Example sentences of "may [not/n't] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may include a leader model who is armed in the same way as the rest of the detachment , but the detachment may not have a champion . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , what constitutes reasonable time is n't clearly defined under British law , and if a court thinks you 've taken too long to register your complaint , you may not have a case . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr ’ Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on , he does have a leg to stand on . |
| 4 | We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element . |
| 5 | USL 's other stockholders , Sun , ICL , Amdahl , Fujitsu , Motorola , NEC , Oki , Toshiba , Olivetti , Tata and 3i , may not have a say in what eventually happens or whether Novell takes it all . |
| 6 | Of course , you may not have a choice about where you live , particularly if you are a student in halls of residence , or a disabled person with special requirements . |
| 7 | But if he decides to go the Hollywood route , he may not have a choice . |
| 8 | But he may not have a home to go back to . |
| 9 | A Mob of Netters may have a Boss armed with a club , they may not have a Boss armed with a net . |
| 10 | That it may not have a name . |
| 11 | Although it is early days and the team will not be reporting back until March , what is already becoming clear to it is that , unless small firms are encouraged to continue training chartered accountants , the smaller end of the profession may not have a future at all . |
| 12 | Your national side may not have a future themselves by that time if they 've lost every game in between . |
| 13 | Mr Denton went on to explain that the traditional ‘ heavy ’ railway may not have a future except for journeys between the main population centres . |
| 14 | Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today , as G. C. Williams has remarked , but who cares ? |
| 15 | Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence . |
| 16 | I may not have a lot to give but what I 've got I 'll give to you |
| 17 | Employers need to bear in mind that the employee 's spouse may not have a car . |
| 18 | But while the latter may not have a material impact on competition , they do nevertheless contribute to an incremental drift of decision-making power to a steadily diminishing number of companies . |
| 19 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 20 | As I said we may not have a set up but if we have n't we 'll set one now . |
| 21 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 22 | Spanish , Portuguese , Arabic and Japanese are the most useful languages , Sir Alfred says , because they ‘ have a wide catchment area containing many decision-makers who may not have a command of English ’ . |
| 23 | This finding , albeit in very small numbers , would seem to suggest that reduced prostacyclin production may not have a role in the development of microvascular disease . |
| 24 | ‘ If she may n't have a dram , ’ James said , ‘ What might I tempt her with ? |