Example sentences of "we might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The d between service and working class would be much smaller , +0.09 , but we might not want to conclude that the second society displayed smaller class differentials ; after all , ten times as many service as working class children attend selective schools in the latter case , while only three times as many do in the former . |
| 2 | Similarly we might not want any hard and fast decisions about and to be made if the subsequent input is , since giss is not a valid word , unlike kiss , which differs by only one phonetic feature . |
| 3 | We might not recognize him — |
| 4 | In other words , we might not throw the baby out with the bath water , but we might keep so much water in the bath , the baby drowns . |
| 5 | ‘ I wrote the letter in February when there was a real chance we might not make it . ’ |
| 6 | But if you were to say ‘ I believe so ’ or ‘ I doubt it ’ , we might not prepare the meal but we could hardly plan to go elsewhere until we had heard from you more definitely . |
| 7 | I was rather wondering if we might not arrange a meeting . |
| 8 | And then just when we might not stop , oh my love , my virgin forest and me your virgin explorer , it is time , just like that , to stop . |
| 9 | But perhaps we might not go there again — for a while anyway . ’ |
| 10 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 11 | I had wondered if we might not try something similar . |
| 12 | I think Roger 's Roger has , we might not like it but Roger may well have a point cos he does n't ha |
| 13 | And we might not like what we see . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think we 'll always need paid carers — quite often simply a good coordination of what 's possible might solve some of the problems and we might not need to employ anyone . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a last resort but then again we might not need it but if we do |
| 16 | If we were to add those provisions to the Bill , I fear that we might not fall within the long title of the Bill . |
| 17 | Yeah well , when we go to Canada we might not come back ! |
| 18 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 19 | I 'd ask you to stay with me but we might not survive together . |
| 20 | However , we might not have made it clear that the regulations make no change in s 283 of the CA 1985 . |
| 21 | Without him we might not have won the Championship or be in a position to be playing Rangers . |
| 22 | As we are all busy people we might not have time to repeat the picture onto a larger surface . |
| 23 | Despite her efforts , ‘ the Home Office is indicating we might not have enough young women to justify the facility . ’ |
| 24 | I have also learnt much from the skills of others : without Chris Whitaker and Tess Lomax we might not have succeeded in improving the way we organise community care . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We might not have won but a tie is a whole lot better than defeat . " |
| 27 | ‘ I ask myself every hour now if we might not have held him and still drawn off well enough if I had but kept a better watch on the road to Shrewsbury . |
| 28 | ‘ People forget that if it had n't been for John , we might not have got this far . |
| 29 | Cos he said something about we might not have the flat . |
| 30 | We might not know how best to manage waiting lists , but we do n't need sociologists to complicate the basics by telling us they 're not queues . |