Example sentences of "may [not/n't] apply " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this may not apply to other offences . |
| 2 | The routines suggested are guidelines : some of them may not apply to you in your current work . |
| 3 | At the moment , the establishment of a branch tends to require less documentation , formality and cost , while a subsidiary has the advantage of being a separate legal personality , with the result that disclosure requirements may not apply to the parent , and the subsidiary 's debts will not necessarily become obligations of its parent in the event of insolvency . |
| 4 | Such individuals counselling is not very suitable for covering in this feature because advice which may apply to one case of aggression may not apply to another … and so could even make matters worse , or put owners at risk . |
| 5 | Natural selection is important , but may not apply universally . |
| 6 | And while this may not apply in an ‘ equal opportunity ’ marriage , where the domestic jobs are shared equally between husband and wife , in a majority of households women still do the lion 's share of the cooking and cleaning . |
| 7 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 8 | I mean I would put that under group work and social skills and no er the way I would approach it but it may not apply . |
| 9 | However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems . |
| 10 | This constraint may not apply to fundholding practices where , in addition to the obvious benefits to the patient , real financial incentives exist . |
| 11 | Work on skeletal ageing is still far from complete ; most of the ossification periods and eruption times have been worked out on American and European samples , and may not apply exactly to other parts of the world 's population . |
| 12 | Some may not apply to your work — but , if so , are you clear why ? |
| 13 | These results , therefore , may not apply to persons with community-acquired pneumonia who are managed as outpatients . |
| 14 | Second , because nursing home residents were excluded , the finding that age is not strongly associated with 2-year mortality may not apply to these people who are at high risk for pneumonia . |
| 15 | Conversely such restrictions may not apply to the desk broker back in the office , and will certainly not apply to non-member customers . |
| 16 | For example , Mr X gives property to Mr Z who holds it absolutely for the infant unmarried son of Mr X. That is a transfer of an asset and a settlement for the purposes of ss663 and 664 ( although the Revenue may not apply ss663 where the income is not paid to the infant ) . |
| 17 | This rule only applies where the specific listed items have some common feature so that a genus can be identified , and it may not apply where the general word precedes the list . |
| 18 | For faults which occur repeatedly , the scheme may not apply if the owner has not taken reasonable steps to have them fixed . |
| 19 | It may not apply to anything but I know in the past when she 's given me those things to try erm she 's got a book at home and it 'll say erm particular |