Example sentences of "might or might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This responsibility might or might not involve wage labour , marriage and unpaid domestic work , although there was always some of it whatever situation they lived and worked in . |
| 2 | Section 76(2) was primarily concerned with such misconduct , but section 78 embraced circumstances which might or might not involve improper conduct on the part of the police . |
| 3 | To study this problem , the investigators have first to develop small models for a small number of key countries , and then to simulate different strategies with which they might or might not manage to cooperate . |
| 4 | How is he ever otherwise to be able to contemplate what Haydn 's piece might sound like how gemütlich the piece might or might not beat Czerny 's pace ? |
| 5 | For the first six months , those who were further advanced towards full Marinehood had simply treated the latest Necromundan intake as juveniles , as sprats who might or might not grow into sharks . |
| 6 | To hesitate now — to leave the Eastern Group to guard against a southward march that Rennenkampf might or might not make — was to jeopardize the encirclement of Samsonov 's Second Army . |
| 7 | erm It 's not easy to give an example that 's brief , because of what I 've just said about the style , but I offer one very short passage here , which might or might not convey what I 'm attempting to say . |
| 8 | This approach seems likely to leave a ‘ grey area ’ of flows that one might or might not choose to call turbulent . |
| 9 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 10 | I really would n't know how to work in such a way that you had to consider what other people might or might not want to hear . |
| 11 | I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it . |
| 12 | A spokesman said yesterday : ‘ This is an important start in the Pacific Rim , which might or might not lead to further opportunities . ’ |
| 13 | Stalin kept his friend Orjonikidze warned of the moments when he might or might not move against Georgia . |
| 14 | The historical ruler , who might or might not have made disastrous political mistakes , gave way to the woman who might or might not have written the Casket Letters ; and scholars plunged into the absorbing task of deciding whether letters whose originals had not been seen since 1584 , and whose texts had been translated from French into Scots and then back into French , were forgeries or not . |
| 15 | The historical ruler , who might or might not have made disastrous political mistakes , gave way to the woman who might or might not have written the Casket Letters ; and scholars plunged into the absorbing task of deciding whether letters whose originals had not been seen since 1584 , and whose texts had been translated from French into Scots and then back into French , were forgeries or not . |
| 16 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 17 | Any body found within the boundaries of the City is mine , regardless of where they might or might not have been killed . |
| 18 | The aim was to confine attention to people who had frequent contact with the dementia sufferer , rather than interviewing all nearest relatives , who might or might not have contact with him or her . |
| 19 | These alliances were similar to the games of dice much favoured at the time : the marriages might or might not be successful ; they might or might not have political consequences . |
| 20 | The story might or might not have been apocryphal . |
| 21 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 22 | The point was , he might or might not have sent , or taken " it " ; but so what ? |
| 23 | For my experience would have been this way no matter how other experiences might or might not have been . |
| 24 | The situation might or might not have been different had other ports come out resolutely in favour of the London men . |
| 25 | I thought you were supposed to be finding out what he was working on , not going on about what he might or might not have done with Suzanne Regan . ’ |
| 26 | The executive transporter bay was a chaos of foam and whirling shapes which might or might not have been armed troopers . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever Sara might or might not have done , I think I 'll go for a walk . ’ |
| 28 | Men and women were busy under his supervision investigating and reporting on the lives of people who might or might not have been concerned in the death of this man . |
| 29 | The characteristics chosen for this analysis were selected to illustrate any visual correspondences that the instruments might or might not have with the Mercier portrait . |
| 30 | But there is a little something I can detect in the atmosphere between those two that might or might not have something to do with the murder of Egan by Place . ’ |