Example sentences of "may [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the theory of art , and there is aesthetics ; there is writing about artefacts which may or may not be categorised as art , but are in the hands of the archaeologist or the anthropologist ; and there is art appreciation . |
| 2 | However , potentially educable as a painter Schnabel may or may not be , his work is just not worthy of serious attention by anyone with a developed taste in this particular art form . |
| 3 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 4 | It seems reasonable to think that The Facts is imagined , and that it could promote a benevolent view of the literal or faithful — as opposed to the fantastically transgressive — imagination , which may or may not , in any given case , be directly concerned with the facts of the author 's own life . |
| 5 | He has travelled from the liberated past , when imagination took power , to the liberation of an interest in fact — a state which may or may not prove to have been , for Roth , partial or provisional , and which The Facts , in its totality , manages to enclose in an ironised uncertainty . |
| 6 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 7 | which were and still are a display of dances that may or may not be applicable to the plot . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 10 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 11 | The canon may or may not be oppressive : it is not inert , as Pound 's revisions of it prove . |
| 12 | These may or may not progress to cervical cancer . |
| 13 | Sir : One may or may not share Christopher Hill 's apprehensions about the destabilising potential of German reunification ( letter , 4 October ) . |
| 14 | At the same time , a new Contributions Unit , which may or may not develop into a full-blown agency , will be spun out of the existing DSS central capacity in Longbenton , Newcastle ( with people stationed in every benefit office in the land and a total staff of 7,000 ) . |
| 15 | Those may or may not lead to training or jobs but once a person registers for an interview they are taken off the jobless total . |
| 16 | The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But on the hill , crouched against a stone wall which may or may not be providing protection against wind-swept rain , such a dainty arrangement fast loses all its attraction . |
| 20 | It may or may not be true that positive control of development , the compelling of development to conform to a particular plan determined by the state , is unattainable without nationalisation . |
| 21 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 22 | The problem of fascist sympathies among the ranks of MI5 at the outset of the war is entirely ignored , as is the removal in 1940 of its founder and director , Sir Vernon Kell , which may or may not have been connected with that issue . |
| 23 | ‘ That may or may not be reality out there . |
| 24 | The author may or may not be aware of it , but he is stating a biblical principle . |
| 25 | The reply may or may not have been arrogant , but , more significantly , it carried within itself the fatality to come . |
| 26 | Monotype said yesterday it had received an approach ‘ which may or may not lead to an offer ’ from Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 27 | The lack of a licence in Barlow Clowes ' early years may or may not have made a difference to the way investors ' funds were handled during that time . |
| 28 | The YF-22 was conceived in the days of the cold war , and many of its exotic features were developed to defeat predicted Soviet advances that may or may not now materialise . |
| 29 | Just as a material body may or may not actually be moving , so a mind may or may not actually be thinking . |
| 30 | Just as a material body may or may not actually be moving , so a mind may or may not actually be thinking . |