Example sentences of "[pron] may not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he says : ‘ When the chips drop , when I get out , I may not even want to box again . |
| 2 | I may not even hook a fish , for the disturbance of retrieving a float through such shallow water , so close to the fish , would be sure to scare them . |
| 3 | It is vital that ways are found for archivists to have some input into provisional appraisal of records which may not yet have been created . |
| 4 | O.K.W. subsequently claimed that German fighters had shot down seven Hurricanes without loss , yet strangely only three claims can be found for 7/JG 26 , one of which may not even have been confirmed . |
| 5 | A paper person is a walking theory , and one which may not even believe in itself ; and then the paper person will not merely have nobody , he will have no theory to be . |
| 6 | Identify UP projects that will end as of 1993–94 and any planned projects which may not now go ahead . |
| 7 | Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place . |
| 8 | But there are other contributory factors , for example , the close identity between each medical school and ‘ its ’ hospital which leads to having specialties in every hospital and the well-intentioned efforts of trustees of ‘ teaching hospitals and special health authorities who marshal sometimes huge wealth in support of priorities which may not always accord with the health needs of the population . ’ |
| 9 | The Secretary of State is given the authority to sanction road and highway authorities ' schemes , which may not always fall within the regulations . |
| 10 | It is also easier to introduce customers to unusual varieties of apple , which may not always look as glossy and appealing as those we 've become used to , but taste far superior . |
| 11 | The motion is a sort of compromise which may not truly reflect the views of anyone or even an adequate solution to the problem . |
| 12 | When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 15 | To this end , we urge you not only to use the Line yourself for shopping , sightseeing etc. , but also to encourage your friends , acquaintances , neighbours and relatives , who may not even know of the existence of the Line , to use it . |
| 16 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 17 | For the prospect of a retirement pension for all those presently under fifty years of age is looking distinctly forlorn we must protect the pension rights of all contributing members we must insist that trustees are elected from the shop floor and not appointed by some faceless director who may not even reside in this country . |
| 18 | Secretary Jim McDowell says he will still consider players who may not yet have had the chance to come forward for consideration . |
| 19 | This is designed for those applicants who may not necessarily possess any of the qualifications usually presented by mature students , but who show evidence of appropriate achievement either in a related professional field or through other types of intellectual endeavour . |
| 20 | The mother 's offer to cook the lunch may be a reassuring sign of the familiar to her son who may not long have departed from the parental home . |
| 21 | To this must be added the nature of the claimants themselves who may not fully comprehend the mechanics of such an appeal process . |
| 22 | The coherence , the progression , one can argue , lies in the eye of the curriculum planner rather than that of the individually different children who experience it haphazardly , often guided into a general context by the pastoral strength of their form tutor who may not always see the whole picture themselves . |
| 23 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 24 | The answers provided by the ECJ will influence the degree of tolerance extended to women who may not always wish to or may not be able to control their fertility and yet are capable of combining paid work and motherhood if given the chance |
| 25 | Among ERA stockists — who may not always have it on every day — are the Bon Accord and Tennent 's Bar in Glasgow ; the Auld Hoose , Kinghorn ; the Woodside Inn , Blairgowrie ; and Betty Nicols , Kirkcaldy . |
| 26 | The cultural baggage which any social group , tribe , or institution such as the police acquires over time can thus be translated to reveal just what sustains it , and furthermore reveal what the society itself may not even have understood . |
| 27 | Excuse me , Lord , but parts of your planet are poisoned , although you may not yet have discovered that fact for yourselves . |
| 28 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 29 | You may not even think there is a problem at all since the words " greatest " and " largest " are synonymous in the English language . |
| 30 | You ca n't have an overdraft and you may not even have a bank account . |