Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] may [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The algorithm may not find the ’ best ’ answer . |
| 2 | in a package the unpoetic may not understand . |
| 3 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 4 | The Tribunal found , however , that no employee had ever been told that the practice could result in dismissal and the practice had continued , although management trying to impose the change may not have been aware that it continued . |
| 5 | I applaud the impartial stance of the General Medical Council , mirrored in the ‘ Alaska law , ’ which states : ‘ the Board may not base a finding of professional incompetence solely on the basis that a licensee 's practice is unconventional or experimental , in the absence of demonstrable physical harm to the patient . ’ |
| 6 | To extend an analogy offered by Jenkins ( 1987 ) , the snapshot/'stills ' outside the cinema may not offer a very good guide to the nature of the whole movie . |
| 7 | It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas . |
| 8 | For example , the foot may slip between mat modules or , because of excessive friction , the foot may not turn as it should , resulting in a twisting stress . |
| 9 | Someone in the kitchen may not say , ‘ Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you will find on the top shelf of the green cupboard . ’ |
| 10 | This second problem is more dangerous than the first because the user may not realize that information is missing . |
| 11 | The user may not enter this module until the associated package is either approved or approval is denied ( which will return the DC state to ‘ active ’ ) . |
| 12 | Hence in the 1990s the user may not gain freedom of interaction with spatial data but become a captive of a particular design and control purpose . |
| 13 | The most common failings are to rely too much on words rather than extensively labelled diagrams , to use technical terms and concepts which the user may not understand , to focus on what it is at the expense of what it does and to fail to separate the needs of the operator from the details which are needed to set up the device , to locate faults , to provide remedies and to provide routine maintenance . |
| 14 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 15 | Police say it is possible the driver may not realise an accident has happened . |
| 16 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 17 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 18 | If the management of a state asset is delegated to a private manager , a contract between the state agency and the manager must be entered into , the contents of which may be freely negotiated except that the term may not exceed ten years . |
| 19 | However that theory has to a certain extent been undermined by the ratio of this judgment which says that during employment the employee may not disclose or use his skill and knowledge to the detriment of his employer without being in breach of his duty of fidelity . |
| 20 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 21 | These features have suggested that the agent may not contain nucleic acid , which has prompted the name prion ( proteinaceous infectious particle ) . |
| 22 | The intention may not have been a scorched earth policy , but the effect on some departments was the same . |
| 23 | The Opposition may not like it , but does my right hon. Friend believe that there is a case for allowing a small part of parliamentary time for the Leader of the Opposition to be questioned ? |
| 24 | The so-called " success " rate of substitution therapy such as Antabuse for alcohol , Naltrexone for heroin and minor tranquillisers for almost anything whatever , is because the prescriber may not understand the concept of the Dry Drunk Syndrome or because of the fact that minor tranquillisers and many other psychotropic drugs are cross-addictive with all mood-altering chemicals . |
| 25 | But the chick may not remember these as three separate items ; instead , and more likely , it will adopt a different , and indeed more rational , strategy , and generalize along the lines that ‘ all objects of a certain size , irrespective of colour , are likely to taste bitter and should be avoided ’ ; that is , it would be remembering one item , not three . |
| 26 | The living may not want to talk to us but the dead await ! ’ |
| 27 | For example , Mr X gives property to Mr Z who holds it absolutely for the infant unmarried son of Mr X. That is a transfer of an asset and a settlement for the purposes of ss663 and 664 ( although the Revenue may not apply ss663 where the income is not paid to the infant ) . |
| 28 | A number of authors ( Akerlof and Yellen , 1985 ; Mankiw , 1985a ; Parkin , 1986 ) have argued that if firms have set optimum prices , a small change in the optimum may not persuade firms to change their price as the gain in profit is marginal . |
| 29 | It is important to note that solicitors practising wholly overseas may go into partnership with foreign lawyers , whether RFLs or not but unless all the foreign lawyer partners are RFLs the partnership may not practise in England and Wales . |
| 30 | The administration may not own the means of production but it controls them through bureaucratic direction . |