Example sentences of "may [not/n't] appear " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 2 | Here , this view becomes converted into the argument that the refusal of treatment may not have been a rational decision or may not appear to others to have been so . |
| 3 | It may not appear to be strictly in keeping with the true spirit of love , but there is a great deal of useful ‘ good ’ to be learned from a military background . |
| 4 | W H Smith , apparently , has guidelines about what pictures may or may not appear in its titles and , especially , what may appear on the covers , although the content of this rule book is ‘ something I ca n't reveal to you — although I 'm sure you can imagine what may or may not appear ’ . |
| 5 | W H Smith , apparently , has guidelines about what pictures may or may not appear in its titles and , especially , what may appear on the covers , although the content of this rule book is ‘ something I ca n't reveal to you — although I 'm sure you can imagine what may or may not appear ’ . |
| 6 | We also saw how closely related these two stitch formations really are , even though at first sight this may not appear to be true . |
| 7 | The current area may not appear attractive to staff , possibly because of high house prices , and so firms may want to move to help their recruitment or perhaps reduce their staff turnover levels . |
| 8 | Although it may not appear especially hygienic to keep the litter tray in the kitchen , this is probably the best place because the floor surface here tends to be impermeable . |
| 9 | If the opinions of the referees agree there is no real problem , but sometimes they do not , and even when they do agree the editor 's decision may not appear to agree with the opinions . |
| 10 | That this is the case stands , quite independently of the reasons which may have been given for not doing so in the past , reasons which may or may not appear cogent today . |
| 11 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 12 | Societies have an extraordinary capacity either to consider objects as having attributes which may not appear as evident to outsiders , or else altogether to ignore attributes which would have appeared to those same outsiders as being inextricably part of that object . |
| 13 | The DoH may have to redraft the guidelines , and even if the legal difficulties are overcome the guidelines may not appear for another two to three weeks — a frustrating delay for professionals at a time when social worker are increasingly being blamed by the public for failing to control young people in care . |
| 14 | The other problem is that tasks honoured with a separate colour on-screen may not appear emphasized on a black and white printout . |
| 15 | In fact , the high ROI , in accounting terms , may not appear until late in the product life-cycle . |
| 16 | Here , between a number of statements of the same theme or section , contrasting sections are introduced , which may or may not appear again . |
| 17 | Does it apply to a public utility which may or may not appear to be similar to a local government ? |
| 18 | This may not appear to be a splendid dish , but its star-rating qualities are in its simplicity . |
| 19 | Severe burns result after skin contact even with dilute solutions ; the burns may not appear until hours after exposure . |
| 20 | For instance , Hamlet 's relationship and subsequent behaviour towards Ophelia may not appear at first closely connected with Hamlet 's plan of murder . |
| 21 | Cawkell had earlier drawn attention to the fact that important ‘ local ’ journals may not appear in JCR or in citation maps . |
| 22 | As implied earlier , there are some other groups of adjectives which also may not appear in predicative position because of the meaning of this construction , but their introduction must await further discussion , in particular of the notions of sense-modification and separative qualification ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 23 | While Aborigines may not appear an obvious choice of topic for a viewdata search , the teacher nevertheless found that the tourist information on Australia not only provided some useful background material , but could be used to obtain travel brochures in quantity which the pupils could then use as a visual source . |