Example sentences of "[modal v] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a while Maxim asked : ‘ Why should this chap Magill tell us anything tomorrow ? ’ |
| 32 | Should this scenario happen , crucial to its success would be changing the image of the area , and a key part in this is being played by the city 's successful bid for the World Student Games in 1990 . |
| 33 | Why should this topic matter ? |
| 34 | Why should this female start putting the frighteners on him now , after all this time ? |
| 35 | ‘ Yet why should this condition be ? |
| 36 | ‘ Should this estate be built it will bring nothing but trouble to the area . |
| 37 | What then , should this stance be ? |
| 38 | The pope 's tribunal was the highest tribunal for all , but why should this tribunal not be extended in practice by the delegation of cases that came to it from all over Europe to judges , acting on behalf of the pope , in the countries from which the appeals came ? |
| 39 | The mind rather boggles at what might happen should this expedition not be a success — and the odds are not all that good that it will bring back the Bledisloe Cup from Australia or a one-test rubber win from South Africa . |
| 40 | The amendment stated that the USA would attempt to dissuade any NATO ally from making force reductions , and that , should this attempt fail , the USA would seek to persuade other NATO allies to compensate for the resultant shortfall in overall NATO force levels . |
| 41 | Why , then , should this book cause so much controversy ? |
| 42 | How should this disorder be interpreted in relation to a model of normal reading ? |
| 43 | Should this method fail , then you are likely to be forced to place the tablet directly into its mouth . |
| 44 | ‘ But they might this year ! ’ interrupted the secretary . |
| 45 | Might this type have been a symbol of the League : Penelope or Electra awaiting their deliverer standing for Hell as ( or Ionia ) in bonds ? |
| 46 | Who then might this victim be ? |
| 47 | What might this theme , ‘ a home that is always open ’ mean to us ? |
| 48 | The theatre has still to fill the post of artistic director — indeed interviews have not yet begun — and Mr McKeown suggested the position might this time be taken by more than one person , and remain filled for some four or five years . |
| 49 | We might this month 's edition . |
| 50 | How might this advice work out in practice ? |
| 51 | Could this machine damage your health ? |
| 52 | ( b ) Could this idea be carried over from boiler inspections to drug inspections ? |
| 53 | Could this money be used for future needs of the tables ? |
| 54 | Yet if he , just a man , could not find it in his heart to condemn his brother or the boy who had used his brother 's weaknesses to lure him to his death , how could this God of love of his childhood destroy so savagely and so arbitrarily ? |
| 55 | Could this scene be acted out every day at 4.45pm on the road out of Pinjarra ? |
| 56 | How could this man be here ? |
| 57 | But- ’ Could this man have done something to stop you reaching Person X ? |
| 58 | In two test cases the Law Lords decided that house-buyers — at least at the cheap end of the market — were entitled to damages against valuers who failed to exercise reasonable skill and care — nor could this liability be excluded by a small-print disclaimer . |
| 59 | Er , rural traffic calming , speed cameras , provision for cyclists , pedestrian are all new money with a road safety bias in it , so I think we 've done the best that we could this year . |
| 60 | But could this fantasy of genetic engineering ever become reality ? |