Example sentences of "may not have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 2 | Firstly , the hypotensive effect of this drug may not have been of sufficient size to reduce microalbuminuria . |
| 3 | While he was in Chinese captivity , and apart from writing poems in classical Chinese ( some of which , while they may not have been of the highest order classically , are nevertheless moving and rather beautiful ) Ho had also translated Dr Sun Yat Sen 's modern political classic the San Min Chu I into Vietnamese and this expedient flattery of China and Chinese continued after Ho 's release . |
| 4 | When services were concentrated in large hospitals , it was possible for good managers to keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals , and although the physical and emotional environment may not have been of high quality , most residents would be properly fed and clothed and protected from abuse . |
| 5 | What form of building this curia took is unknown , though it may not have been unlike a principia . |
| 6 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 7 | The cost of restricting emissions in a country struggling with inefficient smokestack industries may not have been in Budyko 's mind , but it is an obvious factor in the Soviet attitude , as it is elsewhere . |
| 8 | Amelia may not have been in the same league as the great adventurers who scale mountain peaks , cross oceans and the icy wastes of the Antarctic and Arctic or shoot the white water rapids of unnavigable rivers , but she was a real traveller , ranked among those who actually get up and go , sacrificing security and facing the cold disdain of their bank managers . |
| 9 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 10 | In certain cases the insured or members of his household may not have been in residence for a considerable period but has relied upon friends or neighbours to perform an occasional check of the property . |
| 11 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 12 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 13 | It is true that his young contemporaries , like Edmond Burke and Oliver Goldsmith and indeed later generations of great Irish writers like Maria Edgeworth , Oscar Wilde , Dion Boucicault , W. B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw , may not have been in the habit of regularly frequenting pubs . |
| 14 | In others , however , fee-payers ( who may or may not have been among ‘ the gifted and the intellectual ’ ) existed alongside those who had won places in the eleven-plus competition . |
| 15 | This scheme evokes strong doubts from some area officers and bureaux managers who may not have been among those who carried the vote to accept the plans . |