Example sentences of "[adj] may not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are mentally alert may not find it easy or pleasant to take help from the very ones they have supported and cared for over the years . |
| 2 | What will emerge from Alpine may not have the sprint car look , nor the integral tonneau or open-to-the-elements driving position but it will have most of Laguna 's mechanicals . |
| 3 | The problem is that many shareholders and the public at large may not appreciate that the nature of the history business has changed . |
| 4 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 5 | The national data on use of services by age may indeed not truly reflect needs of individuals at different ages ; there is , after all , evidence of rationing by age , so the elderly may not get the health care they need . |
| 6 | The obligation does not extend , however , to cover all information which is given to or required by the employee while in his employment , and in particular may not cover information which is only " confidential " in the sense that an unauthorised disclosure of such information to a third party while the employment subsisted would be a clear breach of the duty of good faith . |
| 7 | We discuss evidence that these two types of mapping can be carried out separately and that , in certain circumstances , role-to-name mapping in particular may not take place at all . |
| 8 | … Therefore , although the law is the same with regard to libel on a firm or company as with regard to libel on a person , the conditions under which the particular statement can be libellous may not exist with regard to them . |
| 9 | The Santa Cruz Operation Inc may not have rushed out to embrace Unix SVR4 but it 's certainly creeping around it Indian-style . |
| 10 | The po-faced and the pious may not find that funny , but to hear him tell it and keep a straight face is a considerable feat . |