Example sentences of "may [not/n't] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the feared return of large numbers of KGB agents may not have been the only operational reason to influence the intelligence men to fear the election of a Labour government under the premiership of Harold Wilson . |
| 2 | Enclosure may not have been the only or even the most potent of the forces increasing and impoverishing the rural proletariat in the southern and Midland counties , but it was impor-tant in bringing many to a total wage-dependency . |
| 3 | Although , as we have seen , Saxon infiltration into the Sussex area took a more peaceable form in the fourth and fifth centuries , Ella 's invasion may not have been the first . |
| 4 | This may not have been the explicit aim of the programmes outlined below , but the consequences for the inner cities were real enough . |
| 5 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 6 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
| 7 | It may not have been the ideal preparation but after 20 years as a professional , I have got my priorities right . ’ |
| 8 | The mammalian process may not have been the safest way to perpetuate the species , but as the emerging man was , by virtue of the very nature of the evolutionary process , developing a body capable of the enjoyment of life to a degree equal to that of all other forms of life in total , he was restricted to what was biologically possible . |
| 9 | EARLY MAN may not have been the competitive , scheming , naked aggressor we once thought he was , but those who seek his remains certainly are . |
| 10 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 11 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 12 | There may not have been the fullest consideration of the range of IT subjects utilised in student 's research . |
| 13 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 14 | It belonged to Robert Bliss , a baker of Painswick , in the later 17th century , although he may not have been the original builder . |
| 15 | Some fields were probably cultivated only in the dry season and generally in the Veracruz wetlands there may not have been the intensive year-round agriculture as practised in the upland chinampas |
| 16 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |