Example sentences of "may not be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Go on , Wilson , though it may not be of any use . ’ |
| 2 | In opposition to centrally imposed ‘ local economic strategies ’ , these initiatives of the left explicitly recognize that what is appropriate in one place , may not be of much use in another . |
| 3 | Some mannerisms may not be of great use to the interviewer in assessing your character but they may work against you by being irritating . |
| 4 | In any case , as we shall see in Chapter 8 , strengths very greatly in excess of I per cent of the Young 's modulus may not be of much interest in practical engineering . |
| 5 | If , however , we are talking about the number two or number three in a particular market , they may not be of sufficient size to achieve these objectives . |
| 6 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 7 | In practice , however , the elasticity of demand for imports and exports may not be of an appropriate value or else it may take considerable time before such automatic forces become effective . |
| 8 | It may or may not be of significance that the Oxford English Dictionary can find no instance of the word ‘ pornography ’ being used before 1864 ( in a decade , it may be noted , which also saw a generalised use of the term ‘ capitalism ’ ) . |
| 9 | The story which is ideal for the Sunday Telegraph may not be of very much interest to The News of the World . |
| 10 | This can be difficult to organize and may not be of great use to the teacher either in planning lessons or in providing feedback for diagnostic purposes . |
| 11 | With two votes West Germans are in a different position , even though their first vote may not be of any use . |
| 12 | The situation in which a sexual problem is " masked " by a non-sexual presenting problem which may or may not be of true significance is not uncommon . |
| 13 | On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all . |
| 14 | ‘ I may not be of your persuasion but tonight I have been persuaded that the world is reaching a turning-point in its history and that the ancient biblical promise to your people is about to be redeemed . |
| 15 | Although baby universes may not be of much use for space travel , they have important implications for our attempt to find a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe . |
| 16 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 17 | They frequently have to deal with awkward and unpleasant problems which may or may not be of their own making . |
| 18 | Although the issue may not be of great interest in urban areas , it is important in rural areas , and I wonder whether the Bill will tackle the problem of road widths and the width of vehicles travelling down narrow country lanes . |
| 19 | In the student example , the fact that the person is female may not be of great significance and therefore there could be an attribute ‘ sex ’ of the person entity . |
| 20 | Extensive microbiological evaluation obviously increases the number of abnormalities detected ; however , these may or may not be of pathogenic relevance as also indicated by the persistence of symptoms after eradication of several infective agents reported by others . |
| 21 | It may not be of safety but it maybe er not the sort of thing that we want . |
| 22 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |