Example sentences of "may [not/n't] have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kubrick presumably thinks that scientists , engineers and astronauts are dull dogs , a perception ( or rather , opinion , since it 's often untrue ) that he may not have imparted to Clarke . |
| 2 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 3 | Even if the unwelcome possibility was beginning to dawn on them , they may not have wanted to be the first to break the consensus . |
| 4 | Even if the unwelcome possibility was beginning to dawn on them , they may not have wanted to be the first to break the consensus . |
| 5 | Indeed , does not Locke himself raise this objection when he asks why ‘ one intellectual substance may not have represented to it , as done by itself , what it never did , and was perhaps done by some other agent ’ ? |
| 6 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 7 | Adoption should not be underestimated as a potential problem , and Howe ( 1990 ) estimated that there are approximately 600,000 relinquishing mothers in the UK — many of whom may not have come to terms with their loss . |
| 8 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 9 | Earthquake engineers may not have needed to be reminded that building design can make all the difference between life and death , but the Californian quake has increased public interest in earthquake-resistant designs . |
| 10 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 11 | It may not have occurred to them that they could do the same when viewing video by themselves . |
| 12 | He may not have returned to Paris in 1944 with all his answers to France 's problems fully formed , but he had at least decided what the problems were . |
| 13 | ‘ We are working very heavily with them to convert them and give them the business skills they may not have acquired to date , ’ says Mr Smaje . |
| 14 | Nail clippers , combs , toothpaste and toothbrushes , razors and washbags are neatly laid out on tables in the cells to await the arrival of inmates , many of whom will not be carrying such items because they may not have expected to be remanded in custody . |
| 15 | Largeness , whether as an un-eliminated pituitary defect or as a self-coded dna attempt at prolonging the dinosaurian bloodline , may not have worked to their advantage in the end . |