Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are lesser seas which must also be included , in particular the fifteen around the islands of the East Indian archipelago : the Sulu , Celebes and Molucca Seas , the Gulf of Tomini , the Halmahera , Ceram , Banda , Arafura ( which may or may not contain the Gulf of Carpentaria , depending on which atlas is used ) , Timor and Flores Seas , the Gulf of Boni , the Bali Sea , the Makassar Strait , the Java and Savu Seas ; and there is the Gulf of Thailand , the Strait of Malacca , the Singapore Strait and the Inland Sea of Japan . |
| 2 | Each college of education has its own particular theory and philosophy of education and may or may not influence the trainee teacher . |
| 3 | A goal may or may not be scored ; the abbot may or may not admit the refugee from justice . |
| 4 | A difference in age or gender between speakers of English , for example , may or may not affect the way things are said , whereas in Urdu , such differences are always reflected . |
| 5 | A third response is to agree that as things are presently constituted females do end up with poorer spatial visualisation skills by adolescence ( which may or may not affect the learning of mathematics ) , but then claim that the reason for this outcome is differential male-female learning experiences . |
| 6 | Where the third party act is negligent , it may or may not break the chain of causation . |
| 7 | Bristol offers a range of self-help therapies including a vegan diet , counselling and spiritual healing , none of which is mandatory — patients may or may not follow the treatment advised . |
| 8 | Thus prayer became seen not as formulated exercise , which may or may not concentrate the mind , but as a state of consciousness . |
| 9 | The researcher may or may not attend the group discussion , but he or she will have to evaluate the results and put them into report form , adding his or her conclusions . |
| 10 | So , although a wild horse would continually roam in search of food , a domestic horse may not , or may not have the opportunity to do so . |
| 11 | And may or may not have the resolution , the constancy , so to do . |
| 12 | It may also involve some degree of persuasion that the customer should consider purchasing the product , or should actually make the purchase . |
| 13 | He talked about using force but knew that such a step might provoke a greater crisis or might even break the loyalty of his army . |
| 14 | No one in racing is above ringing round for spare rides ; one great jump jockey was nicknamed ‘ Ting-a-Ling ’ because of his speed and skill in contacting trainers whose jockeys were injured or could n't do the weight or were simply out of favour . |
| 15 | We used to send floppy disks to 1,000 sites and there were lots of problems — people lost disks or could n't find the work book . |
| 16 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 17 | But ‘ the humanistic subordination of music to text , the insistence that music shall have meaning through carrying words or shall simply heighten the effect of words , is as evident in religious music as in frottola , madrigal , and chanson . |
| 18 | That , however , is very different from arguing that the introduction of PR or the demands of Charter 88 will at the very best , provide anything but the most marginal relief to those who are unemployed , without a home or ca n't pay the poll tax . |
| 19 | The campaign works indirectly by rumour to frighten people , and whatever they can or ca n't prove the threat is carried by word of mouth and claimants run for cover . |
| 20 | Were there any times when you would n't work in the shop or would n't cut the meat ? |
| 21 | As we have seen , the trade union movement either could not or would not show the forbearance required , in the national interest , of a great and powerful institution ; nor , for that matter that sense of enlightened self-interest which would have told it that the morality of forbearance was its own best policy . |
| 22 | Return to the bad old ways , elect separately a Chamber and a Senate , then bring them together at Versailles in a National Assembly which would or would not modify the Constitution of 1875 . |
| 23 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 24 | It concerns the inherent power which any court of justice must possess to prevent misuse of its procedure in a way which , although not inconsistent with the literal application of its procedural rules , would nevertheless be manifestly unfair to a party to litigation before it , or would otherwise bring the administration of justice into disrepute among right-thinking people . |
| 25 | The final two initiatives were to continue in the years ahead , but the other three had reached or would shortly reach the end of their trajectory . |
| 26 | But as you ca n't or wo n't recognise the truth even when it 's told you , there 's really no point in continuing this conversation . ’ |
| 27 | Whatever you do , do n't make a fuss when she has an accident or wo n't use the potty . |
| 28 | Those who lose or can not meet the urge become ‘ defeated ’ , become dependent , destructive , or , if not apathetic , at least dismissive . |
| 29 | Contractors are either not interested because the job is too small or can not undertake the work for weeks . |
| 30 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |