Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] not " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |
2 | The data from the recession may not be useful in managing in normal times but on the other hand may help in managing the next recession . |
3 | The recession may not yet be over but , with repossessions stable , house sales may take off again . |
4 | A male may not be aware or the possibility or a female 's alternative reading of what an object constitutes or signifies ; similarly , it may never occur to a member of a one social class that some revered object may be subject to a parodied and subversive interpretation by members of another . |
5 | Well he knows that his views may not necessarily be the majority and count in the end , but at least they 're being taken into account and being considered to be important . |
6 | And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom . |
7 | Even illustrations may not be adequate , details of pictures often being poorly represented , leaving an artist 's techniques , materials and handling to be discovered from more specialist studies . |
8 | It will even take account of the fact that some relevant objects may not be described as ‘ wooden ’ at all , but as being made of ‘ beech ’ , ‘ mahogany ’ , ‘ deal ’ or the like . |
9 | While perception of objects may not be prior to those mental apparati which absorb them ( a version of the Kantian categories ) , it does act as a firm physical constraint upon them . |
10 | As in the previous areas discussed , objects may not merely be used to refer to a given social group , but may themselves be constitutive of a certain social relation . |
11 | Within such an approach , objects may not be reducible to the workings of a central hierarchical principle , or be directly related to what are otherwise considered the most important social divisions . |
12 | Individuals from different cultures may not only contract together using different cultural assumptions , but using an entirely different legal framework . |
13 | The proportion of non-flying invertebrates may not be as high , and they are harder to sample systematically , but I am optimistic about the numbers that remain undiscovered . |
14 | For in secondary schools , so often organised in this way , a child 's experience may not be as ‘ coherent ’ ‘ broad ’ and ‘ balanced ’ as the curriculum planners imagine . |
15 | Guidelines for acute severe asthma based on hospital experience may not be an appropriate yardstick by which to judge how asthma attacks are measured in the community . |
16 | On this basis the Council issued a statement the following year on Procedure for Validation of Courses of Study , the kernel of which was the CNAA 's wish to respond differently to institutions which themselves differed widely in range of work and in experience : ‘ an application from a college where the staff for the proposed course is of known academic quality and experience may not require the same scrutiny of detail by the Council as in other cases ’ . |
17 | Some inventions may not ‘ make it ’ but others will , thereby creating new jobs and wealth and taking people off the dole queue . |
18 | The industry may be run down to 12 or 14 pits , and there may be no interest from the private sector , because long-term contracts may not be negotiated , especially in view of the amount of imported coal . |
19 | But although his selected trio — Northwich Victoria 's Liverpool-born defender Jeff Parker , Warrington Town utility man Paul McNally and Northern Ireland Under-21 midfielder Norman Kelly may not be household names , he is convinced they are the right choice . |
20 | It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas . |
21 | In the end , the failure to offer an entitlement curriculum may not be a failure of the National Curriculum , but of the market-led sections of the Reform Act . |
22 | Such attitudes may not be shared by everyone , but are accepted by most people without question . |
23 | Attitudes may not have changed as quickly as some of the tools with which we do the job but there are plenty of examples of progress which deserve credit . |
24 | A subpoena may not be issued where the proposed witness is out of the United Kingdom . |
25 | Ingleston ( 1986 ) , discussing an updated surgical dressings technique , declares that masks are not needed , while Ayton ( 1985 ) questions the use of masks even in theatre and says , ‘ if there is good ventilation , the levels of airborne contamination may not be altered whether masks are used or not ’ . ] |
26 | To extend an analogy offered by Jenkins ( 1987 ) , the snapshot/'stills ' outside the cinema may not offer a very good guide to the nature of the whole movie . |
27 | It may be true that ‘ an uncompromised normal fetus may not be harmed by intense maternal exercise in the first and second trimesters ’ . |
28 | This is , of course , no indication that strenuous aerobic exercise during pregnancy is not harmful , but an uncompromised normal fetus may not be harmed by intense maternal exercise in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy . |
29 | The right of the fetus may not be the only — or even the main — consideration in the abortion issue , as anti-abortionists insist . |
30 | If there remains an insistent voice that keeps telling you there is something ‘ wrong ’ with sleeping twelve hours a day , or reminding you of how much there is to do , turning into a vegetable may not be an effective technique , and something more explosive or cathartic may be required . |