Example sentences of "they might not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot held her arms stiff as bayonets , for she knew it would be safer to keep her coat on , then they might not have to stay so long . |
| 2 | Even if he 'd been rushed straight to hospital , they might not have been able to save him . |
| 3 | The survey of 866 dentists in the dental journal The Probe , says : ‘ When dentists were asked whether they had extracted , or referred for extraction , any teeth which they might not have done before the introduction of the 1990 contract , 61 per cent said they had , while nearly 37 per cent said they had not . ’ |
| 4 | While they might not have been popular with the depot staff , the crews and passengers loved them . |
| 5 | They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took . |
| 6 | Towards the end of his life , assessing the course of events in India , Irwin did write that ‘ Though they might not have been able to put it into words ’ , the British people had realized |
| 7 | They might not have been at their best on Saturday , but until the outstanding Ruel Fox was injured they played some impressive football . |
| 8 | You can probably find things to say about how well George and Marie have gone about co-ordinating their marketing , financial and personnel activities , and you could even ask yourself whether they might not have been wiser to expand ( if that is what they still want to do ) in a different direction altogether . |
| 9 | Funny thing was , he thought to himself , as he walked back to his own house , they might not have been after me at all . |
| 10 | They might not have another booking . |
| 11 | They might not have the ready-laid personality or boys gang mentality of Shaun 's forgotten foot-and-mouth soldiers , but the Stereo MC 's could certainly fill the musical gap with their protracted athletics and Rob Birch 's geezer-good vocal patois . |
| 12 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 13 | The problem we 've got with Greenpeace they might not have so much in the way of merchandise and they just have the stickers and |
| 14 | I think I 'm rather surprised they might not have been worse . |
| 15 | They might form an array of some higher dimension , or they might not have any array-like structure at all . |
| 16 | What he wanted were answers to some of the things they might not have thought of . |
| 17 | If it had been they might not have dared penetrate it very far . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls . |
| 19 | ‘ Because they might not have come from Alain 's clothing at all and I did n't want to upset him unnecessarily . ’ |
| 20 | They might not have been pleased to find the part peppered with top b' naturals — but dropping the piece from G to F removes the problem . |
| 21 | So now he would get them for something they might not have done . |
| 22 | After further discussions with the teachers , covering attitudes , methods and topics ( ‘ If a few more people had understood what inflation meant , they might not have won the election' ) , about a quarter of the teachers remained clearly of the view that mathematics education is , and should be , politically neutral . |
| 23 | He had begun to wonder whether they might not have forgotten him entirely . |
| 24 | They might not have existed . |
| 25 | This offers students an opportunity to test their knowledge and skills in the real world , at the same time as offering employers the chance to get to grips with a problem or task that they might not have the time or resources to tackle . |
| 26 | They might not have been able to shelter from the bombs . |
| 27 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 28 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 29 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 30 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |