Example sentences of "may not [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He may not exactly obey every letter of the law .
2 They may not even have a friend .
3 You ca n't have an overdraft and you may not even have a bank account .
4 Some of those universities who do demand a dissertation may not deposit copies with the British Library , and may not even have a copy available for inter-library loan .
5 You may not even like the King , but he wears the Crown of the Confessor .
6 On the other hand , the figures for press articles and radio and television programmes may not adequately reflect the importance of these as sources of information , since the majority of such features were produced either before or after the Survey period .
7 While the report may not completely resolve the question for your Lordships , it provides in the first place a very useful summary of the state of the law in 1966 .
8 You may not initially notice the effect of having a suspended CLI command file .
9 When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss .
10 The access road , however , may not actually reach the boundary of the site and the original developer may have retained a strip as narrow as 1 m .
11 They may not actually put the tenor clef in till grade grade five now I come to think about that .
12 The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is posed with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself .
13 People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself .
14 The profitability of the Business may be affected and merely replacing the defective equipment may not sufficiently compensate the Purchaser .
15 Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister .
16 It may finally be noted that the presence of a " synonymous " word-pair within a parallelistic couplet may not necessarily form an obstacle to the parallelism of greater specificity .
17 The myth that community care is cheaper than institutional care has long since been dispensed with , but this may not necessarily deter the government from seeing the impending changes as an opportunity to cut costs .
18 Although it may not necessarily clarify the position , there should nevertheless be greater recognition of children 's autonomy interests in the context of school discipline .
19 ‘ True , it may not necessarily reform the offender but at least it punishes him in a way which society would regard as just .
20 This may not necessarily mean the area has a scarcity of attractive buildings and open spaces .
21 an Investment Overview , which is a brief memorandum that highlights the main features of the business and which may not necessarily identify the name of the business ; and
22 They point out that services need to be aware of carers ' histories and their responses to stress , and that retirement may not necessarily increase a person 's ability or willingness to become an informal carer .
23 Whoever owns a piece of land may not necessarily own the mineral rights .
24 It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended .
25 If , therefore , an old person at this stage moves a distance into the son or daughter 's home , they may not only lose a lifetime of familiar associations but they must struggle with complex adjustments within the family .
26 To recapitulate , it is clear that differences in national legislation may not only have the effect of preventing a good or service produced in one state being sold in another , but may also distort conditions of competition between manufacturers or suppliers located in different Member States of the Community .
27 A standard paragraph may not always reflect the tone required to deal with a particular enquiry ; it may not be quite appropriate to particular circumstances and it may not feel right to the recipient .
28 That accounting systems can be counter-productive for example the maximization of a division 's profit may not always ensure the maximization of enterprise profit .
29 They may not always exhibit the wisdom of Solomon but at least they might know where to draw the line .
30 It is noteworthy that old people may not always have a sense of choice about whether or not to go into residential care .
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