Example sentences of "or may [adv] [verb] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | This interaction may or may not achieve a successful conclusion for both sides depending on their level of skill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | some words or acts are ambiguous and may or may not constitute a dismissal or resignation . |
| 6 | Individual observers may or may not accept a particular observation statement . |
| 7 | Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today , as G. C. Williams has remarked , but who cares ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |