Example sentences of "or [adv] [pron] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's our lead singer , or rather I should say he was . |
| 2 | It is true that somebody has to appoint the Chief Inspector as the Lord Chancellor appoints the judges , but other than that there is not , or rather there should not be , any political interest in the functioning of AIB at all . |
| 3 | Should it be , ‘ Has it authority in all matters ? ’ , or should one ask a separate question regarding its authority in matters of taxation , or perhaps one should inquire separately concerning its authority in matters of corporate taxation and personal taxation ? |
| 4 | Those years had established — or perhaps one should say clarified — his entire political agenda . |
| 5 | Obair has also had reservations about private sector developments in West Belfast — or perhaps they should be called public sector developments with a private face . |
| 6 | We can see that he had two views of what constitutes a ‘ law ’ , or perhaps we should say that he had two views as to how ‘ laws ’ manifest themselves . |
| 7 | Or perhaps we should say , Frenchly baked every day . |
| 8 | Enclosure made things more difficult , or perhaps we should say necessitated new and exciting skills , but at least there were no close ranks of trees to make the fences impossible . |
| 9 | They might appear there when normal syntax has to be subordinated to the exigencies of poetry ( or perhaps we should say " of unskilful poetry " ) and they may occur postnominally in prose in one or two special constructions . |
| 10 | ‘ Be always ready , according to your power to relieve the poor and help the distressed … ’ is a quote from The Rules for the Conduct of Life , a copy of which is given to all new Freemen — or perhaps it should now be Freepersons . |
| 11 | One of the most popular demands of ‘ boy labour ’ and other sympathetic reformers , or perhaps it should be described as an aspiration , for that is what it was , referred to the creation of ‘ a satisfactory race of citizens ’ . |
| 12 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 13 | Mrs Knelle 's garden — or perhaps I should say ‘ grounds ’ — meandered gently down to the narrow lakeside road . |
| 14 | Or perhaps I should say , a player and a half . |
| 15 | Or perhaps I should just wait here — perhaps someone 's gone into town to look for me and will come back eventually — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 17 | Or perhaps I should say : she forbore from actually striking . |
| 18 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 19 | Or perhaps I should say , a story . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're working with publishers on customising , or perhaps I should say ‘ Dillonising ’ , point of sale material , ’ said David Mutton of Dillons . |
| 21 | Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew . |
| 22 | Or perhaps I should n't have said that … ’ |
| 23 | Or perhaps I should say that Mike went to Bracken Cottage while you and I were in Bruges . |
| 24 | But only those who know me very well call me Fen , and I do n't know you from Adam — or perhaps I should say Eve . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Good morning , Robbie , ’ he drawled , ‘ or perhaps I should say good afternoon . ’ |
| 26 | Unions have turned professional , serving their members ' interests in the way that members , or perhaps I should call them customers , demand . |
| 27 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 28 | Digital technology has introduced ( or perhaps I should say that it has reintroduced , for the first time since the establishment and dominance of printing ) the unstable , or infinitely variable , text . |
| 29 | Or perhaps I should start calling you Stephen — I 'm nearly as old as you are now . |
| 30 | The Liberal Democrats are opposed to the basis of this review at national level we believe an opportunity has been missed or perhaps I should say ducked for the common , fair electoral system for which this country is supposedly a signatory . |