Example sentences of "or he may [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 A manufacturer can delegate some or all of his overseas operations to an export house or he may delegate parts of the actual selling task to the export house .
2 Where the demised property consists of part only of a building the draftsman may either include sanitary facilities in each demise or he may grant each tenant a right to use communal facilities .
3 He may not exercise his rights or he may shirk his duties , but he can not forgo them .
4 The student may seek escape in passivity and make only perfunctory efforts to learn the target language ; or he may express antagonism by making no effort to adopt the correct pronunciation or by a deliberate use of native language patterns in the target language .
5 Perhaps , too , someone may lack the power to defend his rights , or he may go too far in his own defence .
6 A worker may be required to live in tied accommodation as a condition of employment or he may make his own decision to do so .
7 This is caused by : homogeneity of task , ie lack of variety emotions caused by frustration or discouragement a rate of learning which is too fast or too slow Fatigue may reduce the effort the student is putting into learning or he may fix his attention on particular elements of the work to be learned rather than on the work as a whole .
8 That is an extreme case but a marketing man may subtly resist the plan to move from premium pricing to commodity pricing , or he may sabotage the plan to squeeze more profit out of old products rather than spend money on new ones .
9 Besides , it is a cardinal principle of law that an innocent party may choose to accept repudiation and sue for damages for breach of contract , or he may choose to refuse to accept the repudiation so that the contract will remain in full effect .
10 Or he may pass the information to a non-member of the exchange , who then deals through another broker or in the over-the-counter ( OTC ) market .
11 Or he may marry money .
12 Whatever a non-teaching staff member 's job , she or he may contribute in a positive way to its success .
13 On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage .
14 Or he may try to trade in that idea for something he might think would be almost as valuable , the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany .
15 Senator Ricardo may enact such a bill so as to increase his chance of re-election , or he may oppose it because he favours public spending on ideological grounds .
16 The building owner may either employ a builder to carry out the work or opening up and eradication , or he may call in one of the numerous specialist firms to deal with the attack .
17 He may not have lost his ability to balance , or he may have relearned it through his therapy sessions .
18 Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ?
19 Or he may have an alternative up his sleeve . ’
20 He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses .
21 Or he may have an inadequate understanding of how language works and lack a terminology for talking about it .
22 " But I dare say he 's impatient , " thought Hazel , " or he may have come off worst in some scuffle over a doe and taken it hard .
23 But a man may have no son , or he may have too many among whom to share his limited lands and principles had to be modified continually to meet particular circumstances .
24 He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) .
25 Or he may have been stripped to delay any identification , I suppose .
26 For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent .
27 For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent .
28 Jim may have known the assailant or he may have entered the house either quietly or under a pretence
29 MAY RIDE : The General may ride an Elven Steed ( +3 points ) , a Monster ( see the separate Monster List for points ) , or he may ride in a two-horse chariot at a cost of +56 points .
30 MAY RIDE : The Battle Standard Bearer may ride an Elven Steed ( +3 points ) , a Monster ( see the separate Monster List for points ) , or he may ride in a two-horse chariot at a cost of +56 points .
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