Example sentences of "[pron] may [not/n't] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assertions from pupils about what teachers call them may not always be believed by sceptical readers . |
| 2 | Of course , yours may not necessarily be a dress . |
| 3 | ‘ I may not yet be family , but I do know enough about you to know you do n't have a stepbrother . ’ |
| 4 | I would need to revise my knowledge of patient/client confidentiality so that I may not inadvertently be in breach of proper professional conduct . |
| 5 | ‘ You forget that my husband 's death has never been proved , so I may not really be a widow , ’ she said , confused . |
| 6 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 7 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 8 | Practices which may not otherwise be restrictive of competition may be abusive in a highly concentrated market since undertakings in a dominant position have to discharge the burden of proof that their dominance does not have the effect of impeding effective competition in the relevant market . |
| 9 | I would be wrong not to mention bulbs which may not always be hardy in all winter weather conditions . |
| 10 | It assumes that the interests of workers are national , rather than class interests , which may not always be best for the workers , as a class . |
| 11 | Boys appear to outnumber girls by about five to one , but it may be that girls with the problem are less overtly hyperactive , and tend to display more subtle symptoms , such as inattention , speech disorders and mood changes , which may not always be identified as hyperkinetic syndrome . |
| 12 | Make sure that you have the correct address for the interview , which may not always be the same as the company 's main address . |
| 13 | If , as is the case in most households , only one room can be spared for her , it will be greatly to everyone 's advantage if it is big enough to take her bed , wardrobe and dressing-table , and other necessary items of furniture plus two comfortable armchairs and a television set and radio , so that she can be on her own when she likes , with her favourite programmes ( which may not always be yours ) and able to entertain a friend in the privacy of her own small domain when she wants to , with familiar things around her which help her to preserve her identity and links with the past . |
| 14 | In the end , the question of whether a function is a public one is a political question which may not always be answered in the same way . |
| 15 | Our school system has its own inner logic which may not always be what we wish or proclaim , and the same goes for our methodologies . |
| 16 | In this case there was an application at the judge 's lodgings at 11 o'clock at night , a procedure which may not always be available . |
| 17 | However , the disadvantage is that the use of regression analysis seduces its users into a causality which may not always be appropriate . |
| 18 | Are you not afraid , my lord , that I shall use it upon my own occasions ? which may not always be yours ? |
| 19 | There are several stages to a comprehensive pro-active search carried out by MC , some of which may not always be applicable : |
| 20 | These refer to those aspects of beliefs , which may not currently be used in explicit argument to justify one 's own position or to criticize counter-positions , but which possess the potential to be used in future argument . |
| 21 | A problem is that mean values for fertility and survival probability decline with age , which may not necessarily be accounted for by a logarithmic transform . |
| 22 | Such investigations have tended to concentrate on linguistic traits which may not necessarily be artistically relevant , such as range of vocabulary sentence length or frequency of certain conjunctions on the principle that a writer 's genuine " thumbprint " is more likely to be found in unobtrusive habits beyond conscious artistic control . |
| 23 | Promotional and sales effort will need to find the right target ( which may Not necessarily be the buying department ) , otherwise it may be wasted . |
| 24 | Mourning and depression are not seen as overlapping through different processes ; rather , early loss or bereavement actually produces the vulnerability to psychiatric disorder ( which may not necessarily be depression ) . |
| 25 | This is not a criticism of the theories in themselves , but if discourse analysis is to incorporate them , and to demonstrate their relevance to the language learner , it will need to test their value in interpreting language which has actually occurred ; to select what is relevant from context rather than invent a few elements of it ; to account for writing as well as speech , and to account for discourse where there is no constant feedback from the receiver who may not even be present . |
| 26 | They are also of considerable assistance to your solicitors/Counsel who may not otherwise be familiar with the locus , type of machinery involved , etc . |
| 27 | In fact , they may enable some people to play who may not otherwise be able to do so . |
| 28 | The jobless executives could be on hire for as little as £50 a week to firms who may not otherwise be able to afford to devote full-time staff to improving the skills of the workforce . |
| 29 | For example , a district county council has responsibilities to : its electors and ratepayers ( who may not necessarily be the same group ) ; the county council ; central government departments ( in particular the Department of the Environment ) and Parliament ; not to mention pressure groups such as the local Chamber of commerce and local action groups . |
| 30 | a client , who may not necessarily be a KPMG audit client . |