Example sentences of "they [modal v] not be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not be used to telling you so honestly about how you behave , so take it slowly to begin with . |
| 2 | On an assets purchase , Newco will not acquire any of the vendor 's trading losses or unutilised capital allowances , and they may not be usable by the vendor , for example where Newco is taking over the liabilities which reduce the aggregate value of the target business down to a nominal amount . |
| 3 | They will take many different forms and indeed they may not be self-evident in the ‘ real ’ concrete world at all . |
| 4 | Because very very often people when They may not be sure themselves might they ? |
| 5 | They may not be sure exactly what career they want , or whether to go on to higher education . |
| 6 | It should be added , though the authors do not mention this , that the highly solidaristic ideology of mining communities in the North-East of Britain may well be of great importance in sustaining these egalitarian working groups and that they may not be viable in other areas where a more individualistic ideology is adhered to . |
| 7 | I do not want over-regulation or road traffic engineers simply toeing the line and following regulations as they are laid down where they may not be appropriate for their particular locality . |
| 8 | ( But even they may not be accurate : census-takers last year reported that , in some areas , they found it hard to get people to fill in their forms , because they thought the census had some connection with poll tax . |
| 9 | On cheaper tents they may not be shock-corded . |
| 10 | I was delighted to see that th on the if you are now considering buying extra funds to see an encouragement residential home places There is however an important issue where you get shall we say a quality development in a rural area , and I mean a quality development , which would be probably has to be above the rates quoted here where talk a discussion with the owners because they may not be available to local people and that does concern me a bit in rural areas . |
| 11 | They may not be contributory — but the odds are heavy on their being present . |
| 12 | On the whole , I hope that there is sufficient material in the book for analysts of any persuasion to make a start on the process of using system ideas to investigate and understand human activity ; at the same time , systems students and researchers may well benefit by studying some of the interpretations and practical examples given here , reflecting as they do a Weltanschauung with which they may not be familiar . |
| 13 | Therefore , they may not be representative of recurrence rates in untreated individuals . |
| 14 | People in pictures can be more problematic to describe , since they may not be identifiable , a special difficulty with portraits . |
| 15 | We are not suggesting that the tasks and skills children with severe learning difficulties are taught in schools under the new orthodoxy are of no value , or that they may not be useful to the children , either now or in later life . |
| 16 | They may not be British , but er there are more hostages in there , because hostages really are what they are . |
| 17 | Sometimes they may not be able to eat or talk very well . |
| 18 | If they are not athletically fit they may not be able to hunt for a while and this could be critical , as most of them must kill regularly to survive . |
| 19 | It can be equally disastrous for them and for others if they make a permanent arrangement on impulse and encourage a relative or friend to give up their own home and move in with them because they are under stress and feel that they may not be able to continue to live alone . |
| 20 | Do n't try messing around with ordinary control units , by the way , as they may not be able to cope with the different wattages . |
| 21 | Leading lenders were last night warning they may not be able to pass on any further rate reductions to mortgage holders . |
| 22 | They may not be able to fly and one does n't like to enquire too deeply into how elegant they look below the waterline , but steamer ducks — their wings gyrating through the water like paddle-wheels — can make 12 knots , and more in a following wind . |
| 23 | They may not be able to give final answers , but they can provide some very important insights ( see also Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 24 | But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in . |
| 25 | But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in . |
| 26 | Indeed , this type of group is not particularly suitable for those individuals in such a crisis , as they may not be able to concentrate on the material presented . |
| 27 | ‘ Give me sons or I shall die , ’ said Leah to Jacob ( Genesis 30 : 6 ) , expressing the anguish suffered by many people on learning they may not be able to have children . |
| 28 | They may not be able to raise sufficient capital to fund effective expansion . |
| 29 | Individuals may not have access to private transport to substitute for inadequate public provision ; they may not be able to obtain a lift when necessary and they may not possess a telephone or the resources to obtain a car or phone . |
| 30 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |