Example sentences of "or might [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A spokesman said yesterday : ‘ This is an important start in the Pacific Rim , which might or might not lead to further opportunities . ’ |
| 3 | Stalin kept his friend Orjonikidze warned of the moments when he might or might not move against Georgia . |
| 4 | She wanted to do that with him , yes , actually that ; she thought about it on and on and waited all week for the moment that might or might not come on Sunday morning in church when , as her cousins went first down the aisle , Tristram glanced in her direction and their eyes met and she was able to send a thought message which said to him , yes , I have n't forgotten . |
| 5 | American dowsers Terry Ross and Sig Lonegren found what they described as ‘ energy leys ’ : these were also dead straight , could be dowsed , and might or might not correspond to an actual physical ley on the ground . |
| 6 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 7 | As well therefore as the arguments er that we are familiar with about er local government and the effect that it might have or might not have on West Sussex , one particular argument is I think erm something that this committee should be very concerned about an and should be er seeking to influence the , the outcome over is that of future of structure planning and the strategic planning as a whole . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was drawn up on account of the difficulty which the negotiators at The Hague had in agreeing whether or not irregular forces in occupied territory might or might not qualify for combatant status , but its words have a wider relevance : |
| 10 | Cadfael , who could sleep or wake virtually at will , always felt the particular solemnity of the night offices , and the charged vastness of the darkened vault above , where the candlelight ebbed out and died into lofty distances that might or might not stretch into infinity . |
| 11 | The above quotations represent excerpts from the briefly stated views of particular academics to some very general questions , typically in relation to their own course ; others in the same discipline might or might not agree with them . |
| 12 | In other cases though , it becomes more difficult to pinpoint what might or might not act as a reward without very extensive knowledge of the animal 's previous experience . |