Example sentences of "may [conj] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid interrupting the user while engaged in some other activity ( which may or may not involve LIFESPAN ) , each user 's mail is accumulated until it is convenient for the user to inspect and/or print the messages . |
| 2 | For example , the government may or may not attach importance to local unemployment when industries with a heavy geographical concentration are allowed to go under all at once . |
| 3 | The sufferer from alcoholism may or may not hide bottles but will very rarely run out of stock altogether " because you never know when you might need to entertain someone " — All sufferers from Chemical Dependency will tend to spend scarce money on alcohol or drugs rather than on food , clothing , housing or on unpaid bills . |
| 4 | It could so happen that slight bile acid malabsorption may or may not affect bile acid synthesis . |
| 5 | They consist in increments of information , which may or may not modify attitudes which may or may not modify behaviour ’ . |
| 6 | They consist in increments of information , which may or may not modify attitudes which may or may not modify behaviour ’ . |
| 7 | It may or may not resolve America 's awesome economic problems , but there can be little denying its radicalism . |
| 8 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 9 | The Housing Corporation or their related housing associations may or may not favour schemes in rural areas ( to date , they generally have not ) , and therefore their attitudes , rules and regulations can all influence the chances of a rural resident of obtaining adequate housing in the correct location . |
| 10 | Self-mutilation , which may result in disfigurement. this usually occurs in individuals with psychotic illnesses , such as schizophrenia , and may or may not endanger life . |
| 11 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 12 | Well , yes , we can complain about their performance and we may or may not get redress via their employers . |
| 13 | Sir : One may or may not share Christopher Hill 's apprehensions about the destabilising potential of German reunification ( letter , 4 October ) . |
| 14 | Love may or may not produce happiness ; whether or not it does in the end , its primary effect is to energize . |