Example sentences of "may [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 2 | The Family equivalents to the more recently established Anonymous Fellowships may not yet exist in this country or certainly be very rare outside major cities even if , as in anorexia , the primary problem may be life-threatening . |
| 3 | The concepts expressed in the plan may not yet exist in the organisation . |
| 4 | Following call , candidates can call themselves barristers but may not yet practise as such . |
| 5 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 6 | At first glimpse it may not even appear to be armoured , but if the animal is taken into a predator 's mouth its fur is sufficiently spiky to cause acute discomfort and it is quickly dropped . |
| 7 | The idea for the tongs may not even exist as a sketch ; simply as a concept in the smith 's mind . |
| 8 | For the prospect of a retirement pension for all those presently under fifty years of age is looking distinctly forlorn we must protect the pension rights of all contributing members we must insist that trustees are elected from the shop floor and not appointed by some faceless director who may not even reside in this country . |
| 9 | To this end , we urge you not only to use the Line yourself for shopping , sightseeing etc. , but also to encourage your friends , acquaintances , neighbours and relatives , who may not even know of the existence of the Line , to use it . |
| 10 | They may not even know of the bogs . ’ |
| 11 | May not even agree with it I do n't know . |
| 12 | However , the new versions do not support the de facto OSF/Motif graphical user interface standard — though the Sun version does support OpenLook — and Motif support may not even feature by the time the RS/6000 version is delivered , though ICL says it is working on it . |
| 13 | A paper person is a walking theory , and one which may not even believe in itself ; and then the paper person will not merely have nobody , he will have no theory to be . |
| 14 | These parts may not even operate at 60MHz . |
| 15 | The fuzziness of the boundaries and the technical differences between the three types of cohesive device need not concern us here ; after all , they may not even operate in the same way in other languages . |
| 16 | It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria . |
| 17 | But the Utopia of machine-independence may not ultimately appear on the custodial atlas of the future . |
| 18 | Livestock can appear to become split between two or more pieces of glass and while this may not initially seem to be a problem , it can become very irritating when you have to keep altering your viewing position to see your fish and other livestock in their entirety . |
| 19 | Many people do not like working in an atmosphere of petty theft , and while they may not actually inform on their colleagues , they might well have taken the first opportunity to leave . |
| 20 | It may not actually lie in the water , but it still lies within the boundary of the lateral water hazard . |
| 21 | This 4-tuple I' of coordinates in the TV images may not actually correspond to any real point in the 3-dimensional space of possible positions for the torch , but that does not matter . |
| 22 | Such deterioration may not necessarily result from the proclamation of commitment . |
| 23 | Tables 14.6 and 14.7 suggest that increased capital intensity within the UK may not necessarily lead to proportionate increases in output . |
| 24 | National emergencies , however , may not necessarily coincide with times of personal emergency and gold is an erratic investment . |
| 25 | National emergencies , however , may not necessarily coincide with times of personal emergency and gold is an erratic investment . |
| 26 | National emergencies , however , may not necessarily coincide with times of personal emergency and gold is an erratic investment . |
| 27 | As the entries may not necessarily fit on one physical line , they may be continued by following any closing square bracket with a minus sign ( as shown in the example ) . |
| 28 | As the entries may not necessarily fit on one physical line , they may be continued by following any closing square bracket with a minus sign ( as shown in the example ) . |
| 29 | Each test sentence used is therefore a valid member of the English language ( although it may not necessarily conform to prescriptive syntactic rules ) . |
| 30 | The housing may rise in value , but people 's relative incomes may not necessarily rise by the same amount . |