Example sentences of "may [not/n't] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C. P. Snow may not have delineated the cultural divide until 1959 ; but commentators still return to Victorian England for the most potent illustrations of desiccated , materialistic science set against the life of the imagination . |
| 2 | Although building professionals may not have to manage workers in the building , this does not mean they can ignore the elements of motivation and job satisfaction . |
| 3 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 4 | Kubrick presumably thinks that scientists , engineers and astronauts are dull dogs , a perception ( or rather , opinion , since it 's often untrue ) that he may not have imparted to Clarke . |
| 5 | The early wings may not have served initially for flight . |
| 6 | Indeed , Tan not only confirms Corbett at the level of the Court of Appeal , but extends it beyond marriage into , it appears , a case of general application , an outcome which Ormrod J. may not have intended or desired . |
| 7 | In fact civil wars may not have endangered the Merovingian state to the extent that Gregory implies . |
| 8 | And you may not have realized this but these many misunderstandings can be sorted out while you 're still here to agree 'em . |
| 9 | Because , as you may , or may not have realized , this is one big number . |
| 10 | Well the men although they may not have realized they were thirteen must have been pretty stupid not to realize they were perhaps below consent age . |
| 11 | After Kissingen Alexander made Kavelin tutor to the heir to the throne , but he may not have realized the extent of the tutor 's radicalism . |
| 12 | The perspective may not have developed antagonistic elements to the extent to which , at a generalised level , it could have been a genuine challenge to extant political power , but the populism did articulate working-class interests and demands assertively and independently . |
| 13 | Kuznetsk itself may not have developed , but in the Altai mountains to the south-east of the town , metallic ores including copper , silver-lead and gold had been found . |
| 14 | Calves in this category may not have developed a strong immunity and after treatment should not be returned to the field which was the source of infection ; if this is impossible , parenteral ivermectin is the drug of choice since its residual effect prevents reinfection for a further three weeks . |
| 15 | But the caution of other princes may not have blinded their followers to the possible propaganda value of the Laudes . |
| 16 | And I admit to being guilty of one of Dewey 's charges : as an editor , I have not shared reviewers ' comments with other reviewers , and I have certainly published papers after they have received negative reviews yet may not have explained why to those reviewers who labour so hard on my behalf . |
| 17 | They may not have loved him . |
| 18 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 19 | It could be direct tax as well they may not , they 'd may not have declared er |
| 20 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 21 | While he may not have said in so any words that these encounters with the press had been an " eye-opener , he did remember that he had been sincerely treated by the Journalists courtesy and by the beneficent power of journalism in the modern world . " |
| 22 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 23 | Acheson , as acting Secretary of State , may not have gone so far ; although just before the war began , when it looked as if Moffat was going to meet Ho in Hanoi , Acheson asked him to ‘ keep in mind Ho 's clear record as agent international communism , absence evidence recantation Moscow affiliations … and support Ho receiving [ from ] French Communist Party . ’ |
| 24 | I may not have gone back to sleep but I lay awake grinning . |
| 25 | Some men may not have gone far from their original homes , but others were willing to seek their fortune at a distance : the London merchant class was recruited from every part of the country , including the far North ( 104 , pp.210–12 , 389–92 ) . |
| 26 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 27 | Though Dawson may not have masterminded this sophisticated and influential forgery , his complicity in the affair was strongly suspected . |
| 28 | Further , the authorities in a number of nuclear states have made unilateral statements of one kind or another which indicate that their nuclear weapons may not have escaped entirely from laws-of-war restraints . |
| 29 | I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place . |
| 30 | Failure to clear up a problem which is or may be legal will usually be fatal , unless the facts admit of only one answer , because it will mean that the jury may not have understood their legal duty . |