Example sentences of "or [modal v] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any event , the argument makes a disproportionate claim , or may even involve a non sequitur . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Each college of education has its own particular theory and philosophy of education and may or may not influence the trainee teacher . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A goal may or may not be scored ; the abbot may or may not admit the refugee from justice . |
| 7 | These new relationships may or may not affect the physical arrangement of the structure or artefact being designed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This interaction may or may not achieve a successful conclusion for both sides depending on their level of skill . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | if choreographers wish to make their design more interesting they should attempt to give each step and pose some distinctive quality or unusual place in the design , which may or may not break the old conventions . |
| 13 | Where the third party act is negligent , it may or may not break the chain of causation . |
| 14 | Furthermore , there is a wide band of acid secretory rates where an individual may or may not bear an ulcer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This may or may not include the present health promotion and education work of health educators as we now understand it . |
| 19 | some words or acts are ambiguous and may or may not constitute a dismissal or resignation . |
| 20 | Thus prayer became seen not as formulated exercise , which may or may not concentrate the mind , but as a state of consciousness . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Individual observers may or may not accept a particular observation statement . |
| 23 | Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today , as G. C. Williams has remarked , but who cares ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 26 | Global warming or any of the thousand other worries that come under the environmental heading may or may not have a sound scientific basis , but subjective judgement is still required to determine what priority to give them , and what rules , actions and expenditure are justified to relieve them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This is the main appeal of religion to the vast majority of believers , who may or may not have the ‘ oceanic ’ feeling of the more mystically inclined . |
| 30 | And may or may not have the resolution , the constancy , so to do . |