Example sentences of "[modal v] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Levison v Farin [ 1978 ] 2 All ER 1149 it was held that it would not normally be enough " to make known the means of knowledge which may or do enable the other party to work out certain facts and conclusions " . |
| 2 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 3 | Yeah cos if you could clarify that point it might or tell the pressure we 're under . |
| 4 | I was thinking maybe next weekend I might or meet her for the day |
| 5 | ‘ Well , what Simon could or thought he could dispose of were the pictures . |
| 6 | Before discussing the effect which the judicature Acts have had in combining Law and Equity in one court , it will be convenient to note some of the branches of Law in which Equity has made important additions to the Common Law and done work which the Common Law could or did not do . |
| 7 | No uniform pattern could or did emerge , and by the 1980s the diversity had grown . |
| 8 | But sixteen was a man and when he had begun to drown as a man there was nothing they could or did do to step in and help . |
| 9 | Built in Germany , the Lakewood Acousticube is intended to be the ultimate compact amplifier for any form of electrified acoustic guitar , whether miked , piezo 'd or bugged . |
| 10 | ‘ I will or perish in the generous cause . |
| 11 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 12 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 13 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 14 | I like to get out on the road when I can or go to the studio . |
| 15 | This is partly through pupil behaviour forcing teachers to consider whether they can or wish to be merely amoral dispensers of knowledge and exam technique . |
| 16 | To what extent can or will industrialised countries moderate their demand for energy through appropriate social , economic and political policies ? |
| 17 | Do we chase the free range hens and find the eggs as best we can or do we put the hens into a battery ? |
| 18 | It is not the case that we can or do simply distinguish , in a completely neutral way , some major historical types of political system , even in the non-evolutionist manner that I have suggested ; for on one side , what is seen to be significant in the past is influenced by current concerns , and on the other side these concerns have , in any case , a very great practical importance and are bound to engage much of the attention of political thinkers . |
| 19 | Erm and and we could actually give if we if we can find some small reject ball bearings or roller bearings , then we can or reject I mean erm dead stock . |
| 20 | Having pledged that it will not raise taxes , the Government is faced with trimming corners where it can or increasing its borrowing . |
| 21 | Not everyone can or needs to excel at everything , and unless people are allowed to concentrate on what they are good at we may be wasting valuable resources . |
| 22 | There is more to be said against the probabilistic analysis of our conception of causation that can or needs to be said here . |