Example sentences of "it [modal v] not [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In exceptional cases , under the ‘ Parliament Act ’ procedure ( considered below , pp.98–9 ) , it may not even be necessary for the House of Lords to pass the Bill . |
| 2 | Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again . |
| 3 | The draw of central London is still very considerable , and it is doubtful that the pull of an international rail terminal itself is sufficient to significantly alter patterns of business location The Rail Link would not be sufficient to achieve this change in the image of and prospects for the Lea Valley implied by the Gateways scenario : it may not even be necessary . |
| 4 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 5 | It may not just be because of the reactions girls fear from their parents , but also because of the mental block they themselves create , illustrated in this chapter by Joanne . |
| 6 | It may not yet be the FBI but , just as in the movies where the American flag stands behind the FBI chief 's desk , Mr Mullett has already propped the Union flag against the wall . |
| 7 | Although it may not yet be easy to detect the overall depletion of atmospheric ozone in the whole of the northern hemisphere , there is evidence which suggests that Europe 's ozone layer has thinned by about 3 per cent in the past 20 years , according to research published earlier in the year . |
| 8 | It 's celebrated in the schools with er , my school children always acknowledge it , so it may not actually be celebrated within the family as such , but it 's certainly acknowledged . |
| 9 | While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code . |
| 10 | ‘ with the return of our men from the Services and the increase in the staff , necessitated by the great expansion of our new business , it may not now be so easy to keep in such intimate touch with each other . |
| 11 | At present it is also the most popular method of analysis for provenance studies in archaeology , but it may not always be so , since scientists are continually looking for new instrumental methods of obtaining a comprehensive chemical analysis of a material . |
| 12 | This is because the law accepts that it may not always be in the best interests of a patient to receive further invasive , or aggressive , treatment . |
| 13 | The significance of the decision here , given that the case concerned a child who was not terminally ill , is its recognition that it may not always be a doctor 's duty in law to preserve life , provided certain conditions are met . |
| 14 | A team has a co-ordinator ( it may not always be the same person ) who adjusts the leadership style along a spectrum , from participative to autocratic , in the light of circumstances . |
| 15 | At the local level it may not always be easy to equate a framework of locally agreed targets with the specific levels of achievement nationally . |
| 16 | Of course these headings cover more than one question and it may not always be clear to you how the interviewer is constructing the interview . |
| 17 | It may not always be possible , but consider the feasibility of holding some of the interviews at weekends or in the evenings . |
| 18 | Indeed , it may not always be easy for workers in the formal sector to tolerate the muddle and uncertainty which sometimes surrounds informal care activity . |
| 19 | It may not always be practicable to follow exactly the recommendations as written in the accident report , but that is not an acceptable reason for merely discarding them . |
| 20 | It may not always be . |
| 21 | This suggests to me that it may not always be the lack of children that causes the distress — I 'd watched them childless , enjoying life enormously — rather , it is the realisation that biologically , they will not now be parents . |
| 22 | Do n't so we use a little star on the atom , and it may not always be carbon , cos we do n't get this sort of isomerism , indeed , like compounds as well . |
| 23 | One problem highlighted in figure 4.2 is that it may not always be possible to allocate all of the costs meaningfully to a category . |
| 24 | In fact , it may not always be correct to regard such effects as ‘ dissonances ’ at all . |
| 25 | Although it may not always be possible or necessary to quantify these factors , information can and should be collected about all of them . |
| 26 | It may not always be possible to do this when a student writes an apparently nonsensical answer ; and you should try to find out if this is because the student has not studied the subject matter of the test sufficiently , or whether the lesson notes have not explained the subject adequately to the particular student . |
| 27 | This general rule holds good except in the case of degrees including English , and of the joint degrees in modern languages and business studies , where particularly heavy pressure on places means that it may not always be possible to make offers even to applicants who possess grades above the minimum . |
| 28 | As with SPRs it may not always be possible to enter a complete description of the report into LIFESPAN although it is advisable . |
| 29 | As with SPRs , it may not always be possible to enter a complete description of the report into LIFESPAN , although it is advisable . |
| 30 | It may not always be possible or appropriate to provide services to maintain a child at home . |