Example sentences of "we [vb mod] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not be here tomorrow screamed the rock-fuck bands . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's opened up the league , ’ Hamlin said , ‘ and we may not be the only ones to benefit . ’ |
| 3 | It will be difficult to catch ; and if we do catch it , we may not be strong enough to hold it . |
| 4 | To compensate us for the expense of processing your booking and for the risk that we may not be able to resell the holiday we charge a cancellation fee on the scale shown below . |
| 5 | Likewise , we can respond to highly diluted fragrances even though we may not be able to smell them ( these are conclusions drawn from the results of other experiments carried out at Warwick ) . |
| 6 | If we hold on to the suffering of those nearest to us , we may not be strong enough to offer any real help by lifting them from whatever is affecting them . |
| 7 | We may not be very interested in tracing the history of collisions a given atom has with other atoms , as one atom is very much like another . |
| 8 | We may not be able to digest foods as easily as we once could . |
| 9 | We may not be very nice , but we 're here . |
| 10 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 11 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 12 | As Mr Armitage puts it : ‘ We may not be hitting the quantity , but we are certainly getting the quality . ’ |
| 13 | We may not be able to say no to those people ourselves , because we imagine that they are as susceptible and sensitive to rejection as we are . |
| 14 | We may not be lovers any more , but we 're still very good friends despite a few attempts to pull us apart . |
| 15 | For we may not be able to control the behaviour or attitudes of others , but we can modify our own responses . |
| 16 | Questions about the band 's future were fuelled by a Derry Brownson quote featured in the Daily Mirror which originated in a European magazine : ‘ We may not be around much longer . |
| 17 | We may not be the cleverest but we 're athletically gifted . ’ |
| 18 | A decade or three back , when most of us could visit most countries without a visa , there was little expectation that this would prove a high water mark and that restrictions would steadily increase , but we may not be able to assume that the freedom to dial direct to distant countries will continue to increase : Egypt has cut direct-dial telephone links with Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iraq , Sudan and Iran to make it harder for Moslem militant leaders in exile to communicate with groups at home and organise terrorist attacks , the Al-Akhbar newspaper reports ; it is still possible to call via an operator . |
| 19 | We do need to ensure that a broad range of views are truly represented even though we may not be able to force individual citizens ( consumers ? ) to acknowledge these . |
| 20 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 21 | We may not be in the First Eleven , but we are a pretty strong team , Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Beerbohm , Chesterton and Haverford Downs . |
| 22 | and we may not be able to show it to you . |
| 23 | For example , all of us have a stake , or an objective interest , in a healthy environment but we may not be aware of the ways in which the environment is being polluted to the detriment of our health . |
| 24 | It mean that we may not be able to rejoice in what is happening now . |
| 25 | And we may not be able to rejoice in certain things that have happened in our past . |
| 26 | Finally the position of the mouth of the river at all stages may not be known so that we may not be certain of which stretch of the former river we are dealing with . |
| 27 | We may not be able to plan the unplannable but we have to accommodate it in our plans . |
| 28 | We may not be the strictest Order in the realm but Godstowe is a nunnery not a refuge for former whores . |
| 29 | However plans have been approved for the residential development of the Mill Yard and it is possible that by March/April 94 work may be in progress and we may not be able to use this site . |
| 30 | And I 'll start backwards by saying what I 'd like to see , and that is that I think with a group of women coming from such a broad spectrum , that the work we 're going to do is never going to be the same and there are going to be large areas in which we may not be able to work together . |