might-have-been in English

noun
1
a past possibility that no longer applies.
fretting about might-have-beens won't get us anywhere

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1. He might have been a priest.

2. They might have been water buffalo.

3. Harriet, as might have been expected, behaved admirably.

4. Perhaps destitution might have been preferable to this.

5. She might have been sent by the enemy.

6. It was terrifying. We might have been killed.

7. Shifting sands might have been a more apt title!

8. These might have been adaptations to support wing feathers.

9. That might have been forgivable while Maurice was alive.

10. There might have been an infringement of the rules.

11. One thought it might have been a senior prank.

12. Confusingly, a car bought here might have been registered elsewhere.

13. If I hadn't, it might have been years or never.

14. The money might have been used to more beneficial ends.

15. She was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing.

16. He might have been attached in some way to tote.

17. If you'd stayed at Exeter, you might have been master builder.

18. Was it possible that his death might have been not accidental?

19. Unsub's stressor might have been a rape that never got reported.

20. He might have been, like Gandhi, an apostle of passive resistance.

21. It might have been a physical affliction, such as poor eyesight.

22. A pirate who might have been a Susan in his Dreams.

23. So I' m afraid she might have been kidnapped or something?

24. Franco gave them a look which might have been faintly disapproving.

25. These conditions might have been the effect of the Little Ice Age.

26. He might have been a monster ready to make off with me.

27. You can imagine that the man might have been uncomfortable in crowds.

28. Historically, CMOS designs operated at supply voltages much larger than their threshold voltages (Vdd might have been 5 V, and Vth for both NMOS and PMOS might have been 700 mV).

29. After all, there might have been quite a few of them as well.

30. He might have been seriously injured if it had not been for Bert.

31. Latvia and Lithuania considered that translation might have been addressed in bilateral agreements.

32. One possible disposition might have been erasure of the tapes for re - use.

33. 22 He might have been a monster ready to make off with me.

34. 19 What civil laws might have been tempered with mercy as a result?

35. All were so shabby they might have been worn by a dressy tramp.

36. At most , their forelegs grow vestigial spurs where wing membrane might have been.

37. Had he broken away more decisively earlier, the outcome might have been different.

38. His lengthy absence from work fuelled rumours that he might have been sacked.

39. He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain.

40. As a consequence it might have been present in the putative progenitors of mitochondria.

41. Boom town is a good motion picture that might have been a great one

42. In the past, we might have been accustomed to speaking harshly and acting unkindly.

43. Of course, Moses might have been going senile and got a bit mixed up.

44. His left jab might have been the cleanest scoring punch of the entire championships.

45. Eventually, Charles apparently conquered his physical infirmity, which might have been caused by rickets.

46. Tigress might have been a termagant, but without her what home could he have?

47. You mean, it might have been made to look like a thief s handiwork?

48. He might have been murdered by a former client or someone harbouring a grudge.

49. Might have been the other way around: Stalin acting as a Svengali on Lenin.

50. It is also a matter of debate as to where Khaba might have been buried.