Example sentences of "[noun] might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Compromising , Theda found a piece of old blanket to place on the coverlet so that his hairs might not spread everywhere . |
| 3 | If a haulier wished to tow other items under the terms of this policy , an additional clause is needed to clarify the extent of cover ; otherwise the insurers might not accept liability . |
| 4 | Nothing wrong with that , in principle : a company that depended more on equity might not have the nerve to do things like founding Fox Television . |
| 5 | Her school has a high proportion of ethnic minority children where I felt Balbinder might not have seemed such a problem . |
| 6 | Worried , Wilson confided in Mrs Browning that she feared Ellen might not have received her letter , the posts being so very variable , and was instructed to write again and have it sent with a reply paid , a system she was assured was possible if expensive . |
| 7 | As Oreste grew he would become more expensive to keep and Ellen might not find his maintenance so easy . |
| 8 | It was a job of the utmost precision , and even a large-scale blow-up might not reveal that it was not genuine . |
| 9 | Were they to be realised , patronage might not disappear entirely but it would wither substantially as a result of being seen as increasingly unnecessary and underhand . |
| 10 | Because clients might not have accepted his African name , he worked under the pseudonym of Peter Mackenzie . |
| 11 | Anyone who has contact with the real world knows that sometimes the management might not have confidence in the work force and the work force might not have confidence in the management . |
| 12 | The President might not want them , but sense , and democracy , required it ; so while part of the NSC was on fire with the President 's wishes , another part was turning out position papers of a hopeless and reasonable kind . |
| 13 | This is not to say that a statute might not assign the relative meaning of ‘ if X , ’ as between courts and tribunals , differently in diverse areas . |
| 14 | A borough might not have covered the same area as a township , and a parish might have been something completely different . |
| 15 | That being so , it is a gross breach of a privy councillor 's duty to attribute to the sovereign personal opinions at variance with the advice of her prime minister or , worse still , to suggest that the sovereign might not accept that advice constitutionally offered . |
| 16 | But , since these paragraphs might not cover comprehensively all errors , paragraph ( h ) was added as a catch-all provision to cover any other errors . |
| 17 | PLO chair Yassir Arafat said on Nov. 25 that the talks were at a " dead-end " and that a Palestinian delegation might not attend the eighth round . |
| 18 | At any particular moment the books might not appear to balance ( for example electrical energy input could be stored to be released as heat later , or energy taken up while forcing the deuterium into the palladium may be returned later U the deuterium leaks out and recombines in the atmosphere ) , so the relevant question was whether there was a net excess output of energy over a long period of time . |
| 19 | At the root of the mixture of emotions that Kylie felt that day was the very real feat that despite the fame and fabulous wealth that might lie ahead of her , her future might not allow her to ever again be part of as precious and close a group of friends as she was during her Neighbours days . |
| 20 | It was said that he always got the man a club did n't want to sell , but when he signed Ted Taylor from Oldham Athletic he got the man the club might not have wanted to sell . |
| 21 | However , a few years down the line , a heavily discounted car might not look quite such a good bargain . |
| 22 | The practice might not know that a need exists and may be able to help . |
| 23 | The practice might not know that a need exists and may be able to help . |
| 24 | It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar . |
| 25 | A charter party did not necessarily attest to the ownership of the goods shipped because the charterer might not have been a shipper , but merely a lessor of space . |
| 26 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 27 | The roof might not have been repaired . |
| 28 | The serious economic problems facing Britain following the slump of 1929 , and the seeming inability of any one party to offer a way out , together with the parliamentary deadlock , led many to ask whether a combination of like-minded politicians from different parties might not prove better suited to resolving Britain 's problems than any single-party government . |
| 29 | But some fans might not forgive him for leaving . |
| 30 | Now he has revealed the mistakes that led to England 's early departure from the tournament , though fans might not find themselves a lot the wiser . |