Example sentences of "may not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Northern Ireland new drivers already have to display an ‘ R ’ ( for restricted ) plate and may not exceed 45mph for one year after passing their test . |
| 2 | You may not choose undergravel filtration . |
| 3 | But Mr Bond was vague on details , because the rules of the race are that once a boat has started , it may not make contact except with officials until the event is over . |
| 4 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 5 | They have not chosen the new family and they may not feel love or even liking for the new partner . |
| 6 | His programme — a heady mix of big spending and big cutting — may not cure Brazil 's inflation-fevered economy , slay the recession or win back the faith of foreign creditors . |
| 7 | That may not bother AXA , providing it is the dominant shareholder . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's face it — he may not want help of any sort . |
| 9 | Glowing report may not avert closure of Dutch primate centre |
| 10 | So , although the hon. Member for Chislehurst feels that he may not achieve headlines in the newspapers , I feel that he will . |
| 11 | You may not drink alcohol on ES premises unless authorised by your manager in special circumstances , for example , office parties . |
| 12 | They may not reach maturity for several years . |
| 13 | Some of those universities who do demand a dissertation may not deposit copies with the British Library , and may not even have a copy available for inter-library loan . |
| 14 | An even lower profile is provided by teachers who may not set foot in the classroom at all but who may spend considerable periods of time in discussion with colleagues on ways in which the curriculum can be made more accessible to all children in the class , including the least able . |
| 15 | There may also be a place for preserving a useful gall bladder in young patients with solitary or few stones , who may not reform stones . |
| 16 | Some of these regulations may not promote efficiency but be justified on paternalistic grounds : workers are held not to be the best judges of their own interests and so are prevented by law from taking risks they would voluntarily undertake for money . |
| 17 | But all may not go Sir James 's way . |
| 18 | Later writers , even those sympathetic to Antal 's thesis , have admitted that the argument about class conflict in the period was exaggerated , but this does not exclude the possibility that an equally unexpected approach may not throw light on some apparently exhausted topic . |
| 19 | To avoid interrupting the user while engaged in some other activity ( which may or may not involve LIFESPAN ) , each user 's mail is accumulated until it is convenient for the user to inspect and/or print the messages . |
| 20 | The omission of the word ‘ allow ’ means that the employer may not deduct damages from monies otherwise due to the contractor . |
| 21 | The Housing Corporation or their related housing associations may or may not favour schemes in rural areas ( to date , they generally have not ) , and therefore their attitudes , rules and regulations can all influence the chances of a rural resident of obtaining adequate housing in the correct location . |
| 22 | But he said : ‘ The fans may not think Ian 's the best man for the job but if they lay off him for a bit then he might get it right for them . ’ |
| 23 | The obligation does not extend , however , to cover all information which is given to or required by the employee while in his employment , and in particular may not cover information which is only " confidential " in the sense that an unauthorised disclosure of such information to a third party while the employment subsisted would be a clear breach of the duty of good faith . |
| 24 | The local variation may not represent information at all for , as Figure 5. 14 clearly shows , some high-frequency noise in the form of horizontal scan line patterns may be present on an image , distracting the user and rendering him or her less capable of recognizing underlying trends . |
| 25 | 1 A filename can be up to 8 characters long ; 2 A filename may not contain spaces and most punctuation marks , except hyphens , round brackets and a few others ; 3 A filename may be typed in using either lower or upper case letters ; 4 Every file on the same disk must have a different filename ; 5 Every file , wherever it is stored , should have a different filename . |
| 26 | This may not do justice to the proper degree of personal and professional self-regard which is expected of a head . |
| 27 | They consist in increments of information , which may or may not modify attitudes which may or may not modify behaviour ’ . |
| 28 | They consist in increments of information , which may or may not modify attitudes which may or may not modify behaviour ’ . |
| 29 | Seleskovitch ( 1978 ) perhaps encompasses both Namy and Pergnier in what she terms the ‘ keyhole ’ principle : the fact that language meaning through translation may not convey message meaning and the corollary that message meaning is expressed through different salient characteristics . |
| 30 | The report comes out strongly against the imposition of trade sanctions against countries on environmental grounds : in an implicit reference to the recent US action against tuna imports from Mexico [ see ED 55 ] , the report says , " a country may not restrict imports of a product solely because it originates in a country whose environmental policies are different . " |