Example sentences of "might have [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The DRO of the Department of Employment , a local hearing therapist or a social worker for the deaf might have useful contacts . |
| 7 | Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles , a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | She might have four children , but still thoroughly enjoyed that sort of thing . |
| 11 | You might have masochistic tendencies . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But before we reached that point , we might have other problems . |
| 16 | I think the humans might have other ideas , ’ Masklin said . |
| 17 | In Vienna , where the Duke had travelled as Britain 's ambassador to the Congress , society had greeted him with outrageous flattery , calling him ‘ le vainqueur du vainqueur du monde ’ , but Lucille guessed that Bonaparte might have other ideas of the Duke 's military stature . |
| 18 | It suggested that up to 20% of the school population might have such needs at some time in their school career ( previously around 2% of children had been legally classed as ‘ handicapped ’ ) . |
| 19 | This seems close to what Williams says , in the above quotation , that rights are to be understood as ‘ assuring expectations ’ of which animals are incapable ( which is not to deny that we might have such expectations concerning the treatment of animals ) : |
| 20 | A larger school might have separate school-rooms for boys and girls . |
| 21 | Because syntax is embedded in discourse , entirely different forms might have similar functions ( i.e. be used as equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ) ; for this reason it is sometimes difficult to specify a principled way of knowing where to stop counting particular forms as variants of a variable . |
| 22 | In a sensitive case like this , where action against foreign nationals might have diplomatic repercussions , it was wise to get the British on your side first . |
| 23 | Applicants should hold high academic qualifications in economics as their major academic discipline , and might have specialist interests in economic policy , trade , finance , development , or other areas , with particular reference to the contemporary Japanese economy . |
| 24 | The wealthier classes might have stone-built barns , which could protect their supplies , but houses built of timber and mud , and with earth floors , would be very damp , so it would be hard to protect grains both from rotting and from the depredations of rats and mice . |
| 25 | Those figures were misleading anyway : ‘ A twenty-foot wave might have fifty feet of face on it . ’ |
| 26 | So therefore if an em an employment officer visited twenty employers in a day instead of ten , er they might have two contracts instead of one . |
| 27 | I can , I might have two holidays now , two days ' holiday . |
| 28 | I think you might have better things Oh do you ? |
| 29 | If we could get to know one another better , we might have better relationships generally . |
| 30 | Perhaps it would be better to wait until , hopefully , Alison might have better prospects of a child of her own . |