Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In the last chapter we introduced the free-rider problem when discussing why bribes and compensation for externalities might not occur .
2 In an accident to a private , club or general aviation aircraft the number of investigators might not exceed just one operational and one engineering investigator , with a pathologist in the case of fatalities ; but the general process is broadly the same .
3 At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog .
4 Having slipped in this normative bias , Plekhanov goes on to consider whether a series of accidents might not change the course of history .
5 An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on .
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