Example sentences of "might [vb infin] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having settled one set of problems and delineated a pattern for higher education , had Robbins left the way open for a succession of what Eric Robinson called ‘ small cadet universities ’ — ; some of which were in fact very similar to the CATs , and others of which might see no future except in aspiring to enter the university sector ? |
| 2 | Evidence gathered from a cross section of different employers suggested that while the female-dominated nursing profession might fare no worse in the way its job performance is rated , bias is almost certain to enter the merit pay process when those ratings are translated into pay awards . |
| 3 | Dr Mohammed said this might happen no more than once or twice every year depending how often people died . |
| 4 | The requirement to " be able to show " that a firm believes on reasonable grounds that an advertisement is fair and not misleading might imply no more than that the burden of proof is on the member , but on balance it seems to imply that hard evidence should be maintained to justify a particular advertisement . |
| 5 | Those who were not hard pressed and in no immediate danger of running at a considerable loss might have no strong incentive to vote in favour of a course which threatened them with heavy losses in the immediate future . |
| 6 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |
| 7 | But when such practices occur elsewhere in the world , he feels , UK companies might have no option but to accept it and adjust . |
| 8 | One idea is that judicial review procedure should be more ‘ inquisitorial ’ and should allow the court to take a more active part in the finding of facts and the calling of evidence relevant to wider issues raised by the case but which the parties themselves might have no strong incentive to call . |
| 9 | Besides , he might have no other chance to tell them that he loved them ; Miriam , too . |
| 10 | The burgess might have no land at all in the fields ; but he had this right to graze his cattle after Lammas over any man 's lands , freely and wherever he liked . |
| 11 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 12 | But being unqualified for anything more taxing than preparing meals and cleaning rooms , it seemed I might have no alternative but to go into service . |
| 13 | I 'd like to go on living and working on Skomer but as my son is four years old I 'll soon be facing a dilemma over the need for his education and I might have no choice but to rethink our future . ’ |
| 14 | A company buying on credit and selling for cash with a rapid stock turnover , such as a supermarket , might have no financial problems with a ratio of less than 1 : 1 . |
| 15 | A company buying on credit and selling for cash with a rapid stock turnover , such as a supermarket , might have no financial problems with a ratio of less than 1 : 1 . |
| 16 | Which for all I knew might have no end |
| 17 | Supple entwinement through the living moss which for all that I knew might have no end , Image of an endless embrace |
| 18 | However , it is only one example of a more general situation — for instance one might have no temperature variations but two different solutes — and the usual name now is double diffusive convection . |
| 19 | And she said I 'm , I 'm I 'm not staying she said , I think it was New Year 's Eve , she said I 'm walking out so I might have no job , so I 've not seen her since , so Madge said she 's still there , that 's in Altrincham int it ? |
| 20 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 21 | Apparently she knew enough to tell other people not to worry , but that might mean no more than that she was trying to put a brave face on things . |
| 22 | Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s . |
| 23 | In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading . |
| 24 | However , that industrial logic , if valid , might justify no more than a contractual and competitive , arm's-length relationship between F and C. The better-off test is passed only if ownership is needed to achieve the extra value . |
| 25 | Erm so , and we will do that now but I mean it may transpire that the employer might say no to paid time off er for the people who are on days as , as well as |
| 26 | Or it might say no sale goods exchanged . |