Example sentences of "may not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A degree in your fifties , sixties and seventies may not lead to a new career , but it will certainly result in a growing confidence and greater fulfilment . |
| 2 | In certain instances , the length of your particular track may not coincide with a balanced pleating arrangement because of the pre-determined size of the pleats , thereby leaving a larger than usual space at one side of your curtain . |
| 3 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |
| 4 | The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . |
| 5 | You may not react to a casual slight about colonial manners , but I do . |
| 6 | He simply hopes they will emerge of their own accord , and this may not happen for a considerable time . |
| 7 | At the same time , a new Contributions Unit , which may or may not develop into a full-blown agency , will be spun out of the existing DSS central capacity in Longbenton , Newcastle ( with people stationed in every benefit office in the land and a total staff of 7,000 ) . |
| 8 | It is not a circular slipped under your door to which you may or may not respond with a pre-paid envelope . |
| 9 | Discovering Afghanistan Festival of Afghan culture , billed as London 's first of its kind , which may or may not come as a great surprise . |
| 10 | They may not come from a church-going background , but with encouragement they might well respond to an invitation to be part of the Church 's music , at least occasionally . |
| 11 | The no-tax situation is not a first-best benchmark , since it may not correspond to a desired intertemporal distribution — and this may provide grounds for government intervention . |
| 12 | Here , each individual act or continuing infraction may not amount to a significant harm of itself . |