Example sentences of "[n mass] may [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Most people may not be primed to be ‘ subverted ’ because they think of pop as light entertainment .
2 As for apprenticeships in British Aerospace in Clwyd , more than 100 people may not be offered jobs by that great company because of the Government 's failed economic policies .
3 At the same time it affirms that academic staff may not be dismissed for holding particular beliefs or following particular lines of inquiry , and that senior staff may not be dismissed to be replaced by more junior , and cheaper , staff .
4 At the same time it affirms that academic staff may not be dismissed for holding particular beliefs or following particular lines of inquiry , and that senior staff may not be dismissed to be replaced by more junior , and cheaper , staff .
5 Thus , the protection conferred by administration of exogenous prostaglandins of the E-series may not be caused by substitution of endogenous prostaglandins , but involves other as yet unknown mechanisms .
6 But in which he says that he 's talking about himself ‘ That so many good and learned men among the neighbouring nations who read my works may not be induced by this fellow 's calumnies to alter the favourable opinion they have formed of me , followed by the assertion that the people of England whom fate , or duty , or their own virtues have incited me to defend may be convinced from the purity and integrity of my life that my defence , if it do not redown to their honour , can never be considered as their disgrace . ’
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