Example sentences of "[noun] may [not/n't] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Set-aside could be a unique opportunity for improving farmland for wild game , but unfortunately the present proposals may not be realising their full potential for gamebirds and other wildlife , ’ he added . |
| 2 | The Russians may not be coming but their wines certainly are |
| 3 | The clever Canaries may not be brimming with university honours but assistant manager John Deehan revealed : ‘ We have got a set of very intelligent players — and it would be naive of myself and the manager not to take their advice . ’ |
| 4 | This approach clearly has the disadvantage that subjects may not be driving in their normal manner , however , the information available to the driver can be accurately recorded on video and it is possible to have them give ratings of both subjective and estimated risk . |
| 5 | By sharing songwriting income , the songwriter is recognizing that without the help of the other band members , his or her songs may not be generating any income at all . |
| 6 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 7 | These parents may not be providing a good quality of interaction with their child and so demand a much higher level of therapeutic input . |
| 8 | You said the child may not be developing in the way the parent expects the child to develop , and I think that it 's very important for parents to check out their expectations . |
| 9 | You said the child may not be developing in the way the parent expects the child to develop , and I think that it 's very important for parents to check out their expectations . |
| 10 | Though the flush of larvae on the pasture may be an annual event , the appearance of clinical nematodiriasis is not ; thus if the flush of L3 is early the suckling lambs may not be consuming sufficient grass to acquire large numbers of L3 , and if it is late the lambs may be old enough to resist the larval challenge . |
| 11 | Ladbrokes may not be placing bets on Alison Wilding yet , but at WASL we are . |
| 12 | SEVE Ballesteros may not be taking part in golf 's World Cup in Madrid this week , but there is a player who bears an amazing resemblance to him . |
| 13 | English teachers need to be ready to give careful introductions and support when using texts which might otherwise cause offence to some groups ; for example , if a character with racist attitudes is portrayed , even though the author may not be supporting such attitudes . |
| 14 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 15 | The court may not be stipulating a particular substantive conclusion ; it may however be explicitly or implicitly ruling out certain options by the way in which it addresses and answers the preceding issues . |
| 16 | Witnesses may not be lying , or be prepared to lie , just because they desire a particular outcome . |
| 17 | ‘ Training should identify how workers try to ignore certain aspects of the work and that some young people may not be having safe sex . ’ |
| 18 | Teachers should be aware , particularly of that aspect , I think , because phonic method is very often used in schools , by which I mean that the teacher wil hold up a flash card , and on it would be a pair of letters , say , suppose for example sh the teacher will hold up a large card with sh on it and will say to the class ‘ this is shuss ’ and the children will all say shuss whenever this card is held up — that 's fine , but the dyslexic pupil may not be seeing sh in the same way that the other children are . |
| 19 | What Takashimiya may not be counting on , however , is the degree to which Americans regard art as an expression of individuality and social cachet . |
| 20 | It also questions its rival 's treatment of airline maintenance costs , implying that Airtours may not be providing enough against profits for future charges , and rebuts certain ‘ misleading ’ statements made by Airtours . |
| 21 | Cost-saving exercises may not be tackling the real problem which is the need for a structural change . |
| 22 | It should be noted , however , that several of these studies used non-tumour epithelium adjacent to colonic carcinomas and this epithelium may not be functioning normal . |
| 23 | But as family size may not be tending to zero , it is evident that income and material benefits are not the only considerations in determining family size . |
| 24 | Or Shakespeare may not be making any such point at all , despite the apparent evidence of 36 and 38 . |
| 25 | But the decay may not be spreading , in which case the damage done by intervention will not be worth it . |
| 26 | With the housing market still struggling to recover , the Bonners may not be moving in the very near future — but it 's rare for follies to come on the market , especially ones you can live in — so it may not be long before a buyer comes along keen to take up residence in Enoch 's Tower . |
| 27 | In Wales , the otter may not be recovering from declines caused by persecution and dieldrin , because of a lack of fish due to acidification . |
| 28 | Your competitors may not be doing things in the best possible way . |
| 29 | But Mr Waigel may not be listening . |