Example sentences of "may not [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendency to leave paid employment at or even before the age of eligibility for state pension may or may not continue into the future . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , TNCs do introduce much useable technology into the Third World , and while it may not lead to the conquest of global markets it may still have a very positive effect on industry and employment in particular countries . |
| 3 | Today , with an irresistible single behind them , OCS may or may not stand on the threshold of a wonderfully fresh new scene : they have successfully meshed the musical phenomenon of the past couple of years with a sound of their heroes , The Beatles and the Stones . |
| 4 | It may or may not result in the board of the offeror company retaining control , depending on the voting rights they control and the support they get from the enlarged body of shareholders . |
| 5 | Because there are many types of surgery the examples used may not relate to the patients you encounter on your first surgical ward . |
| 6 | Moustaches shall not extend below the vermilion border of the upper lip or the corners of the mouth and may not extend to the side more than one-quarter inch beyond the corners of the mouth … |
| 7 | But I am worried that the Alsace revival may not reach beyond the basic , honest certainly but not very exciting , supermarket wines . |
| 8 | A force fit will touch all four sides but may or may not reach to the bottom . |
| 9 | Of course , the state is not insulated from economic pressures or political demands from the working class and other groups , but this analysis suggests that it will respond to them in ways which are to its own advantage , which may not coincide with the narrowly defined interests of capital or other political forces . |
| 10 | The point is that the set of products which are socially relevant to the group-optimality calculation may not coincide with the set which are actually controlled by the firm in question . |
| 11 | According to FSP scholars , restrictions on word order in various languages result in a linear arrangement that may or may not coincide with the interpretative arrangement of an utterance . |
| 12 | Therefore , gaining resources may not depend on the logic of the case but on a number of other factors . |
| 13 | I fear you may not go in the lift . ’ |
| 14 | The landlord 's argument will be that the rent should be paid on time , but the tenant could respond that it is a fairly recent innovation for rent to be paid in advance as opposed to in arrears and , furthermore , that the landlord has the benefit of three months ' rent in advance , despite the fact that it may not arrive on the actual quarter day . |
| 15 | I may not sympathize with the bombing . |
| 16 | You may not knock over the wine , but the person sitting next to you and other members of the audience wo n't listen to your words . |
| 17 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 18 | E. M. WELLINGS objects to the inconsistencies over what a bowler may or may not do to the ball |
| 19 | Be sure to overlap the tape on itself as it may not adhere to the foam |
| 20 | There 's a further point that the effects of the policy may not strike in the first generation anyway , it may be long-term before er equalization of property has the effect and other things so these people might , might vote in their own class interest against the interest of future generations . |
| 21 | Because games may vary slightly in length you may not start at the exact time given . |
| 22 | AS LONG AGO as the 19th century , Franz Brentano argued that mind is essentially intentional , and that conscious states always require cognitively-held objects , even though these may not exist in the physical world . |
| 23 | Beware of the trap of spending time on long explanations in English on what something is. it may not exist in the other culture . |
| 24 | Seekers after Alpine charm may or may not be content with the neo-Tyrolean style of Vail ; they may or may not adapt to the Wild West clapboard houses of resuscitated mining towns such as Breckenridge . |
| 25 | Expatriates may not adapt to the culture and so live in their own world entirely separate from that of the local inhabitants . |
| 26 | He frets that , when it comes to the point , the requirements for SATs may not tally with the requirements for GCSE ; that he may have to regroup the whole school to align pupils according to their ability rather than their age . |
| 27 | A proxy may not vote at the same election for more than two people unless the proxy is a close relative ie husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild of the people he or she is voting for . |
| 28 | Many people may not vote on the basis of a judgement of the party manifestos . |
| 29 | Leaving aside for the moment differences in personal qualities and skills , which may or may not vary with the curriculum , it would seem that graduates who can offer both expertise and ability are in the strongest employment position , those who offer either one or the other may also find a job niche , but that those who offer neither are worst off . |
| 30 | Thus , we may be helped to avoid the trap of ruling out as irrelevant , even before we start , whatever forms of knowledge may not fit into the currently accepted general scientific approach to reality as a whole . |