Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] may [not/n't] be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 2 | The Federal Environmental Office and the car manufacturer Daimler-Benz have warned separately that the car industry may not be able to meet the target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by a quarter by 2005 . |
| 3 | Wolves and hunting dogs may not be able to reach dramatically high speeds over short distances , but they can run and run . |
| 4 | Some Post Offices may not be able to accept parcels over 10kg . |
| 5 | Which means that owners who have released land under the licence system which was established in 1948 to allow land to be occupied and farmed without the owner being trapped by tenancy conditions may not be able to re-occupy it within the stated term . |
| 6 | Confronted with data of the following sort , an extract from a private diary only intended to remind the elderly writer of how she passed a day in January 1982 , the discourse analyst may not be able to proceed very far in his analysis . |
| 7 | Slightly overcrowd your tank , but not to the extremes otherwise your filtration system may not be able to cope with the extra loading placed upon it . |
| 8 | Theories of party politics may not be able to unlock the essential reality of British politics and public policy-making , but what of interest groups ? |