Example sentences of "[noun pl] may [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even illustrations may not be adequate , details of pictures often being poorly represented , leaving an artist 's techniques , materials and handling to be discovered from more specialist studies . |
| 2 | It will even take account of the fact that some relevant objects may not be described as ‘ wooden ’ at all , but as being made of ‘ beech ’ , ‘ mahogany ’ , ‘ deal ’ or the like . |
| 3 | While perception of objects may not be prior to those mental apparati which absorb them ( a version of the Kantian categories ) , it does act as a firm physical constraint upon them . |
| 4 | Within such an approach , objects may not be reducible to the workings of a central hierarchical principle , or be directly related to what are otherwise considered the most important social divisions . |
| 5 | The proportion of non-flying invertebrates may not be as high , and they are harder to sample systematically , but I am optimistic about the numbers that remain undiscovered . |
| 6 | The industry may be run down to 12 or 14 pits , and there may be no interest from the private sector , because long-term contracts may not be negotiated , especially in view of the amount of imported coal . |
| 7 | Such attitudes may not be shared by everyone , but are accepted by most people without question . |
| 8 | They are especially important to younger children whose riding skills may not be highly developed . |
| 9 | ‘ The problem is that we are a retailer , and our skills may not be easily exported . |
| 10 | Teachers may do project work for reasons more concerned with class management than skill development , and the use of project work as a means of advancing skills may not be exploited . |
| 11 | MARTIN COWAN , 48 , is a musical instrument technology student who is well aware that his own particular skills may not be in demand when he finishes his training . |
| 12 | Deliberately broken clubs may not be replaced . |
| 13 | Ranges in ‘ pure ’ cash and carry 's tend to be limited to fast moving items so specialist products may not be stocked . |
| 14 | The spines of the African porcupines regularly encountered by lions may not be barbed . |
| 15 | In both games it was the only goal , though for Berwick Rangers the end of 90 minutes may not be the end of 111 years . |
| 16 | As a result , unequal rewards may not be necessary to harness it . |
| 17 | Structures of management and finance devised to maintain environments and institutions may not be the same as are needed to oversee renewal . |
| 18 | You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you . |
| 19 | You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you . |
| 20 | THESE BACKGROUND NOTES MAY NOT BE COPIED |
| 21 | Judges of the superior courts may not be sued for anything done or said while acting in their judicial capacity even if they act from some malicious or corrupt motive . |
| 22 | These reasons may not be entirely true , but since formal advice on radon exposure was first issued in 1987 by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) great concern has arisen in the few areas of the country that have high radon levels . |
| 23 | Twenty-five watts may not be regarded as knockout stuff , but as Fender are quick to point out , ‘ Tube watts sound a lot louder than solid state watts . ’ |
| 24 | For example , taxes may not be levied and public money may not be expended without the authority of an Act of Parliament ; an individual may not be deprived of personal liberty without positive legal authority ; private property may not be seized or searched by government except with legal authority . |
| 25 | But secured creditors may not be too happy to see GE 's money spent on unsecured creditors while they lose control of the firm 's smart new jets . |
| 26 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 27 | In other words , the relationship between the application of orthofunction and functional improvements may not be a causal one . |
| 28 | This misleading term tends to conceal the fact that dolphins are intentionally located , chased , harassed and encircled with a fishing net , from which attempts may not be made to release them . |
| 29 | The field ‘ Simultaneous media copies ’ allows you to specify that Primary and Secondary copies may not be mounted simultaneously . |
| 30 | The parameter ‘ Simultaneous media copies ’ allows the user to specify that Primary and Secondary copies may not be mounted simultaneously . |