Example sentences of "might [verb] [been] different " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd ever done anything — made anything of myself more than a third-rate free-lance — it might 've been different . |
| 2 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 3 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 4 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 5 | A female employee was offensively treated by two male colleagues , but at first her claim was rejected because the industrial tribunal felt that , had she been a man , she would still have been harassed , although the specific nature of the unpleasantness might have been different . |
| 6 | The army might have been different for here was one ‘ duty ’ I thought I would enjoy , or at least understand . |
| 7 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 8 | During the Pleistocene , however , things might have been different : as the ice sheets moved further south they brought tundra conditions to latitudes as far south as Spain , and the resulting climate and environment at these lower latitudes would have been unlike anything known today because of differences in rainfall and solar incidence . |
| 9 | Had they known of it , the course of events might have been different and a tragedy averted . |
| 10 | The commentators talked about a ‘ surprise ’ win , and there were hints that if Ade had not had the misfortune that he did , the result might have been different . |
| 11 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
| 12 | People were slow to come out and if these people had made a concerted effort in the beginning it might have been different ’ . |
| 13 | But things might have been different if Brian had landed the job of England manager . |
| 14 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |
| 15 | To justify his view that there are ways in which things might have been different while at the same time avoiding voluntarism , Poulantzas argues that there are two sources of valid counterfactuals . |
| 16 | A division of labour , for example , might have been different in ways that would have affected the system of education . |
| 17 | But the reaction might have been different if Philip the Fair , rather than St Louis had been king of France at that time . |
| 18 | They are , we can as well say , certain conceivable changes in the universe , ways in which the universe might have been different . |
| 19 | To put the problem more concretely , the idea of style implies that the words on the page might have been different , or differently arranged without a corresponding difference in substance . |
| 20 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 21 | The thought that the world might have been different in a certain respect is taken to be the thought that there is a possible world which does differ from the actual world in that respect ( and probably others too ) . |
| 22 | The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court . |
| 23 | But though she had wished things might have been different , she consoled herself with the knowledge that it could come to nothing . |
| 24 | It might have been different had Charlotte been able to claim any success for her American trip . |
| 25 | History might have been different if Cleopatra 's nose had been longer or Napoleon had been taller . |
| 26 | The result might have been different if there had been a notice attached to the goods making it clear that these goods had nothing to do with the defendant 's business as a dealer in second-hand goods but had come from his home and that the sale of the goods was to be a private transaction . |
| 27 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |
| 28 | Obscurely , she felt that if only she had known before things might have been different , but then common sense told her that yes , things might have been different : probably they would have been worse . |
| 29 | Obscurely , she felt that if only she had known before things might have been different , but then common sense told her that yes , things might have been different : probably they would have been worse . |
| 30 | ‘ It might have been different , might n't it ? ’ |