Sentence examples for may not rate from inspiring English sources

The bookies may not rate Marseille's chances, but they've put Liverpool and Newcastle to the sword on the sward.

They may not rate Miliband personally – but that may matter a lot less than the mood of the times.

In short, the book may not rate four stars, but the review does.

As a method of scoring, they may not rate as highly in the excitement stakes as a length-of-the-field try, but they are brutally effective and proven match-winners.

When I want to commune with "Nighthawks" (1942) again, I can do so quite satisfactorily at my dentist's office, where, from a framed poster, the beaky dude and the bony dame at the wee-hours diner convey that root-canal surgery may not rate all that high on the scale of human tribulations.

History may not rate him as one of the greatest U.S. presidents, but his successes in office made his influence considerable, and, as a relative unknown who reached the highest office in the land and by integrity and will won the plaudits of the people, he has been compared to Harry Truman.

Playing a lot of violent video games may contribute to violent behavior -- it wouldn't be all that surprising if it did -- and then again, it may not: rates of adolescent violence have fallen during the same period that violent video games have become more widespread and more graphic.

But there are other, even smaller-scale films now playing in theaters that are worthy of attention -- films so modest that they may not even rate a blip on the award season radar.

Little here is shocking — the film may not be rated, but the gore is strictly PG-13 — and the denouement is unpersuasive.

Also, the reviewers in the two studies may not have rated the contents similarly.

However, PSY may not be rate-limiting in all tissues, as exemplified in transgenic potato tubers, where overexpressed lycopene β-cyclase had a dominating effect [25].