Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible for an aircraft to have several different modes of spinning , and all of them may not have been discovered during the testing . |
| 2 | Moreover , muscles need different types of exercise ; exercise that contracts muscles but does not elongate them may not be adequate . |
| 3 | In particular we discuss two aspects of the interpretation of definite pronouns , which we call role mapping and name mapping , and suggest that either one of them may not occur in the interpretation of any particular sentence . |
| 4 | The routines suggested are guidelines : some of them may not apply to you in your current work . |
| 5 | One or both of them may not wish to cope with parenting a second time round , having not long been released from the exhaustion and limitations of childcare on their own account . |
| 6 | Assertions from pupils about what teachers call them may not always be believed by sceptical readers . |
| 7 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 8 | What pleases me may not please you , and my recommendation may disappoint you — and then what would you think ? |
| 9 | Every Home has its own way of doing things , and yours may not be run exactly along these lines . |
| 10 | Of course , yours may not necessarily be a dress . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll call you tomorrow , ’ said Lucy , then she whispered , ‘ Only I may not be able to give you a date . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I may not be screwing Lucy , ’ said Jay coldly . |
| 13 | ‘ I may not be as much with my family as I should be , but at least I am at home , ’ he reasons . |
| 14 | ‘ I may not be a wizard with sphygmomanometer , ’ said Wexford derisively , ‘ but I 'm not daft . |
| 15 | I may not sleep . |
| 16 | This time , Eleanor Thorne decided , I must think , I may not be selfish . |
| 17 | Having said all of which , I have to admit that I may not be able to vote on Thursday . |
| 18 | If I am a chemist already , wanting an overview of another subject , I may not want to read three introductory chapters . |
| 19 | It depends on circumstances which I may not enumerate |
| 20 | ‘ I may not be able to be with her . ’ |
| 21 | I may not be an intellectual but I 'm not a fool . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I may not be allowed to stay here , ’ the woman said . |
| 24 | And I may not need your services now , so you could be on a train back to Frankfurt tomorrow . ’ |
| 25 | I may not be a trained speaker , but I do have knowledge . |
| 26 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |
| 27 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |
| 28 | I may not even hook a fish , for the disturbance of retrieving a float through such shallow water , so close to the fish , would be sure to scare them . |
| 29 | Although I may not have got near to the ‘ God ’ of that particular place , those hundreds of hours spent in chapel were not wasted . |
| 30 | I may not like it . |