Example sentences of "may [not/n't] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is evidence from America that costing by ‘ Diagnosis Related Group ’ may provide a disincentive to offering support and aftercare to elderly people , as average figures for ‘ cost per case ’ may not take into account the higher costs incurred by some elderly people who need longer recovery times or more aftercare . |
| 2 | Firms based outside the European Community may not take controlling stakes . |
| 3 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 4 | The new abortion referendum , approved by the Cabinet last night , will probably go ahead with all speed while the Maastricht vote may not take place until the autumn . |
| 5 | The half-back may not take any action while the ball is still in the scrummage to convey to opponents that the ball is out . |
| 6 | The result is that the class may not take place . |
| 7 | We discuss evidence that these two types of mapping can be carried out separately and that , in certain circumstances , role-to-name mapping in particular may not take place at all . |
| 8 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 9 | Wandering scholars or rootless intellectuals may not take such things very seriously . |
| 10 | Hard on the heels of Hartnell 's collapse Fashion Editorand troubles at Ronay comes news that the March London Fashion Shows may not take place . |
| 11 | First , although it may not take very long for a trained and experienced therapist to analyse a transcript using LARSP , the procedure itself is relatively technical and is likely to take some time to learn from scratch ( Connolly 1979 ) . |
| 12 | At the rate the Wallabies play test rugby , he may not take much more than another two years to reach the thousand . |
| 13 | Bransford and McCarrell ( 1975 ) show clearly that without inference comprehension may not take place effectively in textual material , and that particular contexts produce different structures of organisation and comprehension . |
| 14 | Such judgements may be ill-informed , they may not take into account the social stresses within the area , they may simply feed prejudices already held . |
| 15 | According to PC Week , while the Macintosh will use Jot , Newton may not take advantage of the ink standard . |
| 16 | Bets that he 'll take over as president of Novell may not take into account the short life span of any of Novell 's prior heirs apparent . |
| 17 | Natural fibres such as silk and wool do n't retain perspiration smells , and are the best insulators , but they may not take the moisture away after exercise . |
| 18 | It may not take you via many of the islands which Wallace visited , but at least you 'll arrive . |
| 19 | A vertical restraint may take one of two forms : one is unilateral imposition of substantive conditions for supply , for example a manufacturer saying ‘ you may not take my product X unless you also take my product Y ’ . |
| 20 | Since an injunction may be granted on an interlocutory basis pending trial ( which may not take place for many months ) and , in cases of great urgency , on an ex parte basis , it is clear that there is a possibility of the union side being robbed of the initiative in an industrial action . |
| 21 | Whilst they may not take too much notice of advertisements which promote goods and services used in that trade , readers will tend to notice when advertisements by their suppliers are absent . |
| 22 | With a chord of C major , diatonic substitution notes would be as shown in Example 100 , resolving on the note substituted as indicated ( if any resolution takes place ) : The above resolutions may not take place at all ; indeed , one substitution note may move to another ( presuming the same harmony ) , again without any resolution taking place . |
| 23 | He may not take into account the disproportionate cost of policing the demonstration nor the content of the processor 's message . |
| 24 | He may not take the law into his own hands . |
| 25 | I only pray heaven she may not take it into her head to run away while I am out of reach ! ’ |
| 26 | For example , a surgeon may justifiably run the risk of killing the patient if the operation is necessary to save life , whereas employers may not take a substantial risk with the lives of their workers in order to increase profits . |
| 27 | The reasons are that banks may choose to hold a different liquidity ratio ; customers may not take up all the credit on offer ; and there may be no simple liquidity ratio given the range of near money assets . |
| 28 | There is some movement either way , but in broad terms and it seems to me what proponents of other sectors are doing basically , is suggesting that their particular segment is better because of erm possible improvements which may or may not take in the future . |