Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who defend the kinship bond find more acceptable a situation where , say , a child may maintain an active relationship with his [ or her ] natural parents while living with foster-parents , or may even remain in contact with them after adoption . |
| 2 | Similarly , someone who is primarily in a bulimic phase of the disease may binge on lettuce or on other foodstuffs that have particularly low calorie value and weight-producing potential or may even control body weight by dramatically reducing fluid intake . |
| 3 | But in any event , the argument makes a disproportionate claim , or may even involve a non sequitur . |
| 4 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 5 | Children may be referred by teachers or parents or may even ask for help themselves . |
| 6 | Instability was greatest at periods of high sedimentation at the onset of deglaciation , when ice sheets reached or may even have extended beyond the shelf break . |
| 7 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 8 | apart from anything else er , er , er your complaint has been rather overtaken by events and , and both parties would no doubt wish to or may well wish to take further , er , but I think you 'll both agree that prospects of er let say getting any meaningful answer out of the commission by Christmas are remote . |
| 9 | So it is all the more remarkable that in France , Spain and Italy , where politicians hesitate before being less than wholeheartedly Europhile , parties have either come into government , or may soon do so , that are less enthusiastic about European union than those they replaced . |
| 10 | Depending on the length of course you choose , content may be essentially to do with financial planning or may also include health and leisure plus the social and emotional adjustments to retirement . |
| 11 | It depends on matters such as physical attributes and abilities of individuals , their monetary resources , the availability of mechanized means of transport and the appropriate infrastructure ; but it does not depend on the opportunities that may or may not present themselves as a result of moving : accessibility alone incorporates this feature ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although first found as a product of the endothelium , endothelin-immunoreactivity has been detected in a range of other cell types and tissues , which may or may not contain similar processing enzymes . |
| 14 | Leaving aside for the moment differences in personal qualities and skills , which may or may not vary with the curriculum , it would seem that graduates who can offer both expertise and ability are in the strongest employment position , those who offer either one or the other may also find a job niche , but that those who offer neither are worst off . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A Broadcasting Standards Council , to determine what the British people may or may not watch , will be run , under Lord Rees-Mogg , by a bishop , a headmaster , a psychologist , an educationalist , a retired Labour MP and a former television newsreader . |
| 18 | It may or may not go on to say " produced in conjunction with brand X or company Y " . |
| 19 | ‘ You have just told me what patients with heart disease may or may not do . |
| 20 | E. M. WELLINGS objects to the inconsistencies over what a bowler may or may not do to the ball |
| 21 | So you ca n't really take for granted can you that erm he may or may not do anything . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Monotype said yesterday it had received an approach ‘ which may or may not lead to an offer ’ from Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 24 | Bad driving may or may not lead to an accident , depending on the chance conjunction of other factors and other people 's behaviour . |
| 25 | These impairments may or may not lead to functional disability , resulting in a handicap . |
| 26 | A " slip " , a temporary recourse to the mood-altering substance or behaviour , may or may not lead on to a full-scale relapse . |
| 27 | The Business is constantly engaged in negotiations which may or may not lead to a contract . |
| 28 | The feeling is , rather , that a certain genetic vulnerability is inherited which may or may not lead to schizophrenia . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ( 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 . |