Example sentences of "may [not/n't] realise " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally the woman may not realise that this has happened , and so may become pregnant . |
| 2 | While they may not realise it , owners can be held liable if their dog attacks someone , or causes an accident or damage , and this policy covers them up to £1 million . |
| 3 | In fact , we are all familiar with franchises , although we may not realise it . |
| 4 | The newly retired partner is often prepared to do more around the house , but may not realise that there is a difference between being helpful and fully sharing domestic responsibilities . |
| 5 | You may not realise it , but no matter how you clean you manage to keep your house , toxic chemicals and harmful gasses still lurk there . |
| 6 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |
| 7 | The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . |
| 8 | Old people who are not in frequent contact with younger people may lose confidence in their ability to give as well as to receive : Younger people , anxious to please , to give and , often , ‘ not to worry mother ’ may not realise the part which they play in creating a one-way traffic . |
| 9 | You may not realise until you are asked that you do not have the skills required . |
| 10 | Some characters may not realise that it is a Daemonette at first , of course . |
| 11 | Although some people may not realise it , if they are paying NI contributions they are almost certainly already contributing towards an additional pension : either to the State scheme , known as SERPS ; or to a contracted-out company pension scheme . |
| 12 | You may not realise , as you watch the humble caddie walk the fairways , how heavy that bag is . |
| 13 | Others may not realise that some antibiotics interfere with the Pill 's effectiveness . |
| 14 | You may not realise that this is quite a recent phenomenon . |
| 15 | Children may not realise it themselves , but that is the real reason why Matilda is so popular among them . |
| 16 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 17 | Something may be wrong but they may not realise it . |
| 18 | Speakers from outside the black community , however , may not have any idea of the origin of these expressions , while even those within the black community may not realise their Caribbean connections . |
| 19 | There 's concern that schools may not realise what help is needed because the children seem to be coping in the classroom . |
| 20 | Police say it is possible the driver may not realise an accident has happened . |
| 21 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |