Example sentences of "[det] [noun] may [not/n't] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sentence context , Henry is n't Scottish but he wears a … , this function may not be important . |
| 2 | If there 's been a lot of rain this route may not be possible , because the river will be too full for you to cross the stepping stones over the East Dart river at Brimpts norther wood . |
| 3 | Some risks may not be appropriate or may increase the premium unreasonably or unnecessarily . |
| 4 | This charge may not be true ; but there is no doubt that a later President , the Earl of Bridgewater , took an entrance fee of £100 from new attorneys in the reign of Charles L42 Two men , Edward More and William Hickman , offered £1 , 1,000 for the office of Receiver of the Court of Wards . |
| 5 | ‘ This basis may not be appropriate because the group incurred a loss after taxation and extraordinary items of £1,616,249 during the year ended 31 March 1992 and at that date its current liabilities exceeded its current assets by £6,870,214 and the net deficit was £679,853 . ’ |
| 6 | This staff may not be available at many medical schools . |
| 7 | ADAS says that because the test relies on germinating , growing and spraying seed under controlled conditions , some results may not be forthcoming until the new year . |
| 8 | For a system with a relatively low inertia this assumption may not be true and the rotor can stop whenever the load exceeds the motor torque . |
| 9 | While this letter may not be similar to certain ones you 've had recently , I must say that the Morrissey saga has been somewhat overplayed , do n't you think ? |
| 10 | A second limitation , at least if the joint profit maximizing ( cartel ) allocation is thought to be a likely objective of the collusion , is that this allocation may not be sustainable by threats of reversion to a Cournot-Nash equilibrium . |
| 11 | This idea may not be suitable for a real beginner , but if anyone is really enthusiastic about cake decorating it should not take long to acquire the necessary skills , enabling them to create some lovely and different effects . |
| 12 | You must be aware that such labels may not be appropriate for the whole of the period that you are studying . |
| 13 | A red telephone box in such circumstances may not be special in itself , but special to the area . |
| 14 | Under floating , the exchange rate can operate as a form of automatic adjustment to payments imbalances , although such adjustment may not be full or immediate . |
| 15 | Indeed , such communities may not be typical of communities as a whole : Romaine ( 1982 ) regards it as certain that linguistic and social factors do not often interact straightforwardly in the way Labov suggests . |
| 16 | For characters like Roderigo such contempt may not be unjust . |
| 17 | In many cases such measurements may not be available with spatial and temporal sampling frequencies that meet the demands of research programmes . |
| 18 | That moment may not be far away . |
| 19 | on the one hand the transport federation and the confederation support the demands of the railway sector at the negotiating table , and on the other hand , let us say , they also call for prudence and moderation when they realise that these demands may not be achievable , and rather than lead people over the precipice and into more strikes that will not have positive outcomes , they recommend the adoption of an approach based on increased dialogue and the moderation of demands . |
| 20 | Performance of that order behind a BMW badge could shake a few prejudices , but these high-fliers may not be available in right-hand drive form until next year because of the demand for them on the Continent . |
| 21 | Intellectual needs will have to be met , but the meeting of these needs may not be possible until other needs — physical , emotional and social — are first satisfied . |
| 22 | This may be a difficult question to answer , and indeed these techniques may not be comparable , unless one could simultaneously measure function and visualise the squamous columnar junction , which is very difficult . |
| 23 | There is another necessary condition and that is that a pitch difference must be perceptible ; it is possible to detect differences in the frequency of the vibration of a speaker 's voice by means of laboratory instruments , but these differences may not be great enough to be heard by a listener as differences in pitch . |
| 24 | Populations of these species may not be able to tolerate this type of predation because they have evolved in the absence of ground-based predators . |
| 25 | These women may not be house-proud , but they should be responsive lovers . |
| 26 | You may not agree with all she says and certainly many things may not be applicable to you — but — she sets you thinking in a refreshing way . |
| 27 | And from time to time because they will take those hard decisions , those decisions may not be popular . |
| 28 | That gamble may not be unconnected to the old England-Australia veto power , which has never been employed but still offends the newer Test nations . |
| 29 | Even your own kitchen may not be free from risks . |
| 30 | So not only is it unwise to try to group patients , in terms of syndromes , it is not even possible to group them in terms of symptoms — that is , even a set of patients all showing the same symptom may not be homogeneous even with respect to that symptom . |