Example sentences of "this may [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may not prevent a GATT deal , though it does make one less likely . |
| 2 | This may not satisfy common law and equitable requirements which , as seen above , may require full disclosure . |
| 3 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 4 | We also saw how closely related these two stitch formations really are , even though at first sight this may not appear to be true . |
| 5 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 6 | This may not appear to be a splendid dish , but its star-rating qualities are in its simplicity . |
| 7 | Though I am , as it happens , an officer of the local Labour Party , this may not suggest the radical intellectual approach that you were perhaps looking for in your ‘ groundsperson ’ . |
| 8 | While this may not mean they are preventable , there is at least the possibility of fortifying the individual against their effects . |
| 9 | I have suggested that it can be shown to be fair or just to do so ; but this may not make it right if some other principle of greater weight is involved . |
| 10 | This may not do justice to the proper degree of personal and professional self-regard which is expected of a head . |
| 11 | This may not strike some of you as unusual but in my area silver coins rarely come from the ground in their natural colour ; they are usually black or slightly grey . |
| 12 | Basically this provides that controlling persons who ‘ knowingly or recklessly ’ fail to supervise their employees properly , with a view to preventing insider dealing violations , can be made liable for three times the profit made or loss avoided ( this may not exceed a $1m fine ) for violations committed by their employees or other controlled persons . |
| 13 | If only one household appeals this may not carry much weight , but if several of us do , and give similar grounds for the appeal , then we stand a better chance of succeeding . |
| 14 | We feel differently about our parents when we are children than we do as adults , and while this may not alter our recollections of everyday family life , it will affect what we choose to highlight , and how we sum up our relationship with them . |
| 15 | This may not last . |
| 16 | ‘ This may not last forever . |
| 17 | This may not matter with mortality data , where it seems unlikely that there would be very rapid transformation in the main causes of death . |
| 18 | This may not matter too much if they have professional advisers on whom they could rely . |
| 19 | So if , at some stages of a life , the individual is poorer than at others , this may not matter because everybody will experience the same relative shifts in affluence as they move through stages of life . |
| 20 | However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much . |
| 21 | The numbers of science graduates leaving universities can be estimated , but this may not reflect the number of people going on to take up careers in science . |
| 22 | If you only wanted the data of course , and not the accessing software , this would not be a problem , but this may not meet your needs . |
| 23 | Traditionally all schools are involved in routine reviewing of the curriculum , but this may not involve either questioning basic assumptions or considering the whole curriculum of the school . |
| 24 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 25 | While this may not present a problem if the child 's difficulty is perceived as one of understanding syntax , it does emphasise the point that , although LARSP is very detailed , it is not necessarily the best assessment for every child . |
| 26 | Furthermore , although smoking habits can be modified , this may not affect ulcer healing since the healing rate in ex-smokers was comparable with that in patients who continued to smoke . |
| 27 | Topham ( 1983 ) argues that this may not affect the optimal number of residents in the locality but would influence the optimal provision of the good . |
| 28 | While this may not create such serious problems if the dog is a small Jack Russell terrier , a larger dog could quite easily knock someone over and cause serious injury . |
| 29 | However this may not give a learner as much help as they can get from seeing the actions , people , objects and settings location footage will contain . |
| 30 | Although the 12 such patients were identified for more than 400 patients with DU examined , this may not represent the true prevalence of H pylori negative patients with DU as not all the 400 patients with DU had their H pylori state determined with the same stringency . |