Example sentences of "might not [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you might not meet an elephant on the Wilpattu jungle tracks , you know that they are there when you find a tree pulled down or bull-dozed across the road . |
| 2 | Recently one bank , Mitsui Taiyo Kobe International , warned it might not satisfy the Bank of International Settlements ' capital requirements . |
| 3 | Having slipped in this normative bias , Plekhanov goes on to consider whether a series of accidents might not change the course of history . |
| 4 | But , even if the All Blacks are subconsciously tempted to relegate the Irish to an after-thought , it might not make a bit of difference . |
| 5 | Indeed , as Paul Du Noyer noted in NME , it might not make a sausage of difference to your diet but it 's guaranteed to leave a feeling of guilt in your head as you tuck into that rump steak . |
| 6 | However , the temperature today at the base of the Cytherean exosphere rarely exceeds about 300 K , which is too low for the thermal escape of very much hydrogen even over 4600 Ma , and chemical escape might not make a lot of difference . |
| 7 | Although librarians might not make the mistake of viewing selection as censorship , amongst the general public * might be difficult to make the distinction given the sensational and mischievous coverage given to some alleged library censorship in the media . |
| 8 | Julia felt she might not make the end of the week if this went on . |
| 9 | He thought she might not last a week at Anpetuwi . |
| 10 | The popular Scot might not relish the thought of another 10 months on the road , but at least he departs his home in the West of Scotland secure in the knowledge that he has overcome the chronic putting problems which at one time threatened to end his career . |
| 11 | Pictures showing unruly behaviour or empty benches might not enhance the reputation of the House . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They 've probably not read the sign , or they might not give an indicator at all . |
| 14 | If she continued to wait it was really , in a manner , that she might not add the shame of fear , of individual , personal collapse , to all the other shames . |
| 15 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 16 | There remained doubts over implementing the accord , particularly because right-wing factions in the military and the wealthy ruling oligarchy had not been party to the talks , and because hardline elements within the FMLN might not accept the dropping of a previous key demand that either the army be disbanded or its ranks be reduced and the remainder merged into those of the guerrillas . |
| 17 | ‘ I would like to think that any sort of physical abuse does n't go on any more , but this does not mean that people might not get a bucket of water over them sometimes . ’ |
| 18 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 19 | If you asked him a question you might not get an answer for a week . |
| 20 | This still might not provide an answer to the problem , if only because he might be deceived by others as well as by the stranger himself . |
| 21 | Ruggia did everything possible to take his mind off the fact that he might not have a ride at all . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls . |
| 23 | Sandy was already in the side , and I got talking to him again , Calero was struggling , and I said I might not have a bag for the Ryder Cup . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The same must be true of a situation in which the defendant pleads honest belief in consent on the ground that the victim permitted penetration although the defendant was aware that she might not understand the nature of the act . |
| 26 | A further situation might arise , however , in which the defendant alleges belief in consent on the basis of the victim 's consent to penetration but where it did not occur to him that she might not understand the nature of the act , although the risk of this was quite obvious . |
| 27 | Even for you the sun can cause premature ageing , although you might not see the damage until years later . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ We might not see the day of liberation but it will come . ’ |
| 29 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 30 | Well the problem is , you see , the devil has blinded their eyes , he had blinded the eyes of men and women so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what has actual happened , Paul tells us , i i in , in Corinthians in the first er , in Two Corinthians in chapter four , and verse four , he says , the God of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of God . |