Example sentences of "of [noun pl] may [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | While perception of objects may not be prior to those mental apparati which absorb them ( a version of the Kantian categories ) , it does act as a firm physical constraint upon them . |
| 2 | You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you . |
| 3 | You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you . |
| 4 | The functional link for this class of proteins may not be their own protein sequence , but rather the nucleic acid structures recognized by their binding domains . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there is the possibility that one of the differing patterns of ideas may not be Conservatism . |
| 6 | We have so far considered reasons why the interests of managers may not be best served by pursuing the goal of profit maximisation . |
| 7 | The achievement of that purpose must on occasion require action which has urgently to be taken , and the entertainment of representations may not be compatible with the urgency . |
| 8 | The achievement of that purpose must on occasion require action which has urgently to be taken , and the entertainment of representations may not be compatible with the urgency . |
| 9 | Its remuneration in the form of wages may not be very high , but does offer a measure of security , in that wages are contractually established and regulated under existing labour laws , which means that in theory they can not be arbitrarily withdrawn or altered . |
| 10 | Descent and the status of women may not be entirely independent but they do not co-vary in the simple way suggested by Morgan . |
| 11 | Published diaries which record a day-to-day chronology of events may not be the most coherent of records , but they do not suffer from being over-edited , tidied up or altered to fit into hindsight . |
| 12 | But a series of experiments in an old airship hangar near Bedford have shown that the sequence of events may not be as simple as that . |