Example sentences of "he may [adv] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The individual sees himself as contributing to an indefinite process of inquiry by an unlimited community of inquirers , and he may well not believe that he will be around to see inquiry converge on the truth ( 5.589 , 2.652ff . ) . |
| 2 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 3 | He may simply not have had enough money to take on the extra land and the work as required for it . |
| 4 | Additionally , if the idea is extremely complex or tangential to a manager 's assigned work , he may simply not know what to do with it . |
| 5 | Then he may still not vote for his preferred alternative if there are positive net costs to voting . |
| 6 | Because of his age and of coalition games of musical-chairs , he may nonetheless not win this post for which he has both the expertise and the gravitas . |
| 7 | In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not . |