Example sentences of "they might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 2 | ‘ Although , I agree , some of them might not think it very appropriate . |
| 3 | In Holland , he reported that ‘ there are so many rooms , that each prisoner is kept separate ’ ; in Switzerland felons had a room to themselves ‘ that they might not tutor one another ’ . |
| 4 | They might not avail to get Harry out of his prison , but they would make it extremely awkward for Isambard to remove him quietly from the world afterwards . |
| 5 | However , there is always the risk that they might not continue to perform as well in the future and , if there were a down-turn , the size of your pension could obviously be affected . |
| 6 | standard sort of middle class thing but the pre thin they might not think of that because people sort of quite often think of that as not being an accent . |
| 7 | ‘ They might not set up a road block , ’ said Jean , biting her lip . |
| 8 | ‘ At the end of the day , if a shop , garage or hotel does not look after its customers , they might not complain , but they may not come back . ’ |
| 9 | To take David Lewis ' example ( D. Lewis 1973 ) , ‘ if kangaroos had no tails , they would topple over ’ ; it is of course always true that they might not topple over — they might be given crutches by a grateful and tourist-conscious government . |
| 10 | All the same , they have to represent value for money , and while they might not score too highly under professional or even semi-professional scrutiny , they are certainly worth their asking price . |
| 11 | If they were lucky enough to find a skylark 's nest they might not want to spoil the countryside for all of us . |
| 12 | I mean , fair enough , I can understand why they might not want to see Mr and Mrs Mowatt . |
| 13 | possibly also they might not want to go on national television |
| 14 | One small point , if you say its like a free TSB they might not want to print it ! |
| 15 | What they might not want , of course , is trees . |
| 16 | And they might not want to do it . |
| 17 | They might not want to do it . |
| 18 | Seldom can a Committee of Inquiry have been told more firmly what they had to do , and what they might not do . |
| 19 | ‘ But if you 're so over-conscientious , does n't it ever bother you about letting others look after him , that they might not do it nearly as well as you ? ’ |
| 20 | Mrs Singh expressed her feelings that it was very important for all her children to speak Punjabi and she was afraid that they might not do this if she and Mr Singh spoke English . |
| 21 | For some reason , perhaps because they had heard it together , she equated that girl with the dead girl in her mind and thought that if bombers could actually see the people they were going to kill , see that they were young and beautiful and full of hope , they might not do what they did . |
| 22 | That 's right , 'cos they might not do it . |
| 23 | They might not do that |
| 24 | Iran expressed strong reservations about some aspects of the draft , and a number of other governments , among them China , Pakistan and several Arab countries , also hinted that they might not sign the treaty , the product of 24 years of protracted negotiations which had often been deadlocked by Cold War rivalry . |
| 25 | Socialists do n't like people choosing , for they might not choose socialism . ’ |
| 26 | They might not go all night , but er |
| 27 | Only those who held land in freehold within the purlieus might hunt the deer there , and even they might not hunt by night , or on Sunday . |
| 28 | They 've probably not read the sign , or they might not give an indicator at all . |
| 29 | threatened and awed the jurors to give a verdict for the King , and by unlawful means did surprize the county , that they might not make defence , and did use several menacing wicked speeches and actions to the jury and others , for obtaining his unjust purpose aforesaid . |
| 30 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |