Example sentences of "or [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remit of the training scheme and those responsible for it may end at the transition point to operational activity or may continue in those periods of work regarded as a continuation of training and supervised as such . |
| 2 | Indexing may be conducted manually or may rely to varying extents upon the facilities for the manipulation and ordering of data offered by the computer . |
| 3 | However , in some cases it can be fatal , or may lead to permanent handicap such as deafness or brain damage . |
| 4 | Sometimes , the estate agent 's particulars are not very explicit about what is included and what is not , and in any event , sellers may change their minds , or may throw in certain items such as carpets and curtains in the course of the negotiations to settle a price . |
| 5 | The Arbitrators may call any relevant person to give evidence , or may ask for further written evidence . |
| 6 | Some patients may not have friends or relatives able to give them support at home , or may live in unsuitable accommodation . |
| 7 | Silica may be derived from natural sources or may come from water-treatment chemicals or detergent mixtures . |
| 8 | FENDER Stratocaster , 1969 , refinished red , rosewood neck , no trem , £550 or may swap for good acoustic . |
| 9 | This information may confirm existing candidates ( excitatory connections ) , or may conflict with existing candidates ( inhibitory connections ) . |
| 10 | Otherwise there is a danger that dissonance may be out of place , or be excessive for the context , or may occur at unexpected moments in a different harmonic mood . |
| 11 | As far as acquisition of language is concerned , it seems clear that reinforcement , casual observation , and natural inquisitiveness ( coupled with a strong tendency to imitate ) are important factors , as is the remarkable capacity of the child to generalise , hypothesise and ‘ process information ’ in a variety of very special and apparently highly complex ways which we can not yet describe or begin to understand , and which may be largely innate , or may develop through some sort of learning or through maturation of the nervous system . |
| 12 | Manners change , and the verdict must ultimately rest on the jury 's sense of what their own community would or should tolerate on environmental grounds at a particular moment in social history . |
| 13 | Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) . |
| 14 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |
| 15 | No hard and fast rules governed the setting up and running of the joint authorities , which could simply go for post-sharing and joint-buying or could opt for combined contracting . |
| 16 | The United States , the Soviet Union and other leading member states , all adhered to 242 , disagreeing only over whether Israel should withdraw completely or could insist on minor border rectifications . |
| 17 | They took from it what they felt they could handle — or wanted to handle , or could put to some use — and rejected the rest . |
| 18 | For several hundred years , the ‘ Debatable Land ’ was largely uninhabited and to keep it that way , in 1551 , a proclamation was issued jointly by the two nations , to the effect that : ‘ All Englishmen and Scottishmen after this proclamation is made are , and shall be , free to rob , burn , spoil , slay , murder and destroy , all and every such person or persons , their bodies , buildings , goods and cattle as do remain or shall inhabit upon any part of the said debatable land . |
| 19 | When they are authorised , whether generally or in relation to a particular allotment , the company may resolve by special resolution that section 89(1) shall not apply to a specified allotment under that authority or shall apply with such modifications as are specified in the resolution . |
| 20 | if the other party shall commit any act of bankruptcy , shall have a receiving order made against it , shall make or negotiate for any composition or arrangement with or assignment for the benefit of its creditors or , if the other party being a body corporate shall present a petition or have a petition presented by a creditor for its winding up or shall enter into any liquidation ( other than for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation ) , shall call any meeting of its creditors , shall have a receiver of all or any to its undertakings or assets appointed , shall be deemed to be unable to pay its debts , or shall cease to carry on business |
| 21 | If piece-rates were lowered in an attempt to boost output then presumably workers would take other jobs , or would switch to another merchant . |
| 22 | I have no doubt that a brilliant article will appear but I am not at all fooled that someone of your peculiar talents would either be asked or would agree to such an easy exercise . |
| 23 | Such orbits will either be symmetric ( i.e. be their own image under the symmetry ) or will occur in symmetric pairs , each of which is taken to the other by the symmetry . |
| 24 | A state may declare that , provided there is reciprocity , it will make no charge for the services necessary for executing letters rogatory or will accept in complete satisfaction of the cost of such services either the fixed amount mentioned above or some other amount . |
| 25 | These can be deposited on textiles as the hydroxides or can combine with fatty acids to give metal soaps , which cause staining that is difficult to remove . |
| 26 | It allows the psychologist to determine whether the subject has detected a change in a stimulus or can discriminate between two stimuli . ) |