Example sentences of "may [not/n't] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When a complaint is made to the Commission , the Commission may or may not want to send a copy of the complaint to the other party . |
| 2 | There are lessons in that for people thinking about applying this year , and who may not intend to take a year off . |
| 3 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 4 | Another Nottingham volunteer , Sue , said , ‘ I may not have lost a lot in pounds but it 's great to know I can lose inches from parts I did n't think I could ever reduce . ’ |
| 5 | But does it matter as when you think that she may not have made a will , because then everything will go to her er next of kin as one says , intestacy rules . |
| 6 | ‘ I gather that your brother may not have made a will ; so what happens now ? ’ |
| 7 | The fact is that we give exceptional leave to remain because it would be inhumane to send some people , such as the Croatian that the hon. Member mentioned , back to their country at this time , even though they may not have made a claim of persecution . |
| 8 | The lack of a licence in Barlow Clowes ' early years may or may not have made a difference to the way investors ' funds were handled during that time . |
| 9 | Food may not have become a weapon , but the failure of Soviet agriculture to meet its peoples ' demands was a wound that contributed to the collapse of Soviet power in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 10 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 11 | It makes no difference that the parent may not have wished to go ( during the war ) or may not have had a choice ( death ) . |
| 12 | He may not have won a championship , but he had taken Leeds from bottom of the table to fourth , their highest position ever , in a much stiffer competition than the Southern League . |
| 13 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 14 | Mounted in a conspicuous position and in a convincing enclosure , a would-be thief may not wish to risk a break-in for fear of attracting attention from an alarm system , even though no such system may exist . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Equally , an offeror company may not wish to launch a bid if its own results are poor . |
| 16 | The odd crisp packet , beer can or carrier bag may not seem to make a lot of difference , but they soon add up and begin to poison and suffocate pond and wildlife , as well as encouraging the spread of disease . |