Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] may not be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Public judicial review actions are those which must be brought under Ord. 53 ; hybrid judicial review actions are those which may but need not be brought under Ord. 53 ; and private judicial review actions may not be brought under Ord. 53 .
2 Though the flush of larvae on the pasture may be an annual event , the appearance of clinical nematodiriasis is not ; thus if the flush of L3 is early the suckling lambs may not be consuming sufficient grass to acquire large numbers of L3 , and if it is late the lambs may be old enough to resist the larval challenge .
3 Numbered and un-numbered division elements may not be mixed in the same , , or element .
4 If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances .
5 Every organisation leaks , and the recent leaks of Council papers may not be repeated .
6 And cash savings may not be cut by as much as the government hopes .
7 Regarded in the abstract , pollution offences may not be treated as ‘ real crimes ’ .
8 As we have seen in Lecture 7 , equilibrium in the factor or output markets may not be achieved , and we have to examine in the context of a fully specified disequilibrium model whether the economy converges to an equilibrium path , which in turn may or may not be tending to a steady state .
9 The listing particulars may not be published until they have been approved by a competent authority in the member state ; the competent authority in the UK is the London Stock Exchange .
10 A provision for the partners to draw in advance of final ascertainment of their profit sharethe limits of which might conveniently be defined by reference to some proportion of the previous year 's profits ( Clause 10.03 ) making sufficient allowance for the possibility that that year 's profit levels may not be repeated let alone exceeded .
11 Spirit mediums may not be paid for their services , and their power comes primarily from their collective efforts in large group seances .
12 First , preference shares may not be issued on a secured basis whereas loan stock can be charged on the offeror 's assets and ranks ahead of unsecured creditors ( both present and future ) .
13 THESE BACKGROUND NOTES MAY NOT BE COPIED
14 Supermarket food prices may not be affected .
15 Massey 's schematic representation of this form seems to imply that particular production units may be associated with head offices , but this does not imply a privileged status for any particular unit because head office functions may not be associated with any productive unit and are in any event highly mobile .
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