Example sentences of "[verb] that they might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 2 | Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course . |
| 3 | ‘ They may have decided that they might n't like the loss of privacy or would n't feel happy handling the money , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Iran expressed strong reservations about some aspects of the draft , and a number of other governments , among them China , Pakistan and several Arab countries , also hinted that they might not sign the treaty , the product of 24 years of protracted negotiations which had often been deadlocked by Cold War rivalry . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls . |
| 6 | When she worried that they might not know when it was lunch time , he explained that when they saw his sister come back from her ride , then they would know . |
| 7 | When I wrote to Dr Barnardo 's , I said that they might not approve of money from such a source but the secretary who answered the letter said he was an old Selwyn man and the more we could send him the better . |