Example sentences of "might [adv] not have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture also says forcibly some other pieces of information which we might perhaps not have guessed : that Portugal and Haiti are very poor countries , and that Trinidad is a very wealthy country , in relative terms . |
| 2 | Today she was here , lost in the beauty of the music of love , and Dr Rafaelo might well not have existed . |
| 3 | Thus , pesfull is placed in the group of suffix errors , because a pupil might well not have recognised that the word was peace + ful . |
| 4 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 5 | It lends the infinitive event , in contrast with the -ing form , an aura of " iffiness " which brings to mind the possibility that this event might well not have occurred . |
| 6 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 7 | AIDS is an issue which has enabled people to talk to one another and also think about issues which they might otherwise not have thought about — specifically about death at an early age . |
| 8 | In general , higher expectations of transnational firms for business services and a better-educated workforce may provoke the state into public spending that might otherwise not have taken place . |