Example sentences of "or may [not/n't] [vb infin] to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 E. M. WELLINGS objects to the inconsistencies over what a bowler may or may not do to the ball
3 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 .
4 Monotype said yesterday it had received an approach ‘ which may or may not lead to an offer ’ from Mirror Group Newspapers .
5 Bad driving may or may not lead to an accident , depending on the chance conjunction of other factors and other people 's behaviour .
6 These impairments may or may not lead to functional disability , resulting in a handicap .
7 The Business is constantly engaged in negotiations which may or may not lead to a contract .
8 The feeling is , rather , that a certain genetic vulnerability is inherited which may or may not lead to schizophrenia .
9 There is no requirement to name the potential offeror , and the announcement may simply be that the talks may or may not lead to an offer being made .
10 ( c ) following an approach to the board of the target company , which may or may not lead to an offer , the primary responsibility lies with the board of the target , which must accordingly keep a close watch on its share price .
11 Readers should note that a warning announcement ( which may be an announcement that the target is having talks which may or may not lead to an offer ) or a temporary suspension of listing ( pending clarification of the position ) may be required .
12 These may or may not progress to cervical cancer .
13 Here , this view becomes converted into the argument that the refusal of treatment may not have been a rational decision or may not appear to others to have been so .
14 Does it apply to a public utility which may or may not appear to be similar to a local government ?
15 A force fit will touch all four sides but may or may not reach to the bottom .
16 During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions .
17 According to the type of enterprise chosen , certain formalities may or may not have to be carried out , those participating in the finance of the company may or may not be protected by limited liability , and the potential growth and financial resources of the enterprise may also be determined .
18 Such statements , estimates and projections reflect various assumptions made by the Shareholders and by the management of the Company concerning anticipated results , which assumptions may or may not prove to be correct .
19 Trusts arise not only by a direct expression of intention but also by an inference or implication which may or may not correspond to any actual intention .
20 Whatever view is taken of this analysis , and it will be discussed more fully below , it seems to state quite clearly that the determination of sex is a matter for lawyers and courts ; that the law , in other words , must establish methods for determining sex which may or may not correspond to medical opinion .
21 They see the landscape as being formed by ‘ dreamings ’ , which came into the material world at so-called ‘ waterholes ’ , which may or may not correspond to an actual waterhole .
22 The character of this conservation/transformation effect may or may not correspond to the intentions of certain of the forces involved .
23 Perception is not conceived as a direct grasping of an occurrence here but rather as the means by which the perceiver obtains a resulting impression which may or may not correspond to what actually happened .
24 " Groups " , then , are creations of the speaker and may or may not correspond to " groups " which would be identified by sociologists or anthropologists : in the words of Benedict Anderson ( 1983 ) in a related context , they are " imagined communities " .
25 Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle , which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2 : ‘ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho , and the men of Jericho fought against you … ’
26 The clearing house may or may not belong to the exchange , but it is the counterparty to all exchange based futures and options contracts .
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