Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [pron] [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is professional money advice still a subject creditors can afford to ignore , or should we not be moving towards full recognition and co-operation and all its implications ? |
| 2 | Should we , or should they just be rounded up and locked up ? |
| 3 | Can it be farmed intensively or should it only be reared extensively ? |
| 4 | Or might we still be awaiting the development of personal computers by some Japanese company ? |
| 5 | Or might he just be tempted to make one last attempt to lead the Labour party across the river ? |
| 6 | Or could it also be to do with conflicting concepts of femininity , both competing in the specific historical arena of élite European culture ? |
| 7 | 2 Is the product or sample small enough to slip between the pages of the magazine or can it easily be attached to the front cover ? |
| 8 | He considered the focus of the controversy to be the juridical effects of a stipulation made in favour of a third party , which he deconstructed into three questions : can a third party claim directly any such benefit or can it only be claimed through the auspices of a State party ; may the parties to the agreement amend or abolish the stipulation without the consent of the third party ; and need the third party accept the stipulation in order to be vested with the benefit in question ? 120 |
| 9 | Does God 's making of himself known have any abiding content which can be articulated , or can it merely be pointed to and fleetingly glimpsed , but not retained ? |
| 10 | However , as a practical scheme this is infeasible , since consumers have no direct incentive to reveal their benefit schedules , nor can they easily be encouraged to do so ( Green and Laffont , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Housewives can not be accused of ‘ doing nothing all day ’ ; nor can it legitimately be said that their only ‘ work ’ is ‘ creative ’ and thus intrinsically pleasurable . |
| 12 | It seems that the situation we are witnessing is neither the effect of a biological underpinning of sex roles , nor can it simply be seen as the persistence of institutional inequalities . |
| 13 | A gesture can not be regarded as the expression of an individual , as his or her creation ( because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture , belonging to nobody else ) , nor can it even be regarded as that person 's instrument ; on the contrary , it is gestures that use us as their instruments , as their bearers and incarnations . |
| 14 | Surely these workers are provided with Health and Safety equipment and should they not be made to wear them by someone in authority ? |
| 15 | And might they even be combined in one person ? — is an " artistic Socrates " a possibility ? |
| 16 | And will I then be left with a pondful of blanket weed ? |
| 17 | And will he then be rewarded for failure , like all the others , by being given a huge job in the City ? — . |
| 18 | And there was no reason to think the same would n't happen to her now … but must she really be overcome like that , so helplessly ? |
| 19 | But could we please be told just a little bit more about Compus course , er run by Horizon , that 's mentioned in the last paragraph , erm on the , on green one , it 's on the first page . |
| 20 | Yes but could they not be brainwashed if you like into thinking well there 's nothing much wrong there is n't such a thing as evil |
| 21 | It would note be surprising if they were enjoying themselves because everyone likes puzzles that are pitched at the right level ; but could they also be soaking in such GCSE-endangered basics as valency , formula , and molecular weight ? |
| 22 | But could it not be argued that the RSPCA , and others who carry out such a praiseworthy activity , are interfering with the natural selection process ? |
| 23 | I always thought the dropping of litter showed a lack of environmental relationship awareness , but could it also be linked with the " defacing " thing in that cities , streets with paving-slabs etc. are sensed by the human as too perfect and devoid of the texturous imperfections that make up the multi-levelled human life experience ? |
| 24 | But would we not be calling |