Example sentences of "might [verb] been the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What might have been the nature of the inner religious conflict ? |
| 2 | Yet portions cling to the style of days gone by , when a salt beef sandwich might have been the single meal of the day . |
| 3 | ‘ That might have been the case once , but now we produce perfectly good coaches ourselves , and I 'm concerned the incentive will disappear if administrators continue to look only to Australia . ’ |
| 4 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 5 | It might have been the stories about the blood pressure of inebriate volunteers being measured at 3am in the morning . |
| 6 | It might have been the blazing fire in the corner of this very upmarket restaurant . |
| 7 | This might have been the moment for Britain to transfer her loyalties to the European Community , but her ties with the Commonwealth and the special relationship were too strong . |
| 8 | Edward Shevardnadze , who resigned as Soviet foreign minister last December , might have been the right sort of UN leader . |
| 9 | To nobody 's surprise , they discovered extremely high levels of anaemia , diabetes , bronchial disorder and child deaths — which might have been the result of poor diet , pollution and the general mess of the Soviet economy . |
| 10 | The thought passed through her head that those two women might have been the only ones he had ever loved . |
| 11 | There was a central mark somewhere in the splurge that might have been the impression of a nipple , but he could n't be sure . |
| 12 | She might have been the Abyssinian maid , playing a dulcimer and singing of Mount Abora . |
| 13 | This might have been the case in France or West Germany ; but , as the administration rapidly found out , it was not the case in the United States . |
| 14 | While ‘ one more heave ’ might have been the right response to Labour 's 1987 defeat , ‘ it is a wholly inadequate response to our 1992 defeat , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Once , in the distance , he saw a girl who might have been the one . |
| 16 | It might have been the ward sister or the staff nurse . |
| 17 | An example of research with specific objectives might have been the measurement of the electrical conductivity of insulators like germanium . |
| 18 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 19 | Whatever might have been the prosaic reason for his initial posting to Masai District , an officer who stayed long enough and had a sufficiently striking personality could expect to become locally famous not only for his love of the Masai but also for the love they bore for him . |
| 20 | It might have been the fourth 60 on Tour this season , but his 12-under-par return was the lowest to par ever in Europe . |
| 21 | ‘ It encouraged drivers to limit their drinking because there might have been the conception that you could n't tell people not to drink at all , ’ says the DoT spokesman . |
| 22 | Ferguson will have been horrified at Jones ' claim , which might have been the after-match drinks talking rather than the pre-match ones , that Wimbledon 's players spent the days before their win over United drinking until six in the morning . |
| 23 | They suggested that it had been created by fusion within the metal and that muons from cosmic radiation might have been the catalyst . |
| 24 | Knowing that he was unquestionably going to die , and not knowing how or when , had been a strain , and the fact that it had been so much easier for him than might have been the case was a great relief . |
| 25 | Mason fears death might have been the better part , and asks Gray to contribute to the benefit on his behalf . |
| 26 | I think it might have been The Alexander . |
| 27 | T his morning , looming through a yellow haze , they might have been the eroded spires of a lost city of cathedrals , buried beneath the omnipresent sand . |
| 28 | This is that the dance might have been the only way , given apine physiology immediately before its evolutionary debut , to solve that problem . |
| 29 | This holds regardless of whether the mechanism , behavioural , chemical or otherwise , might have evolved arbitrarily or might have been the only possible one phylogenetically . |
| 30 | It might have been the scene of slaughter that brought tears to Frito 's eyes as Goblins and Wolves marauded through the camp slaying the fleeing Halflings like startled rabbits . |