Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It follows that there can be no question of the ontological claims expressed in existential proposition being explicable in terms of attribution of certain properties to certain items which may or may not possess such properties . |
| 3 | He qualifies advocacy of leading indicators by saying that they may duplicate each other ( market share and sales , for instance ) or may not give additional lead time over conventional measures ( he cites bookings as an indicator of sales ) or do not yield reliable measures . |
| 4 | That this is the case stands , quite independently of the reasons which may have been given for not doing so in the past , reasons which may or may not appear cogent today . |
| 5 | The decline may be mental , as with the onset of Alzheimer 's disease ( senile dementia ) , or a progressive disease of the central nervous system which may or may not involve mental deterioration . |
| 6 | It is not enough that the property should be intended to be used in a manner that may or may not involve this definite and particular manner ( Pwllbach Colliery Co Ltd v Woodman [ 1915 ] AC 634 ) . |
| 7 | This means that , in translation , grammar often has the effect of a straitjacket , forcing the translator along a certain course which may or may not follow that of the source text as closely as the translator would like it to . |
| 8 | Sometimes such weeping is transformed into an erotic frenzy which may or may not refertilize powerful feelings between them . |
| 9 | And we treat emergencies , ‘ urgencies , ’ and also-rans who may or may not survive two years on a waiting list . |
| 10 | He illustrated different ways in which reading , for example , could be taught , and how some children may not be ‘ mature ’ enough to cope with a ‘ look and say ’ approach , or may not develop that way . |
| 11 | It 's not , it 's not his summing up , it 's just a point of clarification to indicate whether he may or may not accept this . |
| 12 | The Advocate Depute may or may not accept this ; he may well consult with the senior police officer in the case , the injured party if there as a witness , or in very serious cases , with the Crown office in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | These include tigers and other dangerous creatures that may or may not have material form at any given time , ghosts , as well as ‘ spirits ’ — the waterfall mara ’ that causes tuberculosis ; the tree mara ’ that kills a person 's ‘ soul ’ by breaking its neck , bringing sickness and death in a single day ; the hilltop mara ’ that twists and shrivels limbs , and so on . |
| 14 | Among the drawings Oberhuber transfers to Giorgione a group hitherto given to Giulio Campagnola — a logical step which may or may not prove correct . |
| 15 | It is , however , a puzzle to me why this should be a surprise to anyone , or should even require exhaustive research . |
| 16 | If the parents say your wife should do this or should not do that , the boy listens to his parents . |
| 17 | It 's where the mover chooses to exercise that particular right , but in so doing the mover can not , or should not introduce new material and make another speech . |
| 18 | He must or must not prosecute this man or that , nor can any police authority tell him so , the responsibility is on him , he is answerable to the law alone . |
| 19 | But the associative theory can predict that the mechanisms that normally produce acquired distinctiveness might fail to do so , or might even produce negative transfer with certain sorts of test task . |
| 20 | Section 76(2) was primarily concerned with such misconduct , but section 78 embraced circumstances which might or might not involve improper conduct on the part of the police . |
| 21 | These alliances were similar to the games of dice much favoured at the time : the marriages might or might not be successful ; they might or might not have political consequences . |
| 22 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 23 | Do we get to the stage where you know you look at the word empowerment , do you change the , the use of the word empowerment because people are saying you know well that 's jargon and all that does n't work any more or ca n't do that any more . |
| 24 | they need to , or ca n't remember third one it does n't matter . |
| 25 | If you can not afford to invest the maximum allowed each year or would rather make regular monthly savings than invest in lump sums , you can put by as little as £10 per month . |
| 26 | ‘ They may have decided that they might n't like the loss of privacy or would n't feel happy handling the money , ’ she says . |
| 27 | Furthermore , if by the nature of the goods and/or the work , any defects therein or any failure thereof to conform as aforesaid does not or would not become apparent ( despite the carrying out of any examination and/or such tests ) until after use we may reject the same even after a reasonable period of use . |
| 28 | Even those who could not , or would not derive any benefit from this advice , must be at least partly seduced by its clarity and persuasiveness . |
| 29 | In doing this it would have been helpful to include profitability or value added as the independent variable but in all countries there were many companies which did not know or would not release these figures in relation to individual products . |
| 30 | A considerable body of law has developed since then dealing with both the circumstances in which the Court will or will not award interim damages , and the principles which are to be used in assessing what level of award should be made . |