Example sentences of "may [not/n't] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 January 1559 , the ‘ Beggars ' Summons ’ was nailed to the doors of the Scottish friaries , demanding in the name of the ‘ Blind , Crooked , Bedridden , Widows , Orphans and all other poor , so visited by the hand of God as may not work ’ , that the friars should give up their patrimony by Whitsun . |
| 2 | In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves . |
| 3 | First , what works well during research may not work in the rough-and-tumble commercial world . |
| 4 | It may not work out that way , but the teacher here has , of course , had matching , ordering and sorting in mind . |
| 5 | How it differs from Liphook , however , is that the head teacher is wise enough to understand that all children are individuals and what works for one may not work so well for another . |
| 6 | Take care when mixing colours , as plants which work together in terms of spring or summer flower colour may not work successfully when berries and autumn tints are produced . |
| 7 | Managers have different talents and abilities , and what may work for one may not work for another . |
| 8 | For example , trying to get organized or to clarify your situation when you are at your wits ' end may not work . |
| 9 | This may not work for you ; try to find out how associations assist you . |
| 10 | I 'm , I 'm going to try a little experiment which er , which may not work . |
| 11 | N.B. Languages and language learners are very idiosyncratic and what works for some may not work for others . |
| 12 | Is not it madness to be spending billions of pounds on a missile system which does not deter and may not work — and when we have no one at whom to point it ? |
| 13 | Although stimulation of an individual country may not work , joint reflation of the OECD economies may help to get out of a world-wide recession . |
| 14 | On the basis of the findings it is intended to ascertain effective management structures , and to identify the circumstances in which a collaborative approach may or may not work . |
| 15 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 16 | The sort of programmes that involve the risk that they may not work at all . |
| 17 | A back-up safety system for the UK 's nuclear power station controllers may not work properly because bugs in the computer software have not been eliminated , according to a former employee of the company that wrote the software . |