Example sentences of "may not be [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers .
2 In opposition to centrally imposed ‘ local economic strategies ’ , these initiatives of the left explicitly recognize that what is appropriate in one place , may not be of much use in another .
3 Although baby universes may not be of much use for space travel , they have important implications for our attempt to find a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe .
4 In any case , as we shall see in Chapter 8 , strengths very greatly in excess of I per cent of the Young 's modulus may not be of much interest in practical engineering .
5 Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position .
6 In the student example , the fact that the person is female may not be of great significance and therefore there could be an attribute ‘ sex ’ of the person entity .
7 On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all .
8 Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series .
9 Some mannerisms may not be of great use to the interviewer in assessing your character but they may work against you by being irritating .
10 This can be difficult to organize and may not be of great use to the teacher either in planning lessons or in providing feedback for diagnostic purposes .
11 Although the issue may not be of great interest in urban areas , it is important in rural areas , and I wonder whether the Bill will tackle the problem of road widths and the width of vehicles travelling down narrow country lanes .
12 Extensive microbiological evaluation obviously increases the number of abnormalities detected ; however , these may or may not be of pathogenic relevance as also indicated by the persistence of symptoms after eradication of several infective agents reported by others .
13 ‘ Go on , Wilson , though it may not be of any use . ’
14 With two votes West Germans are in a different position , even though their first vote may not be of any use .
15 The situation in which a sexual problem is " masked " by a non-sexual presenting problem which may or may not be of true significance is not uncommon .
16 If , however , we are talking about the number two or number three in a particular market , they may not be of sufficient size to achieve these objectives .
17 So until that comes out I can not actually confirm what may or may not be in that manifesto .
18 Mm it it may it may not be in that nature because the nature of of supply teaching work of course is that
19 I think , I may not be in perfect shape , but I ai n't gon na run away from you .
20 It is our dawning awareness that peat may not be in endless supply , and the prevalent fashion to be ‘ green ’ that have opened the way to alternatives .
21 Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language .
22 Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines .
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