Example sentences of "or may not be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The obese diabetic ( Ideal body weight > 120 per cent : Metropolitan Life Insurance Company , 1959 ) must be encouraged to lose weight as this has been found to have a blood-pressure-lowering effect which may or may not be related to concomitant reduction of dietary sodium ( Reisin et al , 1978 ; Tuck et al , 1981 ; Fagerberg et al , 1984 ) . |
2 | The Student Advisory and Counselling Service provides help for students with personal problems which may or may not be related to study . |
3 | The Student Advisory and Counselling Service provides help for students with personal problems , which may or may not be related to study . |
4 | In all four clustered contractions were reported , which may or may not be related to swallowing , which may be peristaltic in nature , or which develop simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus . |
5 | In all the above cases , the trustee removed from office may or may not be given his release . |
6 | In the meantime , the task for the teacher or therapist is to examine all aspects of the child 's language , using whatever devices are available , with the objective of generating an assessment which reflects both strengths and weaknesses in the three areas , and indicates the extent to which difficulties identified in each of these areas may or may not be interrelated . |
7 | As we have seen in Lecture 7 , equilibrium in the factor or output markets may not be achieved , and we have to examine in the context of a fully specified disequilibrium model whether the economy converges to an equilibrium path , which in turn may or may not be tending to a steady state . |
8 | A goal may or may not be scored ; the abbot may or may not admit the refugee from justice . |
9 | Vaginal infection which may or may not be causing symptoms . |
10 | If a relatively simple redesign of an existing product is to be carried out it will start in the appropriate box , for example that labelled design and development , and that labelled prototype/testing may or may not be invoked , depending on the confidence level that the task can be successfully carried out . |
11 | It exists in discrete pockets , is shared among the ‘ locals ’ there , and may or may not be noticed , appreciated or acknowledged by those outside the locale . |
12 | Every good game defines the parameters of what may or may not be seen as a legitimate action . |
13 | It is of course true that the work they carried out may or may not be done by a small part of some other organization but this in itself is a startling example of fragility . |
14 | Generally unschooled in the scientific method , judges have the legal duty of deciding what may or may not be presented to a jury . |
15 | As the report itself makes clear , ‘ statistical comparisons serve as a pointer only to possible differences in service efficiency which may or may not be borne out by further investigations ’ . |
16 | However , despite contact with patients between one and three times per week , the unmet needs in groups C and D suggest that certain community nurses either may not be carrying out the assessment tasks effectively or may not be reassessing clients adequately . |
17 | The 5000-word critical analysis , which may or may not be supported by graphical evidence , has also been criticised as being a test more of the candidate 's authorship than of his professional ability , and an exercise more easily tackled by the ex-full-time student than by the part-time candidate . |
18 | After the handing over of the baby contact may or may not be maintained . |
19 | As has already been described ( Chapter 4 ) , matter is composed of particles which may or may not be charged . |
20 | The selected portion is aligned with the least-significant portion of the other operand ( held in a processor register ) , and sign extension may or may not be applied ( depending on the size of the portion and the value in the selection field ) . |
21 | Your child may or may not be tested depending on whether he or she is part of a group progressing from one stage to another . |
22 | Cruelty often has a hidden sexual element which may or may not be evinced in the actual nature of the offence . |
23 | The man may or may not be earning a wage ; he may not understand the particular needs of the children . |
24 | This may or may not be joined with the rhythmic designs described in the previous section . |
25 | We 've got to be able to set out the implications of the decisions , that may or may not be made , and priorities at a given time . |
26 | Examination of the behaviour of equilibrium paths in simple models suggests that convergence to a steady state may or may not be assured . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | According to her , aggression ‘ involves the intention to hurt or emerge superior to others , does not necessarily involve physical injury ( violence ) and may or may not be regarded as being underpinned by different kinds of motives ’ . |
29 | Though there seems to be no public law right of consultation , the issue may or may not be regarded as germane , depending on other points of law in the case . |
30 | Notes can be made at this stage and possibly some rough diagrams drawn which may or may not be incorporated into the final document . |