Example sentences of "might have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church might have magical powers but for Innocent they had no part in the legal process . |
| 2 | Petitions for English ( or Angevin , or Savoyard ) seneschals were made under Edward II , on the grounds that a Gascon might have vested interests in the politics of the duchy and would be unable to adjudicate disputes with impartiality . |
| 3 | However , although he says this , partly to emphasise that the truth of the matter is quite independent of the question whether we know it , it would seem reasonable to expect that , if there is a real truth here into which we might have rational insight , careful attention to just what is at issue will bring about convergence . |
| 4 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 5 | Local government itself was seen as being as much in need or a rolling back of its frontiers as was central government , in order that economic individualism might have greater room for action . |
| 6 | The article criticised the ‘ hopeless confusion of the post-war years ’ which had created the risk ‘ that in incompetent hands this country may go drifting on either towards a sharp crisis which might have revolutionary consequences , or to dictatorship , or perhaps worse still to gradual decline … |
| 7 | You can question other people , other people might have that knowledge and you can question and clarify and form in your mind the ideas that you need and maybe put them to the group as a group . |
| 8 | I might have that little'un . |
| 9 | He realizes that they ca n't , people ca n't be guaranteed to do this and he points out there are four different motivations that people might have that conflict with the er moral motivations . |
| 10 | However , erm , thinking that er , one day , er , you might marry erm , a prince or princess , Freud says is an , is an illusion , in the sense that er , people do sometimes marry princ princes and princesses , it could happen , it 's not very likely to happen to any particular individual who might have that wish , but it could happen . |
| 11 | But forget any notion you might have that sisterhood land secretaries ) are powerful . |
| 12 | I think I might have that piece . |
| 13 | Although , therefore , I may ( as indeed I do ) very much doubt whether the effect of the agreement , as a conditional waiver of the interest to which she was by law entitled under the judgment , was really present to the mind of the judgment creditor , still I can not deny that it might have that effect , if capable of being legally enforced . |
| 14 | The way that erm one might have effective treatment for muscle invasive bladder cancer , if one uses radiotherapy , is maintain a decent oxygen supply to the tumour and if one uses chemotherapy to deliver the blood to the tumour . |
| 15 | We have striven to avoid statements of attainment that require assessment which might have undesirable effects in the classroom , for example the use of language exercises out of context or other activities of an arid kind . |
| 16 | The DRO of the Department of Employment , a local hearing therapist or a social worker for the deaf might have useful contacts . |
| 17 | Taczek was on our books during the fifties and sixties as an informant on the Polish community — what the Polish government in exile was doing , contacts with émigrés who might have useful information and so on . ’ |
| 18 | Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles , a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences . |
| 19 | For example , we might have 10000 cattle distributed over 100 farms ; a simple random sample of 200 cattle is likely to involve most of these herds , resulting in a great deal of travelling by the investigators . |
| 20 | It should not be forgotten , moreover , that Jacobite gentlemen had non-Jacobite relatives , and a favour to the kinsman in difficulties with the law was also a favour to lairds who might have good reason to expect the politician 's help . |
| 21 | ‘ And he might have good cause to be grateful . |
| 22 | Erm I was thinking of phoning John , I do n't know if anyone else knows anyone else who might have tubular bells of the right pitches ? |
| 23 | She might have four children , but still thoroughly enjoyed that sort of thing . |
| 24 | Some donors might have great works of art which they 've lost interest in , or that belonged to their father or their grandfather . |
| 25 | You might have masochistic tendencies . ’ |
| 26 | Remembering how General Steiner had met his end in the Gestapo cellars at Prinz Albrechtstrasse , it seemed likely to Schellenberg that Himmler might have other reasons . |
| 27 | Yeah , erm of course er some some you 'd sold it to you might have other friends who you did n't have as friends . |
| 28 | As a family man , he might have other priorities in his life now but his great motivation is to prove he 's been prematurely written off . |
| 29 | But before we reached that point , we might have other problems . |
| 30 | I think the humans might have other ideas , ’ Masklin said . |