Example sentences of "and [modal v] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Brothers have been brothers ’ bane — and may the nephew be sure of the uncle ? |
| 2 | Keep visualising the future , and may the power of influence be with you … |
| 3 | The new system of funding is also intended to foster competition as institutions attempt to outbid one another for student places ; and should a voucher system be introduced , competition will intensify . |
| 4 | This has now become a listed building and should a buyer be found for the surplus Ministry of Defence land , a pre-requisite would be the dismantling of the hangar and its re-erection on RAF Museum land . |
| 5 | It was thus agreed that redemption , to the sun of £100 only ( 4 x £25 bonds ) , be drawn for and should a bondholder so drawn insist on taking his money then the Bolney Syndicate would , if necessary , buy the bonds so saving the Club 's strained resources . |
| 6 | Palaeography is a very inexact science , and should the researcher wish to delve a little deeper an excellent starting point is The Handwriting of English Documents by H.C . |
| 7 | Should the ball be unaffected by the crosswind , the next stroke is playable to the green , and should the ball be caught by an extra gust , it will still find the right of the fairway or the light rough . |
| 8 | Well what responsibility does the church have for down and outs and should the vicar try to get rid of this man in the churchyard , or should the vicar invite him into the vicarage . |
| 9 | Bowe dethroned Holyfield in November and should the fight go ahead , he will donate his proceeds to help the famine in Somalia . |
| 10 | Mistakes can be rectified by re-drawing the letter and should the PDA have particular trouble with a letter it can be re-trained with four new samples of the character . |
| 11 | If 500 was Sciences , 530 Physics , and 539 Atomic Physics , revisers at DDC headquarters could subdivide decimally to produce 539.731 I , the number for the Electron ; and should the electron itself reveal hidden depths in future , presumably they can continue to subdivide by adding numbers to the right hand end . |
| 12 | I desire he would send also a box of Castile soap , a chest of candles , four hats ( the sun does not like my complexion ) , a small case of drinking glasses ( the supply on board the Hopewell was dashed to pieces ) and should the passage lie by the isle of Madeira , a pipe of that nectar , for I have exhausted my store . |
| 13 | and should the request be for something ‘ esoteric ’ , there are about 15 freelance translators she can call upon , all with their own specialities . |
| 14 | But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | The manager may only see each volunteer once a week and should the manager be out of the bureau on that occasion , two weeks may pass . |
| 16 | Mr Stewart added : ‘ If there is a snagging and should the fishing vessel not have a pinger attached to its gear , that should not be taken some way as meaning that the fishing vessel having contributed to her own misfortune . |
| 17 | And should the inventor then fail in the business he has established to exploit the invention which his employer was unwilling or unable to utilise , he may be left so disillusioned that his talents and abilities are ultimately lost to the country as a whole . |
| 18 | The Tsar retained the power to veto all legislation and should an emergency arise while the Duma was not in session , Article 87 of the Fundamental Laws enabled him to legislate by decree . |
| 19 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 20 | I ask this question purely and simply because of all the children 's homes that are being closed , and these children need a caring and a happy home life and could the Board encourage church members to become foster parents ? |
| 21 | And could the shop team keep shops open an extra seven and half hours in the best trading week for example ? |
| 22 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 23 | If that martinet had not been already married , he would have married Sophia , and would no doubt have made Paul 's life even more intolerable as his stepfather . |
| 24 | The trouble was , he was now warned that there was a sizeable force in the vicinity to challenge him , and would no doubt hereafter take all possible precautions . |
| 25 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 26 | For everything depends on the weather ; most birds — even tiny scraps like goldcrests — can make the ‘ North Sea hop ’ in one go , and would no doubt would prefer to give Shetland a miss . |
| 27 | And would the propensity for breaking at awkward moments of nylon clamps , gear wheels in printers , etc be avoided if the properties of Nylon 6 vis-à-vis 66 ( not to speak of the more recent nylons now available ) were better appreciated ? |
| 28 | And would the minister be there too ? |
| 29 | At the end of the parade — almost at once — it was announced that ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ and her ‘ wolf ’ had been awarded first prize in the parade , and would the winner , Angela Norcroft , of the 3rd Shortfields Pack kindly come to the prize-giving tent in half an hour 's time for her prize — a bicycle ? |
| 30 | I stopped the car in the entrance to the farm and would the window down an inch or two . |