Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] or [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares which the holder may or will be required to redeem are also not equity shares , since they do not form part of the residual interest in the company . |
| 2 | During some of the earlier programmes in this series , the question of how far parents could or should be involved in their children 's education was raised . |
| 3 | Including a review of material already published about women and philosophy , she distinguishes between female , feminine and feminist points of view , and then , focusing on the first of these , she considers how philosophy could or would be affected by the inclusion of more women in its institutional structures . |
| 4 | On the other hand , because the perfect answer is not always immediately available does not mean that the whole exercise can or should be abandoned as a foolish pipe-dream . |
| 5 | Such knowledge was not only desirable in itself , but would liberate and transform the life of the individual , and through him [ sic ] , the life of the society , since such individuals would or should be the appropriate leaders or rulers , a notion which would become democratized in modern ideologies of liberal education to include ‘ leaders ’ in any walk of life ( especially the working-class ) and indeed the ordinary , democratic citizen . |
| 6 | The point at issue is whether such affective , and essentially subjective , aspects of educational and personal development can or should be subjected to formal recognition in the certification process . |
| 7 | I do not mean to imply that engineering should or could be an exact discipline . |
| 8 | the debate which loomed large in Victorian society as to whether strict respect for the Sabbath could or should be enforced by law . |
| 9 | One particularly important design decision is the choice of word length , since this affects how instructions are stored , the number of bits which are used to specify operation codes and addressing modes , and what data formats can or must be provided ( for example , double-length working may be a necessity , if a short word length is chosen ) . |
| 10 | Obviously , the more thorough the investigation , the more likely it is that the vendor will resist giving warranties , on the basis that no reliance will or need be placed on them . |
| 11 | There is no sense of how the various points discussed earlier in the book should or could be applied , for we are simply presented with certain aspects of the play 's style and development . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not myself feel justified in attaching much weight to the tenuous evidence upon which we were invited to find that the plaintiffs made their payments because of apprehensions induced by words or conduct of state officials that vehicles would or might be seized and detained under section 47 . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , the public preference approach is not without its problems , notably how to assess people 's preferences , and whether a consensus could or should be achieved . |
| 14 | Those who blame most and ask least — ‘ You never do anything for me ’ , ‘ You never take me out ’ — are usually very vulnerable , deprived people with little basic trust that others will or can be helpful . |
| 15 | But it is doubtful if the problem can or should be solved with spending cuts alone . |
| 16 | But it is doubtful if the problem can or should be solved with spending cuts alone . |
| 17 | Nor did he know whether the fridge had been manufactured to last or to become obsolescent quickly ; nor whether it consumed more or less electricity to run than other models ; nor whether , when it was defunct , its parts could or would be recycled . |
| 18 | While this may provide some justification for ensuring that the decision-maker indicates what was the factual basis for his action , we should be extremely wary of developing review of facts upon the premise that all such material could or should be considered . |