Example sentences of "may [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the relative autonomy of certain factors within the whole allows the possibility of uneven development ; for example an economic mode of production may run ahead of a legitimating ideology , or a scientific revolution may not lead to technological change . |
| 2 | These impairments may or may not lead to functional disability , resulting in a handicap . |
| 3 | powerful local managers may not stand for centralised decision making . |
| 4 | To tell people you are ‘ deaf ’ may not result in immediate co-operation . |
| 5 | A circulation in excess of 10 will probably lead to a leak within the entity 's trade sector ; a circulation of less than 5 may not result in competitive bidding . |
| 6 | Supratentorial infiltrating , low grade gliomas are often difficult to identify on computed tomography because they are not associated with significant mass effect and may not enhance with intravenous contrast medium . |
| 7 | As implied earlier , there are some other groups of adjectives which also may not appear in predicative position because of the meaning of this construction , but their introduction must await further discussion , in particular of the notions of sense-modification and separative qualification ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | These may or may not progress to cervical cancer . |
| 9 | A second study suggests that commercially-important species , including herring , shrimp , mussels , clams and rockfish have all suffered from the oil spill , presenting a " risk that they may not respond to conventional management actions for decades " . |
| 10 | Although patients with infarction may vomit at presentation or secondary to opiate administration , this usually settles with antiemetics and may not interfere with oral therapy . |
| 11 | Whatever view is taken of this analysis , and it will be discussed more fully below , it seems to state quite clearly that the determination of sex is a matter for lawyers and courts ; that the law , in other words , must establish methods for determining sex which may or may not correspond to medical opinion . |
| 12 | While we may not believe in everlasting life , while we have it , we do believe that our life is everlasting . |