Example sentences of "may [not/n't] have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not have heard of the journalist or author concerned but that does not mean that they are not engaged on a bona fide testing programme or working on a first-class magazine feature . |
| 2 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 3 | The close relationship between settlement and cemetery may not have existed throughout the country . |
| 4 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 5 | The women in this study may not have identified with the ‘ unemployed ’ status , but employment remained a central organising principle of their lives . |
| 6 | I mean , these three men , may or may not have strayed across the border , but they certainly did nothing wrong , |
| 7 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 8 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 9 | But the work of Muschel and her collaborators , George Khoury , Richard Koller and Ravi Dhar at the National Cancer Institute and Paul Lebowitz at Yale , now makes it look as though the mutation may not have occurred in the tumour cells alone — instead , the mutant gene may be a rare variant that is actually inherited by some people . |
| 10 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 11 | Some of our members may not have got beyond the idea that women should only exercise the rights and duties of citizens locally … |
| 12 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |