Example sentences of "may not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 2 | ‘ We may not all have been through the war together , ’ he told me , ‘ but we 're all Conservative MPs and want to stay that way . ’ |
| 3 | The statistical techniques of time series analysis ( autocorrelation functions and power spectra ) enabled at least three low frequency components of lymph-node movement to be recognised , though they may not all be active at the same time . |
| 4 | As many parts of the brain contain cells of varying size , which may not all be involved in the same functions , biases of this sort may determine which functions are most strongly associated with unit activity . |
| 5 | A number of possible causes have been advanced to explain stratospheric O 3 reductions following large volcanic eruptions ( although these may not all apply to the tropics ) . |
| 6 | They may not all be required in every report you write , but you must be familiar with their functions . |
| 7 | I know you may not all be able to see it but reasonably clear . |
| 8 | We may not all want to be ‘ artists ’ , producing and performing work , but arts events can provide another accessible route for looking at the world in relation to disabled people . |
| 9 | Hence those segregated may not all suffer from dementia . |
| 10 | And whether they 're all compound , they may not all be compound . |
| 11 | Depending on the variety of sounds you had included in your check list , they may or they may not all be the same . |
| 12 | The longer term consequences of mass return , hitherto under-explored , may not all be negative . |
| 13 | Dipolar groups in a polymer coil may not all be able to relax at the same speed because of the variable steric restrictions they may experience , imposed by their environment . |
| 14 | But it looks as if it may not all be called . |
| 15 | We can not all , as it already been emphasised by the last speaker we may not all be able to do the same things we have not all got the same gifts or the same responsibilities er within the church but you all have the same responsibilities in this light of God . |
| 16 | My willpower may not may not strong enough for me to do it for long , but , I 've actually , I 've got that choice , to choose to do it , it 's something I do . |
| 17 | If the parents are the client and we , as teachers , pursue the parents ' needs , wishes and aspirations , may not this obstruct and confuse the working relationship we have with individual children ? |
| 18 | If so , may not this quality have a value of its own needing to be counted in when summing the value of the parts and may it not be this value ( rather than the value of the whole as a whole ) which adds to the value of the whole ? |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , the golem is already working , then Haberup ( who may not this time be in a position to claim the patent rights ) has presumably done something to annoy it , and in this case ( 10 ) may be used in the sense of an answer to the question : ( 11 ) what did Haberup do to his golem ? |
| 20 | These are often big production numbers printed in full colour , but even this may not single you out from the crowd . |