Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without it , any 100th-birthday binge in 1998 may not find New Yorkers in much of a party mood . |
| 2 | While that may not sound brilliant for the performance , it should be borne in mind that the 300E-24 saloon , weighing the best part of 500lb less and with a four-speed automatic 'box , achieved 18.8mpg while on test . |
| 3 | Again , that may not sound much but it 's more than enough to disrupt the delicate balance of different gases . |
| 4 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 5 | But that may not help much either . |
| 6 | Applying these results to the unemployment rate implies that should be randomly distributed around a mean of zero and that should not exhibit any systematic relationship with . |
| 7 | Some may not like this idea , because it veers away from established convention , but it 's quicker , plus it saves the hassle of breaking a string peg at an important moment and being left dangling , so to speak . |
| 8 | Many will therefore appear relaxed and sleepy but some may not remember much of what they were told pre-operatively and may experience disorientation , alarm , pain or occasionally confusion . |
| 9 | Some may not find suitable lodging until they get 4,500 feet up in the mountain . |
| 10 | This may not satisfy common law and equitable requirements which , as seen above , may require full disclosure . |
| 11 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 12 | This may not strike some of you as unusual but in my area silver coins rarely come from the ground in their natural colour ; they are usually black or slightly grey . |
| 13 | If only one household appeals this may not carry much weight , but if several of us do , and give similar grounds for the appeal , then we stand a better chance of succeeding . |
| 14 | While this may not create such serious problems if the dog is a small Jack Russell terrier , a larger dog could quite easily knock someone over and cause serious injury . |
| 15 | This may not seem relevant in the light of Stuart 's subsequent death , but let me assure you it is . |
| 16 | To Western eyes , this may not seem extraordinary . |
| 17 | This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication . |
| 18 | In the short run this may not seem important but complications can easily arise . |
| 19 | ‘ All of this may not seem important to you , but in history who is to say where understanding of a particular series of events starts ? |
| 20 | This may not sound much but it is equivalent , for example , to about 400 sq cm of cloth or 50 g of bone . |
| 21 | In many cases , where the settlor is domiciled outside the United Kingdom , this may not have serious tax consequences if the nominees hold non-UK assets . |
| 22 | N.B. While every effort is made to teach each of the courses listed as available for the taught postgraduate degrees in the Faculty of Law there are circumstances in which this may not prove possible . |
| 23 | This may not include positive valuation of black people or different ethnic backgrounds . |
| 24 | Our responsibility is to provide you with the holiday we confirm , and this may not include special facilities which you request but which we can not guarantee . |
| 25 | This ought not to present any problems , although it is probably a good idea to emphasise the importance of the child 's language and to try to reduce any anxiety or embarrassment that adults might feel at the prospect of being recorded . |
| 26 | This should not present any major difficulties in the context of computers , although a dating agency which wanted to use a service mark " COMPUTADATE " but did not have a computer might fall into this category . |
| 27 | Where assets are transferred between members of the same capital gains tax group , this should not realise any chargeable gain or allowable loss ( see s171 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 28 | but this should not cause any problems . |
| 29 | This should not cause any problems . |
| 30 | There is little point in making light of the enormity of the task ahead , but this should not discourage those teachers with the vision and determination to continue the fight for a structure that encourages integration . |