Example sentences of "might have been taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | His early comedies might have been taken to represent an unheard-of civility from the back of beyond . |
| 2 | The movement was not without criticism from those whose support might have been taken for granted ; Robertson Nicoll pronounced the 1894 Congress a ‘ failure ’ because ‘ it does not represent Nonconformity and it is wholly lacking in enthusiasm and initiative . ’ |
| 3 | The car is unnumbered , suggesting that its number might have been taken by a new Standard car . |
| 4 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 5 | If not twins , they might have been taken for brother and sister . |
| 6 | Dunkirk , Boulogne and Calais , through which British munitions and troops could pass in growing numbers , might have been taken at little cost during the Germans ' initial advance , now they would have to be fought for . |
| 7 | Had the attack been properly organized and coordinated , these vital heights might have been taken with little loss and the successes consolidated . |
| 8 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 9 | For a festival or a wedding feast a very similar dish , a gigot of mutton on a bed of sliced potatoes , might have been taken by Madame Escoffier senior to the village baker 's oven to cook . |
| 10 | I thought she might have been taken ill or had a fall or something . ’ |
| 11 | His eyes gleamed with what might have been taken for some inner illumination . |
| 12 | Action might have been taken two months ago . |