Example sentences of "might [not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may require consideration whether some body of men who combined official experience with legal knowledge and who were entirely independent of the Government of the day , might not enforce official law with more effectiveness than any Division of the High Court . |
| 2 | At the other end of the scale , ORBITAL might not offer immediate visual thrills , but they work as alchemists : these are sleepers at the controls . |
| 3 | ‘ The offer might not remain open . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Even with respect to the equality issue there will still only be a difference of degree ; the Conservatives might not want the income distribution to become far less equal than it is , and the Labour Party might not want complete equality of income distribution . ’ |
| 6 | You 're heading off into a grand adventure , you might not want additional baggage . " |
| 7 | Now I began to understand why he might not want unexpected visits , or gossip . |
| 8 | It 's not only the developing countries that are dependent upon agricultural exports , New Zealand , Australia , Argentina , other what you might not call developing countries , are also erm , reliant upon , is reliant upon agricultural trade . |
| 9 | Since a GIS involves the storage , and manipulation of spatial data as well as the use of a graphical display system ( 2 or 3 dimensional data display ) it is feasible that the impression conveyed by the same data used in conjunction with a different display system might be distorted and might not permit future users to comprehend the meaning that it originally communicated . |
| 10 | That might not please American generals used to secrecy , but America should agree anyway . |
| 11 | And it might not prove effective . |
| 12 | A great deal depends on what the computer was programmed to ask and the criteria for writing the programme might not prove acceptable to all Old Testament scholars . |
| 13 | If they were to appoint a knowledgeable , experienced , well-briefed David to oppose the players ' Goliath , they might not gain total victory but at least there would be a result and we could all get on with the game . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yeah but she might not know English Christmas traditional questions . |
| 16 | Instead of just getting twelve hours light twelve hours dark we get you know it might not get dark until eleven o'clock at night and it gets light at about four o'clock in the morning . |
| 17 | Others are dining , on the cautious assumption that a nine o'clock party might not provide adequate food . |
| 18 | More gaffes like that , and BA 's management might not survive intact . |
| 19 | Sir Hans Sloane employed a local artist in Jamaica , while others delayed their journeys in order to draw plants which might not survive lengthy and hazardous transport . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She says at her age , she might not have long to enjoy it . |
| 22 | MacDonaid in a speech at Elgin in December voiced his ‘ suspicion that between now and January … there was going to be a serious attempt to wangle the Constitution so that the democracy of this country might not have fair play given to them ’ . |
| 23 | Prof Wilkinson points out that the international community might not decry unilateralist intervention provided that it approves of the outcome . |
| 24 | This could easily mean that , although both we and bees see bee-orchids , in our very different ways , as bee-like , bees might not see video-screen images at all . |
| 25 | ‘ You might not see new vessels in the port , but their cargoes will be here , ’ said Mr Koornstra . |
| 26 | A brain that is processing 200 distinct echoes per second might not find surplus capacity for thinking about anything else . |
| 27 | Daily , repeated exposure might not become apparent until years later , in one or another form of damage to the nervous system . |
| 28 | This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky . |
| 29 | It was an excellent vehicle for an emerging West European voice on defence issues as distinct from a NATO position in order ( with France still outside NATO ) to establish some kind of common ground at a time when it seemed possible that the two superpowers might actually manage to reach an agreement on levels of nuclear armaments that might not take Western European interests into account . |
| 30 | But Brian Pitman , the chief executive , hinted yesterday that , despite low domestic profitability , he might not follow other banks if they decide to reintroduce charges for customers who remain in credit . |