Example sentences of "[conj] might [not/n't] [vb infin] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 7 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 8 | The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech . |
| 9 | A spokesman said yesterday : ‘ This is an important start in the Pacific Rim , which might or might not lead to further opportunities . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Stalin kept his friend Orjonikidze warned of the moments when he might or might not move against Georgia . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This approach seems likely to leave a ‘ grey area ’ of flows that one might or might not choose to call turbulent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Anyone who imagined that precise experience would know its full intrinsic nature but they might or might not realize that this was a good experience . |
| 21 | Said Lord Templeton , and ‘ Prosecution , defence and magistracy must be able to determine whether an offence has been committed without recourse to vague or disputed recollections … which might or might not constitute consent , binding on the local authority ’ . |
| 22 | Any evidence , whether actual or a product of your subconscious , comes from you yourself and is not simply given to you by another person who might or might not know what he is talking about . |
| 23 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 24 | They were a strange breed , these killers who might or might not know their victims , but for whom the victim filled a need . |
| 25 | I have a younger brother , Huw , who might or might not put in an appearance with resident girlfriend in tow . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 29 | Any body found within the boundaries of the City is mine , regardless of where they might or might not have been killed . |
| 30 | 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 . |