Example sentences of "may [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the relative autonomy of certain factors within the whole allows the possibility of uneven development ; for example an economic mode of production may run ahead of a legitimating ideology , or a scientific revolution may not lead to technological change . |
| 2 | These impairments may or may not lead to functional disability , resulting in a handicap . |
| 3 | Portuguese and Danish funds may not invest in other countries . |
| 4 | powerful local managers may not stand for centralised decision making . |
| 5 | These may not result in typical Doitsu scalation but they can affect the body shape . |
| 6 | To tell people you are ‘ deaf ’ may not result in immediate co-operation . |
| 7 | A circulation in excess of 10 will probably lead to a leak within the entity 's trade sector ; a circulation of less than 5 may not result in competitive bidding . |
| 8 | Supratentorial infiltrating , low grade gliomas are often difficult to identify on computed tomography because they are not associated with significant mass effect and may not enhance with intravenous contrast medium . |
| 9 | Morrissey 's dissatisfaction may not arise from political constrictions , but from a more profound restlessness at the limits of life . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | These may or may not progress to cervical cancer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But this may not apply to other offences . |
| 14 | It should be emphasised at the outset that this is an assumption , not an empirically established or necessary truth : what theory dictates should happen in a state of perfect competition may not occur in real , imperfect markets . |
| 15 | A second study suggests that commercially-important species , including herring , shrimp , mussels , clams and rockfish have all suffered from the oil spill , presenting a " risk that they may not respond to conventional management actions for decades " . |
| 16 | Dictionaries of American origin may not conform to English standards and the option should be available within the program to modify the contents . |
| 17 | S 1 of the German Law Concerning the Promotion of Employment ( Deutsches Beschaftigungsforderungsgesetz ) expressly states that the employer may not discriminate against part-time employees in favour of full-time employees solely because of their part-time status . |
| 18 | Although patients with infarction may vomit at presentation or secondary to opiate administration , this usually settles with antiemetics and may not interfere with oral therapy . |
| 19 | Funding based on age-related pupil numbers may not run to small groups and bespoke programmes for individual pupils . |
| 20 | Whatever view is taken of this analysis , and it will be discussed more fully below , it seems to state quite clearly that the determination of sex is a matter for lawyers and courts ; that the law , in other words , must establish methods for determining sex which may or may not correspond to medical opinion . |
| 21 | While we may not believe in everlasting life , while we have it , we do believe that our life is everlasting . |
| 22 | For this reason , a reaction may not proceed at low temperatures . |
| 23 | Some were growing beards and going bald which may not seem like drastic changes , but in the women there must have been side effects from changing your course of pills . |