Example sentences of "may not [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( vii ) Persons guilty of a corrupt practice are disqualified from standing in any constituency for five years ; persons guilty of an illegal practice may not stand for five years in the constituency in which the offence was committed ( see above , pp.75–6 ) . |
| 2 | powerful local managers may not stand for centralised decision making . |
| 3 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
| 4 | Physical miracles may not happen for each person but I felt miracles can happen within everyone . |
| 5 | This is another area where liability may not emerge for several years , as in the case of industrial disease . |
| 6 | A MERSEYRAIL train may not run for three months because of vandals . |
| 7 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |