Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was a job of the utmost precision , and even a large-scale blow-up might not reveal that it was not genuine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A borough might not have covered the same area as a township , and a parish might have been something completely different . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , a few years down the line , a heavily discounted car might not look quite such a good bargain . |
| 14 | The practice might not know that a need exists and may be able to help . |
| 15 | The practice might not know that a need exists and may be able to help . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The roof might not have been repaired . |
| 19 | The football might n't have been very good but it was a great time , magic . |
| 20 | He suggests therefore that perhaps the return of a third successive Conservative administration might not lead to a widening of social class inequalities . |
| 21 | The guide discusses circumstances where the rule might not apply such as regular clients , commercial clients and cases of urgency . |
| 22 | The on/off switch might not survive the experience though . |
| 23 | KPMG 's Scottish forensic partner , Robin Crawford , warned that the overall 28 per cent surge in UK fraud might not show the whole story . |
| 24 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 25 | Such a person would not himself act as a teacher ( though there was no reason why a person with teaching experience might not make , as it were , a sideways step into this area of work ) ; he would not be a " leader of teachers " , and he would certainly not be anything approaching the Head of Resources envisaged in both the Codsall and Evans models mentioned above , with a curriculum development brief . |
| 26 | The DPP statement on June 14 said that the jury in the 1976 trial might not have realised from the scientific evidence provided that the seven could have been innocently contaminated with nitroglycerine , but that " in the light of current scientific knowledge this was a real possibility , however remote " . |
| 27 | Where the record companies may be right , however , is in arguing that ending the import ban might not affect prices much anyway . |
| 28 | Family privacy was also increased by the provision of back stairs , so that the master of the house on his main stairway might not meet his ‘ last night 's faeces coming down them ’ . |
| 29 | At first sight the last category might not seem to fit the dating criteria since glass is strictly speaking amorphous rather than crystalline , but it can have a sufficiently crystalline structure for TL to be produced . |
| 30 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |