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 . |