Example sentences of "[adv] may [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this is that suitable up-to-date information on employment , prices , etc. may not be immediately available , partly because it takes time for such data to be collated . |
| 2 | For example , the provision of emergency services locally may not be a matter of choice , although there are , no doubt , choices relating to the nature and extent of emergency cover , eg number of accident and emergency units in a given geographical area and the extent of 24 hours a day , 7 days a week cover . |
| 3 | Unfortunately natural enemies alone may not be sufficiently effective , especially in annual crops where climate or agricultural practices destroy these enemies at a critical period . |
| 4 | Reviews of school smoking prevention programmes have shown continuing success in delaying onset of smoking , but school health education alone may not be sufficient to compensate for other substantial influences on teenage smoking behaviour . |
| 5 | Instability was common in the those who were unobstructed as well as those were obstructed , and we felt that really clinical evaluation alone may not be enough to suggest who needs surgery and who does n't . |
| 6 | Similarly ( b ) alone may not be sufficient as the courts have laid down principles which effectively restrict the time for which any such covenant can run and also the geographical area it can cover . |
| 7 | Methods of service other than there listed above may not be used . |
| 8 | Quite a nice catch for him , we might think , though who was catching whom exactly may not be so easy to determine — many a man , according to a rather cynical 19th-century doctor , was ‘ bounced into marriage ’ . |
| 9 | One solution to the problem is to think of the prescribed forms of standard written English as a sort of register : a variety to be used for specific purposes ( including writing coursework essays and exam answers ) which nevertheless may not be a variety that you identify much with , by comparison with the usage of your family and friends . |
| 10 | However , if you merely ask for a repetition of the number , it still may not be clear if it is fourteen or forty . |
| 11 | But it still may not be enough . |
| 12 | Similarly , science may describe what electricity , gravity or radiation do and we can use them reliably in practical applications , but we still may not be able to describe precisely what they are . |
| 13 | Even if the seller has every intention of supplying the buyer with the 12 bottles currently in stock , it still may not be a contract for the sale of specific goods . |
| 14 | But even if the rules of set aside were changed to allow travellers to stay one the land … they still may not be welcome . |
| 15 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 16 | Medical treatment may be relatively ineffective but also may not be useless : advice on therapies , equipment and future outlook in health terms may be invaluable . |
| 17 | They also may not be prepared for a long walk to a phone . |
| 18 | Instruments in this category may be ( but equally may not be ) subject to a statutory requirement of laying before Parliament or publication or both contained in the statute conferring the power to make rules . |
| 19 | The strategy advocated here may not be the only means for achieving systematic internal verification . |
| 20 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 21 | We must always be aware of the ability of people to change the environment , either deliberately or by accident , and of the likelihood that the appearance of the landscape today may not be the same as it was half a millennium ago , when different land uses may have been appropriate . |
| 22 | You simply may not be able to afford to retire , however much you may want to . |
| 23 | Right , and you simply may not be able to switch into milk production or horticulture , because you do n't have the technological know-how , or the soil may be inappropriate , the climate may be inappropriate , right , so that 's another factor , influencing , well making er , supply quite rigid , quite inflexible in , in the short run . |
| 24 | Although accounts preparers and auditors may implicitly formulate distributions of expected outcomes in determining accounting numbers , they are notably reluctant , and indeed may not be able , to make explicit the distributions underlying their point estimate figures . |
| 25 | At present there are people who choose to display a green learner plate for a period of time after they have passed their test , but this is only optional and may lead to other coloured learner plates being sold which then may not be taken seriously . |
| 26 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 27 | If you allow the opponent to come too close , then a step forward may not be necessary but you will have to be very quick with your responses ! |
| 28 | The money you save on a hyped discount today will probably have to be passed on to the car 's next buyer as well , although discounts you negotiate privately may not be . |
| 29 | Either way you can make a sale to a customer who otherwise may not be able to buy from you or who you may not have previously considered as a prospect . |
| 30 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not be able to survive the revolutionary climate of popular anger . |