Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] may [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | See-through : Try a bit harder — or you may not be able to hold up your head when your children ask what they can expect from the future . |
| 2 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 3 | In all phases of the education system , community language sessions have to be made enjoyable : such language learning is a process which has a real capacity to engage the learners even where there may not be significant material rewards . |
| 4 | Or , in an established school where they may not be using the most effective language teaching methods . |
| 5 | I do not want over-regulation or road traffic engineers simply toeing the line and following regulations as they are laid down where they may not be appropriate for their particular locality . |
| 6 | The ideas expressed may well be wide of the mark , or they may not be , but this does not really matter since the purpose of hypotheses is to stimulate more ideas , and the research to either confirm or refute them . |
| 7 | Deuchar notes that : ‘ In spontaneous speech , sentences are often difficult to delimit : they may simply be unfinished , because the knowledge of the addressee makes completion unnecessary , or they may not be discernible as units at all . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Or it may not be , but we wo n't know till we sue them . ’ |
| 9 | Firstly there may not be time or it may not be physically possible to suddenly introduce a high level operator , for example we can not put a different pilot on the flight deck when an aircraft gets into trouble . |
| 10 | If the brand name is standardised worldwide in English it may be found to have an unfavourable meaning in some countries , or it may not be pronounceable in other countries that lack certain letters of the alphabet . |
| 11 | In his Chicago lectures , for example , he described how certain passages of Notes toward the Definition of Culture had been exposed as a " mass of contradictions " and , at the end , he also made a rueful disclaimer — " I am quite aware that I have been trying to persuade , although I may not be quite sure of what " . |
| 12 | Having said all of which , I have to admit that I may not be able to vote on Thursday . |
| 13 | I have a feeling that I may not be the only language tutor who has asked herself : |
| 14 | I fear that I may not be able to take part in the debate as I intend to cause trouble for the Government over Oxleas wood , which is in my constituency and that of the hon. Member for Woolwich ( Mr. Cartwright ) , but I hope that my hon. Friend will regard my support as being with him throughout the debate . |
| 15 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |
| 16 | I have a busy schedule for the next few days , so I may not be in touch . |
| 17 | The evidence of a child who was taught by the ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ method is that at the age of 5 she is able to talk and play with normal children at a normal school and although she may not be as far ahead , the results of this method seem astounding . |
| 18 | Although you may not be able to track down the precise cause under such circumstances , it can be possible to devise a means of overcoming the problem in most cases of this type . |
| 19 | Not only are these very powerful facilities but they will enable you to draw professional graphics although you may not be an artist , and to present numerical data properly without the help of a statistician . |
| 20 | Many now realised , for the first time , that she may not be with them for that much longer . |
| 21 | She will probably welcome your offer of help with such matters as the registration of the death , notifying distant friends , putting an announcement of death in local or national newspapers if she wants this , and dealing with kindly enquiries from neighbours in a tactful way , so that they understand that she may not be feeling like having too many callers at first but will greatly appreciate their help and sympathy in a few days ' ( or weeks , ) time ; and making arrangements for the funeral and any family gathering that is to take place afterwards . |
| 22 | If you hope that you will live for the rest of your life in this place then do not choose a house with an awkward staircase that you may not be able to negotiate when you are old . |
| 23 | If you have any queries or think that you may not be obtaining your full pension entitlement , you should contact your local Social Security office as soon as possible . |
| 24 | But I fear that you may not be able to do that . |
| 25 | Iron deficiency — anaemia — sometimes causes nails to turn upwards and then flake , so you may not be getting enough iron ( found in red meat , eggs , and green veg ) . |
| 26 | To compensate us for the expense of processing your booking and for the risk that we may not be able to resell the holiday we charge a cancellation fee on the scale shown below . |
| 27 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 28 | It mean that we may not be able to rejoice in what is happening now . |
| 29 | Finally the position of the mouth of the river at all stages may not be known so that we may not be certain of which stretch of the former river we are dealing with . |
| 30 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |