Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This interaction may or may not achieve a successful conclusion for both sides depending on their level of skill . |
| 3 | Individual observers may or may not accept a particular observation statement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
| 6 | It was rather like working out the details of one of her plots : circumstances capable of more than one interpretation ; actions which might or might not be innocent ; individuals who might or might not have a genuine motive , the means and opportunity to commit the crime . |
| 7 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 8 | The form includes a declaration to be completed according to whether a survivor of the buyers can or can not give a valid receipt for purchase monies . |
| 9 | Postwar economic growth , especially in the past decade of celebration of free enterprise and markets , has generated a more or less universal acquisitiveness , and it is far from evident that in circumstances in which the desires which have been aroused can not be gratified , or their pursuit breeds disillusionment , socialism , historically grounded in the labour movement , does or can now provide a new direction . |
| 10 | A WARNING against making telephone bookings for ‘ bargain ’ cruises with companies that may not to have a single seaworthy vessel was issued to charge card customers yesterday . |
| 11 | A WARNING against making telephone bookings for ‘ bargain ’ cruises with companies that may not to have a single seaworthy vessel was issued to charge card customers yesterday . |
| 12 | We also found an independent correlation between second line treatment and increased LTB 4 concentrations that may either reflect a pharmacological effect or a correlation with disease activity . |
| 13 | One is that academic research should pluck the fruits of the contemporary political agenda and lend credibility to vogue and vague notions that may fleetingly assume a high profile , reify concepts that are of the moment and endow them with the status of real analytical phenomena . |
| 14 | British patients wait longer than most of their European neighbours to be seen by a hospital doctor , and for many the wait is not just weeks but months — months that may potentially make a great difference to their condition , as German et al show ( p 429 ) . |
| 15 | This month 's competition is to suggest a sculpture that might plausibly symbolise a united Europe , and explain why in not more than twenty words . |
| 16 | Small schools that might not need a full-time officer may be able to share one . |
| 17 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 18 | In his 12-tone music , as Schorske observes , Schoenberg confirms a ‘ faith in a hard vision of the world that could both accept a pulverised reality and posit it in an order that was not inherent in it ’ . |
| 19 | It 's Alan Buckley , a little fellow with a big dream that could yet become a startling Premier League reality . |
| 20 | You 've got nothing that would even attract a body-starved sailor ; even in your young days you were really nothing . |
| 21 | This can be annoying sometimes because jobs that would only take a little while can often take a lot longer . |
| 22 | This may already have happened in those species that will not tolerate a strange egg in the nest . |
| 23 | Some applications companies may also be enamoured by the possibility of using the NetWare Loadable Module to support demo licensing , which replaces ‘ cripple-ware ’ by a full copy of the application that will only run a limited number of times or for a limited length of time . |
| 24 | How valuable biographical information is to literary or art criticism is a question that will never receive a decisive answer ; but a commonplace observation can be made , that circumstances alter cases . |
| 25 | Erm we may of course go to Bowness next year if the circumstances change and we can manage it that will course cost a fair amount of money but that remains to be seen , we 'll have to wait and see how the club progresses during the year whether we think we can do it . |
| 26 | Another chemist , Robert Bergman from the University of California in Berkeley , has made an organic derivative of iridium that can also split a carbon-hydrogen bond . |
| 27 | This is employed by animals such as frogs and grasshoppers that can not sustain a prolonged bout of fleeing . |
| 28 | In much of his fiction , early and late , Waugh turns from comedy to the haunting thought of a lost Eden ; and in a nation that had once been the first industrial civilisation that can only mean a pastoral world . |
| 29 | However , it is plain that the speaker of English , although he performs this general task reliably thousands of times a day , has no idea whatever how he does it , and may well have a healthy scepticism about proffered accounts in terms of linguistic or other rules . |
| 30 | They include such things as stock control , critical path analysis , and organiser programs — and may well have a major role to play in mathematics learning in the future . |