Example sentences of "[pron] may [not/n't] even be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Under normal circumstances , with the dog running free , you may not even be aware of where it has defecated in undergrowth . |
| 3 | With the establishment of Excavations Units , especially in the cities , the situation has changed drastically , for now that the specialists can operate as members of a team , there may not even be the need for those responsible for pottery to have to draw it all themselves . |
| 4 | Inter-State complaints are not made on behalf of an identified victim and , indeed , there may not even be such a defined person . |
| 5 | There may not even be a marked learning process based on accumulated experience . |
| 6 | Again , mathematicians are notoriously not all competent accountants ; physicists may not be interested in or fitted for involvement in industrial processes — they may not even be able to change a light bulb . |
| 7 | A further group of works and not even the relevant authorities know how many , except that it runs into hundreds of thousands are ‘ notified ’ ; that is , they may not even be lent , restored or sold within Italy , let alone exported , without the permission of the authorities . |
| 8 | They may not be significant — they may not even be there — but , if they are , the danger of overlooking them is not to be ignored in their effects on others also . |
| 9 | In exceptional cases , under the ‘ Parliament Act ’ procedure ( considered below , pp.98–9 ) , it may not even be necessary for the House of Lords to pass the Bill . |
| 10 | Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again . |
| 11 | The draw of central London is still very considerable , and it is doubtful that the pull of an international rail terminal itself is sufficient to significantly alter patterns of business location The Rail Link would not be sufficient to achieve this change in the image of and prospects for the Lea Valley implied by the Gateways scenario : it may not even be necessary . |