Example sentences of "i [vb mod] not be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , Eleanor Thorne decided , I must think , I may not be selfish . |
| 2 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 3 | I may not be good at long-lasting relationships , but even I can see this is not the way to become those Folks on the Hill , Darby and Joan , who used to be Jack and Jill … |
| 4 | Benjamin 's modest but handsome little portrait seems to want to relay a message to us : I may not be blue-blooded , it says , but please do n't for a minute put me down as any kind of manual labourer — I belong to the established and rising ranks of the artisan middle-class . |
| 5 | I may not be alone . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll call you tomorrow , ’ said Lucy , then she whispered , ‘ Only I may not be able to give you a date . ’ |
| 7 | Having said all of which , I have to admit that I may not be able to vote on Thursday . |
| 8 | ‘ I may not be able to be with her . ’ |
| 9 | I may not be able to stay long . ’ |
| 10 | Once up in her room , he said , ‘ I 'm afraid I may not be able to come again until next Friday . |
| 11 | Other sorts of things can constrain my actions too , of course ; I may not be able on my income to afford a Ferrari . |
| 12 | ‘ I may not be able to agree to this particular request . |
| 13 | I therefore give due notice to the Government Whips who are on duty that when we examine the bill in Committee and consider some of the things that are set out in this illustrious treaty , I may not be able to support the Government . |
| 14 | I begin by joining my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) in lending my full support to the Prime Minister in everything that he said , and in giving my full support to the motion — although I fear that my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley and I may not be able to agree on other matters , with which I shall deal later . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I may not be able to prevent Thomas becoming his stepson , but I wo n't agree to him being adopted , nor will he use his name . ’ |
| 17 | I may not be able to make you admit you want me , but I can certainly make your body admit it , and I damned well will ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ At this rate , I may not be able to behave badly to her . ’ |
| 19 | I may not be able to stomach it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I may not be able to say very much to the mother and her kids , but I sympathise with them so much because of what my own family went through , ’ he says . |
| 21 | I must not be shocked , she told herself , I must remember that Eleanor is eighty-nine years old and that they are most kind in mental hospitals , these enlightened days . |
| 22 | ‘ I should not be alive today if I had ever been guilty of complacency or carelessness , ’ he said . |
| 23 | So now that these two have offered to help me , I should not be suspicious . |
| 24 | Rather to the surprise of my new employers , since I had been so eager to work for them , I told them I should not be able to start for a fortnight ( I needed to recover , being exhausted by my burden of guilt ) . |
| 25 | I should not be able to postpone my attempt much longer . |
| 26 | I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other . |
| 27 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 28 | She leaned forward and said in a dramatic whisper : ‘ Mr Zulueta wanted what I was not prepared — what I should not be prepared to give — and I repulsed him . |
| 29 | Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest . |
| 30 | As I told you I think I have made observations which lead me to conclude that there are not only high but fertile lands on the verge of our intertropical Regions , and arguing from the Character of the Ranges here I should not be surprised to find in the more distant parts of the Continent , a Country vying with America in richness of Natural products , and I have very little doubts but that the discoveries to be made would amply repay the government any outlay it might make . |