Example sentences of "and [modal v] they " in BNC.

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1 May their teachers be kind to them and may they find good friends to help them .
2 May their lives continue with equal joy and may they share many Happy occasions and reunions such as this with our families and friends .
3 No matter what type of filter plates is employed , it must be remembered that cichlids love to dig and should they remove the gravel down to the plate then , in effect , the filter ceases to function properly .
4 Obviously the cannon requires at least one crewman to work , and should they all be slain the machine becomes useless .
5 Sailors were not expected to undertake more than their normal duties on board ship ; should they , however , be injured as a consequence of " warlike operations " , they would be entitled to a pension or gratuity , and should they lose their lives , dependent relatives would be granted compensation .
6 Would could and should they 're going to come in quite a bit .
7 Do research assistants count as academic persons ( and should they be entitled to publish as freely as the research directors who carry contractual responsibilities for their research activities ) ?
8 Clearly , it will pose a number of problems : for example , how many young people will come forward for training in agriculture and can the industry absorb them ; is it desirable to have one overall YTS scheme for agriculture and its related industries and , if so , how will it be financed ; and what should be the content and organization of the programmes and should they take place on the farm or in the colleges , or both ?
9 In particular , what hours would be applicable to children and should they only be there if they are eating a meal or snack ?
10 Surely these workers are provided with Health and Safety equipment and should they not be made to wear them by someone in authority ?
11 These agents are unfortunately fairly easy to come by and the Iraqis have already proven themselves to be masters of er subversive acquisition , er given that they are also now fired with a certain amount of fundamentalism , and should they find their backs to the wall , that even be accelerated .
12 And might they even be combined in one person ? — is an " artistic Socrates " a possibility ?
13 Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent .
14 And could they give us any suggestions — any positive help .
15 Would there be any , and could they be photographed ?
16 In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish .
17 And could they be innocent ? .
18 And could they talk !
19 Well they phoned back and they said , can you tell your husband to take his car to National Tyres er , that insurance has sent him , and could they give him an invoice for the insurance company .
20 Do you think it would be OK to fit 9.00 x 16 tyres to improve road speed , and would they fit onto the standard wheels , which I think are 5 x 16 , or will I need wider wheels for a good fitting .
21 I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication .
22 They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight .
23 And would they believe him ?
24 What is in these and would they be of interest both to the beginner and more experienced teacher-researcher .
25 And would they want to , if she would .
26 And would they wanted to have believed it .
27 Did any News reader obtain one and would they sell me a copy or allow me to pay for a loan of a negative ?
28 And would they still get the income support after that but still at a reduced rate or not ?
29 And will they ? ’
30 How big do they grow , and will they then eat larger fish ?
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