Example sentences of "[vb pp] may not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first worry is that proving that your contract has been broken may not be easy , particularly if you are complaining about the breach of an unwritten and rather vague term . |
| 2 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 3 | Every social worker knows that clients are likely to have multiple difficulties and that the problem presented may not be the main one . |
| 4 | ‘ Grant that what he has seen may not be a thing sent to tempt him ! ’ |
| 5 | It is difficult to stop the film , and the language used may not be simple enough . |
| 6 | Up to 15 of the 40 companies affected may not be able to function from their normal premises for the foreseeable future . |
| 7 | It is , therefore , sometimes a little difficult to keep up-to-date , for although what is found may not be in the area being researched by the local historian concerned , it may , nonetheless , have a bearing , for the style of housing suggested for one place may be typical of that formerly existing in another , ten or even a hundred miles away . |
| 8 | The Department of Health warned that the number of troops allocated may not be all forthcoming because of commitments elsewhere . |
| 9 | Amnesty is concerned that those who remain detained may not be receiving adequate medical treatment for the seriousness of their conditions and some may be close to death . |
| 10 | The costs awarded may not be the full costs incurred by the prosecutor , only such costs as are just and reasonable . |
| 11 | The new directions to be taken may not be indicated by the diagram , or be unclassifiable by present terminology anyway — but they may have something in common with what is gathered here : ambition and invention , perseverance , independence , wit . |
| 12 | These results should be treated with a little caution , as the group surveyed is not statistically representative of the total population of practitioners throughout the country , and the costs estimated may not be based on detailed analyses of time and expenses . |
| 13 | The pictures Sir Oliver has so meticulously measured and recorded may not be the most distinguished in the Royal Collection , but this volume is every bit as informative as the others in the series . |
| 14 | What Terri Hooley , Dave Sinton and Johnny Hero have discovered may not be new but it 's potentially revolutionary . |
| 15 | A person who is partially sighted may not be able to see whether you are smiling or looking bored . |
| 16 | The people who get caught and imprisoned may not be a representative picture of all criminals . |
| 17 | Similarly the range of tasks for which the device is required may not be known in the kind of detail which is available from comprehensive task descriptions but the designer will consider the extremes of what it is likely to be used for and the environment in which it will be used , for example designing a machine-tool for use in a factory has different requirements from designing a powered garden tool where the user could be wearing heavy gloves , will not be wearing safety-boots and will not receive any formal training . |
| 18 | In these cases , some of the ‘ care ’ required may not be so much nursing care as a constant or regular presence of another person who will ensure their safety . |