Example sentences of "and it may not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 2 | If the ballvalve on the feed-and-expansion tank jams open , it could cause the tank to overflow ( remember that the overflow pipe is really just a warning pipe designed to warn of a leaking valve , and it may not be able to cope with the flow if the valve is fully open ) . |
| 3 | Patients may not see the relevance of giving information about their social history when their problem is a physical one — and it may not be . |
| 4 | A relative could experience a crisis and it may not be just your emotional support that is needed . |
| 5 | The Gunners swept all before them in October , and it may not be coincidence that their reversal of fortune has accompanied Paul Merson 's switch from the ‘ hole ’ behind the front line to left-wing . |
| 6 | Most of it would disperse as it found its way through the gravel , and it may not be necessary to form a soakaway at the end of the drain . |
| 7 | Crumbling or loose steps are extremely hazardous , and it may not be sufficient to re-mortar individual pieces . |
| 8 | And it may not be too long before the question is asked in a game of Trivial Pursuit ‘ who was the last Victorian-born sportsman to captain Australia ’ ? |
| 9 | In the confined environment of pre-school life the infant may have appeared to be progressing normally , and it may not be until an objective screening test is given that the sight problem is recognised . |
| 10 | The danger here is that , although things may be pleasant for the workers , the incentive to work very hard is not so direct and it may not be possible to maintain a competitive position in comparison with the same industry in a developing country . |
| 11 | And it may not be automatically obvious that whereas in some dictionaries " accountable " will be a separate entry in others it will appear under the general entry of " account " . |
| 12 | Small as his or her influence may be — and it may not be small — the situation is one which now involves two people instead of one , a triad instead of a dyad , a family-plus-an-outsider rather than a family on its own . |
| 13 | A strong gatekeeper role will limit sales access to influencers and decision takers in the way laid down by company policy , and it may not be until that policy is changed that an individual supplier may be permitted sales access to present his wares . |
| 14 | maybe you should try , you know , and it may not be possible to get the absolutely perfect answer either . |
| 15 | Over ninety percent of the world 's data is indeed not held in a relational database , and it may not be appropriate for all forms of information . |
| 16 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 17 | Er er I d I do n't think that we as a panel are necessarily going to ever and and and it may not be our role in fact to do so , to come to a judgement on it , but I would have thought as a matter of common sense , and common agreement , that there should be some er way in which the various parties would come together on the basic demographic statistics and would certainly accept that certain basic projections should be used i in looking forward . |
| 18 | And at the end of the day transport matters are only one consideration which need to be taken into account in considering alternative er locations , and it may not be the most important . |
| 19 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 20 | But she fears bureaucracy may have delayed the day of judgement even further and it may not be June until judgement is given . |
| 21 | Keeping the youth in a special secure unit is stretching the council 's social services budget to the limit , and it may not be able to afford to replace some staff when they leave . |
| 22 | Cos some people er er may think , you know , the agreement because I have split the load you can still charge me the same price and it may not be the case . |
| 23 | when I say ‘ I am cold ’ I may just mean I am cold and it may not be a statement about my view of myself with regard to society and my particular stage of middle age crisis and so on and so forth , although , you know , given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous emphasis on |