Example sentences of "it may [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be echoed up on Stanley Hill Top , however , where once mighty Stanley United are chasing promotion from the Wearside League second division . |
| 2 | It may not be charged on similar sales to purchasers outside the EC . |
| 3 | This is not to say that it may not be revised . |
| 4 | If the revised bid is unattractive , it may not be accepted , and since the minimum number of shares stipulated in the offer document will not be acquired , the takeover will not proceed . |
| 5 | It may not be adjusted or working correctly or as it is operated by water temperature , it may be air locked . |
| 6 | Jesus is God ‘ incognito ’ : it is of the very nature of the presence of God as man that it must be ambiguous , that it may not be recognised by everyone , that the ‘ sign ’ by its very nature may be ‘ spoken against ’ . |
| 7 | Your solicitor , during the course of making enquiries about the home you are going to buy , may not uncover a right of way because it may not be registered and the present occupant of the property may not be aware that there is a legal right . |
| 8 | Do n't have ice in your drinks — it may not be made with purified water |
| 9 | Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people . |
| 10 | When the Rump was restored in May , he appeared before it to urge that the government ‘ may not be too long trusted in any man 's hands : that it may not be perpetuated to men ’ . |
| 11 | Candidates may not remove from an examination any answer books or material provided for the examination , other than the question paper unless it is specified that it may not be removed . |
| 12 | Only under a threat to withdraw the final from Del Mar did the organisers appreciate that a roof was an integral part of the deal , even if it may not be needed to protect horses and riders from the elements . |
| 13 | And if it 's not referenced here it may not be referenced anywhere else . |
| 14 | The statute occasionally provides in so many terms that the information may be used in evidence ; sometimes that it may not be used for certain purposes , inferentially permitting its use for others ; or it may be expressly prescribed that the evidence is not to be admitted ; or again , the statute may be silent . |
| 15 | In other words , syntactic analysis is always carried out but it may not be used in the interpretation of any particular sentence . |
| 16 | It may not be thought satisfactory to control and regulate non-governmental bodies which exercise ‘ public ’ functions just by applying private law rules and concepts to their activities . |
| 17 | Again it may not be thought to be particularly helpful that God in God 's undifferentiated nature ( or indeed the Spirit in its rather vague nature ) are to be understood as ‘ female ’ , while ‘ divine energies ’ ( sic ) , that which is clearly differentiated and self-determining , is to be seen as ‘ male ’ . |
| 18 | I use the word ‘ disease ’ loosely here as , as we shall see in a moment , it may not be attributed directly to a disease infection . |
| 19 | But it may not be appreciated that Miller 's work provided the foundation for later encyclopaedic horticultural works ( see William Stearn , Chapter 20 ) and the ‘ bright beam of gardening ’ , of which John Rogers wrote in 1839 , has continued to shine for two centuries . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) As an ‘ unregistered company , ’ I.B.C. is amenable to the jurisdiction of the English court to wind up unregistered companies under Part V of the Act of 1986 , though it may not be wound up voluntarily under that Act : see section 221(4) . |
| 21 | Appendix 1 is the most endangered list , and animals on it may not be traded for commercial purposes . |
| 22 | But immediately Hilton makes it clear that such a life-style involves an active life of its own if the peace that is sought is to be found , for it may not be had : This has been defined earlier as : Such an active component of spiritual endeavour is a concomitant of man 's temporal nature . |