Example sentences of "[conj] it might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I headed back , realising that plans to combine Beinn an Dothaidh should be abandoned since the view would be remarkably similar from its summit , although it might not boast a ring pull . |
| 2 | There was still a job to do , and although it might not seem much in comparison to the past , it was all he had left . |
| 3 | The French replied that the devastation and terrorism that continued was not all the fault of ‘ dissident ’ nationalist Vietnamese or bandits and although it might not have the status of an ‘ official ’ armed struggle the results were indistinguishable . |
| 4 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 5 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |
| 6 | Yesterday , two months after the concert , the Labour-controlled council warned that it might not renew the society 's grant . |
| 7 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 8 | Five minutes , before you start it though now that it might not apply to you , you might not have control over training , and perhaps down the left hand side you put well what methods do they use and you might put the other side then you go back and suggest to your boss will you alright . |
| 9 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 10 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 11 | We were in a street , the street so wide and the houses so distant across the other side that it might not have been a street at all ; and the houses lay low with gaps between them , so that the sky filled a large part of the picture . |
| 12 | It is also true , on his view , for all this probability , that it might not have . |
| 13 | Last night 's lovemaking had changed everything for Sarella herself ; she had never guessed it could be like that , and she could n't imagine that it might not have been as earth-shattering for Marc too . |
| 14 | She feared often that it might not fill the House , but it was true and strong and she 'd been told it was pleasing . |
| 15 | These changes and realizations , he credited to his experiences with LSD though conceded that it might not work for others in the same way . |
| 16 | Mrs Whitman says now that it might not happen ‘ in six months or six years ’ . |
| 17 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 18 | And it might not prove effective . |
| 19 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 20 | ‘ But it might not come to that . |
| 21 | Which d , which works in Durham depot but it might not work in or Milton or wherever , but it works in Durham depot right , so that 's the way we 're working together now , Jane and Linda who work |
| 22 | Yeah but it might not work you see that 's a big risk for a school to take and anyway the parents would be against it . |
| 23 | This is something to bear in mind when choosing your hotel room in a Basque village : it is picturesque assuredly to have a view of the frontón from your window , but it might not seem such a good idea if they start playing when you want to go to sleep . |
| 24 | But it might not have been . |
| 25 | that my work has turned out to be medically relevant , but it might not have done , and that would n't have meant that it was useless or wasted . |
| 26 | But it might not have mattered . |
| 27 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 28 | But it might not provoke Balliol into action . |
| 29 | Depopulation from plague was a very real factor in the long term , and while it might not destroy a village immediately , it could weaken it as a social and economic unit . |
| 30 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |