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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Byways of history, particularly might-have-beens , also suit the form well.
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It takes some imagination to share the contradictions, the unrealised hopes, the might-have-beens , of the past.
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Looking at the might-have-beens of stylistic variation is a way of making the elusive quality of good writing open to inspection.
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This book is not concerned, however, with might-have-beens but with the facts as they were, so far as can be told.
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We like to think about the might-have-beens .