Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are lesser seas which must also be included , in particular the fifteen around the islands of the East Indian archipelago : the Sulu , Celebes and Molucca Seas , the Gulf of Tomini , the Halmahera , Ceram , Banda , Arafura ( which may or may not contain the Gulf of Carpentaria , depending on which atlas is used ) , Timor and Flores Seas , the Gulf of Boni , the Bali Sea , the Makassar Strait , the Java and Savu Seas ; and there is the Gulf of Thailand , the Strait of Malacca , the Singapore Strait and the Inland Sea of Japan . |
| 2 | Each college of education has its own particular theory and philosophy of education and may or may not influence the trainee teacher . |
| 3 | The issue may or may not be underwritten and the issuing company may or may not engage the services of a broker for advice and/or to organize the insurance of the issue . |
| 4 | A goal may or may not be scored ; the abbot may or may not admit the refugee from justice . |
| 5 | A difference in age or gender between speakers of English , for example , may or may not affect the way things are said , whereas in Urdu , such differences are always reflected . |
| 6 | A third response is to agree that as things are presently constituted females do end up with poorer spatial visualisation skills by adolescence ( which may or may not affect the learning of mathematics ) , but then claim that the reason for this outcome is differential male-female learning experiences . |
| 7 | Where the third party act is negligent , it may or may not break the chain of causation . |
| 8 | Furthermore , there is a wide band of acid secretory rates where an individual may or may not bear an ulcer . |
| 9 | Bristol offers a range of self-help therapies including a vegan diet , counselling and spiritual healing , none of which is mandatory — patients may or may not follow the treatment advised . |
| 10 | The two-tier structure under which forensic work would only be done by specialists , as envisaged in your editorial , may or may not become a reality , but it will not lessen the need for all doctors to be trained in the elements of medicolegal matters if their work brings them into contact with those in police custody . |
| 11 | Complete bones may or may not include the epiphyses and are defined as any bones that include major parts of proximal and distal ends as well as the shaft . |
| 12 | some words or acts are ambiguous and may or may not constitute a dismissal or resignation . |
| 13 | Thus prayer became seen not as formulated exercise , which may or may not concentrate the mind , but as a state of consciousness . |
| 14 | The researcher may or may not attend the group discussion , but he or she will have to evaluate the results and put them into report form , adding his or her conclusions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 17 | Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today , as G. C. Williams has remarked , but who cares ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So , although a wild horse would continually roam in search of food , a domestic horse may not , or may not have the opportunity to do so . |
| 20 | And may or may not have the resolution , the constancy , so to do . |
| 21 | It may also involve some degree of persuasion that the customer should consider purchasing the product , or should actually make the purchase . |
| 22 | He talked about using force but knew that such a step might provoke a greater crisis or might even break the loyalty of his army . |
| 23 | This might or might not suit the wishes of the Lord Warden of the Forest . |
| 24 | A developer could go ahead without applying for planning permission , or could even ignore a refusal of permission . |
| 25 | No one in racing is above ringing round for spare rides ; one great jump jockey was nicknamed ‘ Ting-a-Ling ’ because of his speed and skill in contacting trainers whose jockeys were injured or could n't do the weight or were simply out of favour . |
| 26 | We used to send floppy disks to 1,000 sites and there were lots of problems — people lost disks or could n't find the work book . |
| 27 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 28 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 29 | But ‘ the humanistic subordination of music to text , the insistence that music shall have meaning through carrying words or shall simply heighten the effect of words , is as evident in religious music as in frottola , madrigal , and chanson . |
| 30 | That , however , is very different from arguing that the introduction of PR or the demands of Charter 88 will at the very best , provide anything but the most marginal relief to those who are unemployed , without a home or ca n't pay the poll tax . |