Example sentences of "[ex0] might not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only time passed , and 150 years later men began to suspect there might not be any Christian slaves left , because the Midlands solicitor charged with administering the estate seemed an extremely rich man . |
| 2 | At first it seemed that the only delay was in making the cottage fit to occupy , and Coleridge wondered whether , until it was ready , there might not be some rooms to spare at Shurton Court . |
| 3 | Then she decided that there might not be enough food so she went out to buy potatoes to put in the oven to bake an hour before the guests were due , She was lonely . |
| 4 | ‘ One day there might not be , What then ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The players here are leaking a few goals and losing faith in themselves but there might not be a lot wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ If I lose concentration , there might not be a Ship for anyone , ’ it said . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean there might not be room in my head for all those brains so something has to push out ? ’ |
| 8 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |
| 9 | There might not be space for two , and I could hardly turn the other man out now . |
| 10 | There might not be money for Frederick Bissett 's salary or funds enough to supply him with badly needed back-up , but by God , oh yes , there was money for the building programme . |
| 11 | We may then want to ask whether there might not be something about the cult that reduces the likelihood of its members killing themselves . |
| 12 | " There was something I forgot to mention to you earlier , " said the Padre , who did not normally favour such a blunt approach but felt that given the state of his health there might not be any time to lose … |
| 13 | ( In the same way the traditional name for another problem , ‘ Our Knowledge of an External World ’ , enshrines a certain sort of epistemological approach , without which there might not be a problem , or at least not that problem . |
| 14 | Using my initiative again , thinking , there might not be much to be rescued here , but at least it 's a spot of organic for Dad 's favourite veg . |
| 15 | There might not be anyone around willing to come to your aid next time . ’ |
| 16 | Half an hour before Alisdair got up , she moved the porridge to the back of the fire and put a pot of water over the flames , she was roughly on time at the moment so there might not be trouble after all . |
| 17 | There 's bound to be some in there , well there might not be , but |
| 18 | Cos , there 's not , I mean there might not be any . |
| 19 | like we pop home and that early because there might not be |