Example sentences of "may [not/n't] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Practical support in the home means that family members may not have to spend so long in hospital . |
| 2 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 3 | But then the travellers , too , may not have been quite as lucky as Stewart , in his old age , can sometimes suggest . |
| 4 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 5 | Pilots ' helmets with miniature built-in video screens may not have obvious applications in hotels and restaurants , but there are several defence-led developments which do , and which will increasingly be seen around the industry . |
| 6 | It is possible for an aircraft to have several different modes of spinning , and all of them may not have been discovered during the testing . |
| 7 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 8 | Emergency contraception sometimes called ‘ the morning after pill ’ may protect you against pregnancy if you have had sexual intercourse without contraception or if you think that the method you have used may not have worked — but it should never be used as a regular method of family planning . |
| 9 | It may not have been the origin of his interest in such people but clearly played a formative part in his development . |
| 10 | They may not have enthused him for their particular brand of political idealism , but they certainly sowed seeds of great potential musically . |
| 11 | The empiricists , although they may not have taken up Descartes ' idea that the mind is an immaterial substance , followed him in treating the contents of mind as objects private and internal to the individual and different from physical objects . |
| 12 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 13 | People who ‘ expect ’ older people to have worsening health or to ‘ decline ’ in their faculties , may not have a positive approach to various ways of coping with physical and mental changes . |
| 14 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 15 | Nihilist is the case but it risks confusion between Dostoevsky and Turgenev who may not have invented the word but certainly gave it very wide currency . |
| 16 | Mr Cash and his Friends of Bruges seem to want to fight a battle against federalism today which may not have to be fought at all . |
| 17 | She may not have any speech , but she has no problems in making her feelings clear : she wails at the memory . |
| 18 | But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr ’ Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on , he does have a leg to stand on . |
| 20 | Military sources said some those arrested may not have direct knowledge of the coup . |
| 21 | Money may not have changed hands . |
| 22 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 23 | Spanish , Portuguese , Arabic and Japanese are the most useful languages , Sir Alfred says , because they ‘ have a wide catchment area containing many decision-makers who may not have a command of English ’ . |
| 24 | Mr Gandhi may not have been personally involved in the Bofors contract , but his government 's clumsy efforts to keep the case under wraps have smacked of guilt , and the Prime Minister 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ image of five years ago has all but been destroyed by the scandal . |
| 25 | There was grumbling that he may not have heard among tribesmen at al Hassaniyeh who are resentful at not being able to voice their grievances freely . |
| 26 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 27 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 28 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 29 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 30 | The problem of fascist sympathies among the ranks of MI5 at the outset of the war is entirely ignored , as is the removal in 1940 of its founder and director , Sir Vernon Kell , which may or may not have been connected with that issue . |