Example sentences of "may [not/n't] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presentation may not get you plus points , but poor presentation gets the sort of result which reflects the lack of effort put into the tape . |
| 2 | The latest talks , which began with a meeting planned between the flight attendants union and management on Wednesday to discuss a new labour contract are not expected to produce firm proposals and the next bid for United Airlines may not get off the ground until well into 1990 . |
| 3 | Even on Berlin , Mr Kohl may not get his way . |
| 4 | Having taken the initiative on the Northern Territories , officials of the ruling party are worried that they may not get all the co-operation they need from the civil service . |
| 5 | And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team . |
| 6 | Those who pin their hopes on highly specified , short range solutions may or may not get it right . |
| 7 | The continuing theme during basic training will be interviewing skills , without which the advisory process may not get underway . |
| 8 | If you go abroad to live , or remain outside the UK for three months or more , you can continue to receive the pension , but you may not get any increase when the pension goes up . |
| 9 | You may not get a standing ovation , but applause you do n't need . |
| 10 | It 's probably better to set your mind to the possibility that you may not get what you want that quickly this year — which does n't mean you wo n't get it ever . |
| 11 | Be aware , too , that behaving this assertively may get agreement from people and acquiescence but it may not get dedication and loyalty . |
| 12 | Also deduction of the Fund 's initial charge ( where applicable ) means that if an investor withdraws from his investment in the short term he may not get back the amount he originally invested . |
| 13 | IBM is said to be late off the mark and may not get the chance to inject itself officially . |
| 14 | But this information still may not get through . |
| 15 | You may not get to attend client meetings , but this depends on whether you were employed as an experienced but young professional or are a new entrant who is just beginning . |
| 16 | by the veins , there 's always an exception to every rule and the exception to that rule in the case of the heart and the lung connection is the pulmonary artery and the pulmonary vein , you may not get asked anything about this , but just in case you do it 's as well to know , in that instance the flow is reversed , in other words the pulmonary vein takes blood away from the heart and up to the lungs , and the pulmonary artery brings the oxygenated blood back down to the heart from the lungs , if you want to have a look at the diagrams for that and look at it yourself later on , there 's no need for you to get concerned or confused about this at all , there 's no need . |
| 17 | Well , yes , we can complain about their performance and we may or may not get redress via their employers . |
| 18 | The national data on use of services by age may indeed not truly reflect needs of individuals at different ages ; there is , after all , evidence of rationing by age , so the elderly may not get the health care they need . |
| 19 | One problem with this kind of editing is that you may not get a clean cut at the points where you stop and start . |
| 20 | If we do not invest our oil reserves wisely , for the future , we may not get off so lightly next time . |
| 21 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 22 | Er , but by the time I had my passport so I thought may not get a job again better to try the luck somewhere else . |
| 23 | Of course , as with any investment in stocks and shares , the value of units and the income from them can go down as well as up , and an investor may not get back the amount originally invested . |
| 24 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 25 | If you invest here , your money may lose its value , your products can not be reliably priced for trade across Europe ; you may face high transaction costs ; and you may not get the full benefits of a single market . ’ |
| 26 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |
| 27 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 28 | Many in the Labour movement were prepared to admit that without a strong combination forcing the National Government out of office " we may not get a chance for a very long time of putting into effect our ultimate aims " . |
| 29 | And he seems to think I may not get any worse , but we sha n't know for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 30 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |