Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compromising , Theda found a piece of old blanket to place on the coverlet so that his hairs might not spread everywhere . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because clients might not have accepted his African name , he worked under the pseudonym of Peter Mackenzie . |
| 4 | But , since these paragraphs might not cover comprehensively all errors , paragraph ( h ) was added as a catch-all provision to cover any other errors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But some fans might not forgive him for leaving . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some hip-hop or heavy metal fans might not see further than the pleasure of destruction , might be real-life misogynists and miscreants . |
| 11 | This is a recognised method used for casting off but many of our readers might not know about it . |
| 12 | These deeply cut ravines might not seem too demanding , but some of them give unusual approaches to the high moorland plateaux , passing through impressive rock scenery which can offer the simple joys of scrambling , often above deep pools linked by cascades and waterfalls . |
| 13 | Yet , if Souness had been as rational during the game , Spurs might not have won their first League match in six weeks . |
| 14 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 15 | For example , an employer who , without any attempt at an individual medical assessment , inaccurately pre-judges epileptic applicants for positions as being unable to perform the job , will have treated those applicants as disabled , even though in fact their impairments might not limit their major life activities at all or only to the extent that others react adversely to them . |
| 16 | Colonial merchants might not like the English monopoly of trade , but they wanted their markets in England , so there was unlikely to be opposition to the general principles of the Acts of Trade . |
| 17 | Other courts might not agree that the rent was fair but unless there was a right of appeal , they would not be empowered to intervene . |
| 18 | Second , a large reduction in UK emissions might not create a large reduction in the pollution deposited in foreign countries . |
| 19 | The Commission stated that the principle that member states might not infringe Community law as a result of their national legislation relating to the registration of ships was recognised during the negotiation of the United Nations Convention on Conditions for the Registration of Ships 1986 . |
| 20 | THE New Zealanders might not have been unduly impressive in the early part of their tour but they have played some exhilarating football at the end , completing their final match against a club side with an emphatic victory , 44-20 , over Featherstone Rovers at Post Office Road last night . |
| 21 | In the last chapter we introduced the free-rider problem when discussing why bribes and compensation for externalities might not occur . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Interviewed last night on Channel 4 News , Mr Major also conceded that the Conservatives might not have been ‘ sensitive enough ’ to some of the concerns in Scotland . |
| 24 | Such posts might not carry a large salary , for although Henry VIII had evidently raised the wages of household officials , Elizabeth held them down in a period of rising prices . |
| 25 | Thinking about cardigans reminded me how many knitters ask me about buttonholes , so I thought a few words about bands and buttonholes might not come amiss . |
| 26 | But the AA thinks commuters might not get away with it a third time . |
| 27 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 28 | Part of their mission was to mobilize popular support for Franco , but who was to say that Falangist purists might not mobilize it against him ? |
| 29 | Erm because of a social evening er we had a raffle and a whiskey bowl I think the purists might not like the E in whiskey but that 's the way it 's been done that must be the southern way . |
| 30 | The same principle meant that in theory , too , there was no subject about which the broadcasters might not make a programme , if they judged it right . |