Example sentences of "might [not/n't] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Weir told McCormack : ‘ It is only due to the fact a young boy saw what you did and , with some little risk to himself , removed the trolleys that an accident which might or might not have been serious , was avoided . ’ |
| 2 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 3 | With a painter father and a musician mother , it might not have been easy to decide in which artistic direction to steer the young Sylvestra . |
| 4 | The decision , made six months ago , to uproot herself from England and move to the Algarve might not have been easy , but it had been the right one . |
| 5 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 6 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 7 | The electoral unpopularity of Tariff Reform might not have been decisive in defeating Chamberlain 's programme had it not been for the fact that the most powerful sections of Britain 's business élite — and in particular the bankers of the City of London — agreed with the voters . |
| 8 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |
| 9 | They might not have been pleased to find the part peppered with top b' naturals — but dropping the piece from G to F removes the problem . |
| 10 | Now some councillors say that enquiry might not have been broad enough . |
| 11 | Vitor might not have been aware that she occupied the house , yet he had amassed some items of information about her . |
| 12 | These differences might be due to lower doses used insome of the studies , short measurement periods after oral ingestion that might not have been sufficient to reach effective drug concentrations , and the fact that we investigated oesophageal motility on day four of oral drug treatment . |
| 13 | The Consul-General 's agents , fresh from England , might not have been prepared to agree with him . |
| 14 | Even if he 'd been rushed straight to hospital , they might not have been able to save him . |
| 15 | Perhaps a surgeon might normally have chosen somewhere with a little more style , but a young and newly-admitted man might not have been able to afford anything better . |
| 16 | Towards the end of his life , assessing the course of events in India , Irwin did write that ‘ Though they might not have been able to put it into words ’ , the British people had realized |
| 17 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 18 | He might not have been able to dodge the water , but they 'd never pinned him down for the Instruction . |
| 19 | Observers around the track might not have been able to hear my orgasmic bellowing , but they could plainly see that a mental rivet had shaken loose inside my helmet . |
| 20 | There was no sound of a light 's being switched on in the sitting room , but we might not have been able to hear it . |
| 21 | She might not have been able to put into words the high hopes she held for her daughter but her actions spoke volumes . |
| 22 | She might not have been able to see his expression , but she could definitely see his smile — and it was n't a very nice one . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , Alice — did n't you think — you might not have been able to do your training . |
| 24 | They might not have been able to shelter from the bombs . |
| 25 | Any of them might have died prematurely , he might not have been able to earn these sums , and other misfortunes might have occurred so allowance must be made for this . |
| 26 | Without our help they might not have been able to fight off the Germans as they did . |
| 27 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 28 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |
| 29 | Held , ( 1 ) granting the application , that ( per Taylor and Farquharson L.JJ. ) , since the defendants stood to lose their liberty if the judge 's order were upheld , the court should act by analogy with the practice of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) which , by section 23(1) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , permitted the adduction of fresh evidence where justice required it ; that ( per Sir Donald Nicholls V.-C. ) under R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(2) the court retained sufficient flexibility to enable it to admit fresh evidence where justice so required ; and that , accordingly , the evidence would be admitted notwithstanding that the usual conditions for admissibility admitted might not have been satisfied ( post , pp. 223C–E , 226F–G , 227C–D ) . |
| 30 | Men and women were busy under his supervision investigating and reporting on the lives of people who might or might not have been concerned in the death of this man . |