Example sentences of "we may not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We may not choose to come , ’ he blustered . |
| 2 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 3 | This is actually tying this up with an exam question , I was looking through some past papers to try and spot things we may not have covered in detail . |
| 4 | But it 's because we accepted the challenge of change , even though we may not have liked everything that went with it , that we 're here today . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , folks , we may not have heard our favourite songbird sing for the last couple of weeks , but it 's certainly nice to know our very own Rory can still put on one hell of a floorshow ! ’ |
| 6 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 7 | We may not have seen the last of this controversy . |
| 8 | This is disappointing for such a theoretically sensitive technique , but we found that tissue itself potently inhibits the polymerase chain reaction if not adequately purified , and despite our spiking experiment we may not have abolished sample inhibition . |
| 9 | We may not have known that they lay beneath the surface of our lives . |
| 10 | We may not have watched the Toraja dynasty ascend through a flaming village circle , but we had witnessed one of its sons , very close , leap through a flaming hoop and land on his feet . |
| 11 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |