers in the higher status selective schools might become allies of those in the universities beginning to press for change . |
| 17 | We see here a move away from the view that deviance is simply what people so label , to the notion that it might also have something to do with the acts that ‘ deviants ’ engage in . |
| 18 | The unlawfulness was generally to be found in the offence of unlawful assembly , but it might also have been another offence such as nuisance caused by obstruction of the highway . |
| 19 | It might also have been caused by a dry soldered joint , that is , one which can make and break with expansion when warm . |
| 20 | It might also have disturbed them to know that in such circumstances what is still a fairly new and effective lifeline for them would have been ruled out — insurance . |
| 21 | ( cut to ) It might also have a cancer killing effect . |
| 22 | It might also have an adverse effect on the reputation of the federation . |
| 23 | I expect my aunt meant well ; I guess it might just have been one of her spasmodic assumptions of authority in the family — out of character and dramatic as these assumptions usually were . |
| 24 | It might just have eluded leg stump , but the lbw decision was given . |
| 25 | It might be ready for opening , or it might just have dissolved away itself . |
| 26 | But it might just have been anxiety . |
| 27 | Looking back on it today , however , I perceive how dated it is ; but , in the 1930s it might just have excited interest , simply as illustrating one direction in which a Marxian might , in his disillusionment , turn . |
| 28 | If you looked at it long enough , it might just have appeared disc-shaped . |
| 29 | True , it would not have been seen by people in Bristol or Birmingham but it might just have struck a chord with somebody in the area where the crime was committed . |
| 30 | it might just have a bit here |