Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | According to FSP scholars , restrictions on word order in various languages result in a linear arrangement that may or may not coincide with the interpretative arrangement of an utterance . |
| 32 | Those who are not eligible to claim benefits , therefore , may or may not register — in either event , they will not now be counted as being officially unemployed . |
| 33 | ‘ I 'll give you your letter back , miss — unread , ’ the police-sergeant told Rosalind , with a grin , ‘ but I 'd like to keep the envelope , please , because it 's got a nice glossy surface and the man your sister saw stealing bulbs has left two lovely big fingerprints on it , which may or may not enable us to find out who he is , but will certainly prove whether the gardener who was sacked as the thief is innocent . |
| 34 | Among other quincentenary revelries you may or may not want to get involved in are : jousting at Hever Castle , Tudor music at Kenwood and a pageant at Hedingham Castle . |
| 35 | When a complaint is made to the Commission , the Commission may or may not want to send a copy of the complaint to the other party . |
| 36 | Kenneth Branagh may or may not make a convincing Hamlet , or Henry V , but his interpretation is unlikely to be dissected by an audience of Scandinavian princelings or British monarchs : when it comes to imagining how such exotic beasts behave , the performer has a head start on his audience . |
| 37 | For an artist to travel is to set out on a visual adventure which may or may not end in fulfilment . |
| 38 | They may or may not choose to express their awareness of themselves to another person . |
| 39 | Control over prices and incomes is something which the government may or may not choose to implement in any period . |
| 40 | ( This type of motion is in the borderland that one may or may not choose to call turbulent , but it shows sufficient of the characteristics of turbulence for the present purpose . ) |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | For example , the government may or may not attach importance to local unemployment when industries with a heavy geographical concentration are allowed to go under all at once . |
| 43 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |
| 44 | As for the objects posited in individual experiences , they may or may not exist , and they may or may not be ontologically numerically distinct . |
| 45 | Whatever differences may or may not exist , it is erring on the side of arrogance to suggest that they are petty . |
| 46 | A people may or may not identify itself with the dominant culture . |
| 47 | ‘ Moreover , this class or fraction in charge of the state may or may not identify itself with the ruling class or fraction in the political scene ’ ( Poulantzas 1973 , p. 335 ) . |
| 48 | The tendency to leave paid employment at or even before the age of eligibility for state pension may or may not continue into the future . |
| 49 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 50 | More news that may or may not comfort . |
| 51 | A goal may or may not be scored ; the abbot may or may not admit the refugee from justice . |
| 52 | It may or may not resolve on to the note it temporarily replaces . |
| 53 | It may or may not resolve America 's awesome economic problems , but there can be little denying its radicalism . |
| 54 | These new relationships may or may not affect the physical arrangement of the structure or artefact being designed . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | It could so happen that slight bile acid malabsorption may or may not affect bile acid synthesis . |
| 58 | That every person is an end in himself or herself is related to the fact that the only thing which is good without qualification and in all circumstances is a good will , something which everyone has the potential to be , whatever talents or gifts of fortune they may or may not possess . |
| 59 | Finally , there are the identifiable skills which they may or may not possess , such as numeracy , computing , communications and foreign languages , which to some extent cut across different degree subjects , and may be acquired on the growing number of ‘ employment skills ’ courses in higher education . |
| 60 | It follows that there can be no question of the ontological claims expressed in existential proposition being explicable in terms of attribution of certain properties to certain items which may or may not possess such properties . |