Example sentences of "may not [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems listed above — and others — are real ones and may not easily be overcome . |
| 2 | The golfer 's name may not easily be discovered , but it may be easy to determine the landowner 's identity . |
| 3 | Many of the meats in this category may not immediately be labelled as sausages in your mind , but this is where they fit in the standard delicatessen classification . |
| 4 | It is appreciated that the dates for some events may not yet be finalised . |
| 5 | Mr Birt 's display of candour and remorse has not stopped the seepage , leaving the vague impression the whole story may not yet be known . |
| 6 | Thus , the Scottish Law Commission in para 5:23 of their Memorandum 25 , observed that s62(4) : … is of importance since the introduction of the rule that property in sale might pass without delivery would otherwise have been possible by resort to transactions in the form of sale to circumvent the rule that a security over moveables may not generally be constituted without transfer to them . |
| 7 | This may mean having to call some or all of the witnesses from the magistrates ' court or Crown Court and he may not just be given leave to put in the notes of evidence . |
| 8 | More significantly , if questions may not even be asked in open court about illegal tapping , how is the victim to find out about it in order to bring it to the attention of the police ? |
| 9 | A further group of works and not even the relevant authorities know how many , except that it runs into hundreds of thousands are ‘ notified ’ ; that is , they may not even be lent , restored or sold within Italy , let alone exported , without the permission of the authorities . |
| 10 | If the suspect 's lawyer is not present , his statement may not even be documented , let alone used in later proceedings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But strange occurrences prompt them each to wonder whether Xorandor 's progeny may not again be interfering with human activities . |
| 13 | 7.5.1.1 the Premises or the Retained Parts or any part of either of them are damaged or any part of them are damaged or destroyed by any of the [ Insured Risks or Insured Risks except one against which insurance may not ordinarily be arranged with an insurer of repute for properties such as the Premises unless the Landlord has in fact insured against that risk ] so that the Premises or any part of them are unfit for occupation or use and |
| 14 | 7.6.1.1 the Premises the Retained Parts or any part of either of them are damaged or destroyed by any of the [ Insured Risks or Insured Risks except one against which insurance may not ordinarily be arranged with an insurer of repute for properties such as the Premises unless the Landlord has in fact insured against that risk ] and |
| 15 | This explains why the totem animal may not normally be killed , and why the totemic clan is exagamous . |
| 16 | Such modules may not subsequently be deleted from the SPR . |
| 17 | Such modules may not subsequently be deleted from the SPR . |
| 18 | As in the previous areas discussed , objects may not merely be used to refer to a given social group , but may themselves be constitutive of a certain social relation . |
| 19 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 20 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 21 | The attitude-holder , in expressing the attitude , may not actually be engaged in face-to-face debate , for what matters is the general context of controversy , not the specific interpersonal context . |
| 22 | Just as a material body may or may not actually be moving , so a mind may or may not actually be thinking . |
| 23 | Just as a material body may or may not actually be moving , so a mind may or may not actually be thinking . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Outer observation is inherently fallible : one may not actually be perceiving what one thinks one is perceiving . |
| 26 | First , there is the obvious point that the very existence of private legislation procedure may not necessarily be recognised . |
| 27 | The first arises because at stage ( 2 ) delivery of the documents may not necessarily be matched by payment of the full price ; the agreement may have provided for payment by instalments and the seller will then retain a lien on the shares as an unpaid seller . |
| 28 | This can be done simply by defining the term imposing the duty as a " condition " ( giving a right to terminate the contract in the event of breach ) or " warranty " ( so that breach gives no right to terminate ) ; however , care must be taken because a court may not necessarily be bound by the label attached to a clause by the parties : for example , a term described as a " condition " will not necessarily be interpreted as a " condition " in law , so that breach of it will not necessarily allow the innocent party to terminate the contract ( L Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) . |
| 29 | The two separate Minutes may not necessarily be related but it does suggest there may be more in the Cup 's name that has hitherto been appreciated . |
| 30 | VOTERS in the Middlesbrough Borough Council area have been reminded they may not necessarily be voting in the Middlesbrough constituency tomorrow . |