Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [coord] may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 2 | Seekers after Alpine charm may or may not be content with the neo-Tyrolean style of Vail ; they may or may not adapt to the Wild West clapboard houses of resuscitated mining towns such as Breckenridge . |
| 3 | I do not believe that it is entirely their fault , because they almost certainly have producers and controllers who tell them what they may or may not discuss . |
| 4 | They may or may not choose to express their awareness of themselves to another person . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They may or may not be articulated in formal jargon or ‘ in languages ’ which restrict their currency and mark off the professional status or their practitioners , as in medicine and the law . |
| 7 | They may or may not be conscious of their envy , but it will affect their marriage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Unlike true appendages , processes of the body-wall are by no means invariably represented by embryonic counterparts ; they may or may not be segmentally arranged , they may be originally paired or unpaired , and more than a single pair is sometimes borne on a segment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There are only two varieties of western male who routinely and deliberately display what they may or may not have been born with ( rumours of radiator hoses and sockfuls of sand abound ) and they are the matador and the heavy rock 'n' roller . |
| 12 | As for the objects posited in individual experiences , they may or may not exist , and they may or may not be ontologically numerically distinct . |
| 13 | As for the objects posited in individual experiences , they may or may not exist , and they may or may not be ontologically numerically distinct . |
| 14 | Erm and it 's sort of erm features that are expressed er like intelligent and then intelligent er it reveals to what extent subjects perceive speakers in a particular language as having desirable or undesirable traits with which they may or may not wish to identify . |
| 15 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 16 | The contents of the two may or may not be the same , just as they may or may not be the same in other members of the species . |
| 17 | In this they may or may not be correct , empirically , and they may or may not be theorizing in the most fruitful manner , but the very structure of the approach suggests an ambiguity about this key issue . |
| 18 | In this they may or may not be correct , empirically , and they may or may not be theorizing in the most fruitful manner , but the very structure of the approach suggests an ambiguity about this key issue . |
| 19 | It 's nothing to do with our feelings , whatever they may or may not be . |
| 20 | They might or might not ask spot the point , they may or may not answer the right questions , but you 're in a marvellous point of view , position , to actually be able to spot angles . |
| 21 | In connection with embargo dates they may or may not be useful , but in relation to ‘ off the record ’ , there 's no such thing as ‘ off the record ’ I have to tell you . |