Example sentences of "[noun] may [not/n't] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data from the recession may not be useful in managing in normal times but on the other hand may help in managing the next recession . |
| 2 | A male may not be aware or the possibility or a female 's alternative reading of what an object constitutes or signifies ; similarly , it may never occur to a member of a one social class that some revered object may be subject to a parodied and subversive interpretation by members of another . |
| 3 | Even illustrations may not be adequate , details of pictures often being poorly represented , leaving an artist 's techniques , materials and handling to be discovered from more specialist studies . |
| 4 | While perception of objects may not be prior to those mental apparati which absorb them ( a version of the Kantian categories ) , it does act as a firm physical constraint upon them . |
| 5 | Within such an approach , objects may not be reducible to the workings of a central hierarchical principle , or be directly related to what are otherwise considered the most important social divisions . |
| 6 | But , in a situation in which an arboreal habitat has led to a reliance on visual cues and a generalized body-structure and postural suppleness , even the correct mating-position may not be obvious and automatic as it is in many other animals . |
| 7 | Police say the driver may not be aware that an accident has happened . |
| 8 | The implication for memory research of the above research on road sign detection appears to be that even when objects have been initially detected by a driver and the driver 's behaviour has been appropriately modified by their presence , the driver may not be able to describe the object even very shortly afterwards . |
| 9 | The money may not be brilliant , but it is not very different to what I was on last year . |
| 10 | The spines of the African porcupines regularly encountered by lions may not be barbed . |
| 11 | But two small marmosets need much attention , and insect hunting with two babies clinging to her fur may not be easy for the mother . |
| 12 | As a result , unequal rewards may not be necessary to harness it . |
| 13 | You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you . |
| 14 | You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you . |
| 15 | However , although technology and agriculture may not be sufficient conditions for human happiness , they are certainly a necessary prerequisite , Freud argued . |
| 16 | Thus an agreement to break a contract may not be actionable . |
| 17 | The change may not be dramatic but Grace was ‘ delighted ’ . |
| 18 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 19 | These places are mentioned in the eleventh century , while the dependent settlements in the woods may not be first mentioned until the twelfth or thirteenth centuries . |
| 20 | If there 's been a lot of rain this route may not be possible , because the river will be too full for you to cross the stepping stones over the East Dart river at Brimpts norther wood . |
| 21 | Whilst the geometric values may not be absolute or unchangeable , the concepts and functions they represent provide boundary conditions on the acceptable ranges . |
| 22 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 23 | The analysis ( usually mainframe ) computer may not be compatible with their turnkey drafting machines . |
| 24 | Yeah , I realized that er , my handwriting may not be desirable , but er , pardon |
| 25 | If the rule contemplates a particularly serious form of misconduct , mere fault or negligence may not be enough to ground a breach . |
| 26 | But times have changed and chefs may not be able to get away with overcharging for simple dishes using relatively inexpensive ingredients for much longer … or perhaps they will . |
| 27 | Salience , of course , means salience for the hearer , and is therefore a relative term : those features of New York English which are salient for a Londoner may not be those which are salient for someone from Toronto . |
| 28 | Literary fiction may not be big in numbers but it will be big in promotions in preparation for two birthdays — 10 years for Black Swan in September , 12 for Picador in October . |
| 29 | For some , giving up smoking may not be easy . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this trim correction may not be correct when the model leaves the ground . |