Example sentences of "or should it [be] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There ; ll be nobody left behind to grieve , ’ carolled Lehrer , looking on the bright side , Kahn , on the other hand , advocated massive investment in deep shelters so that at least the lucky half — or should it be the unlucky half ? — would be left behind to grieve , and to prove that war need not yet be quite abandoned as mankind 's most addictive sport .
2 Will Titanic memorabilia stay the course , or should it be put into the same category as Michael Jackson 's rhinestone glove ( £16,000 last year ) , something that will flower today and be consigned to the dusty bunkers of oblivion tomorrow ?
3 Should change be homogeneous and centrally directed in both design and implementation or should it be heterogeneous and decentralised ?
4 The Act which he had just steered through Parliament faced Emanuel with difficult choices : should it remain fully independent and operate outside the State system , or should it be incorporated within the local provision of schooling and become a voluntary-aided school ?
5 Does this difference constitute a part of the variable capital or should it be considered as being part of the social surplus-value ?
6 Or should it be the station first , see about that job ?
7 On the other hand ( or should it be ‘ in the other hand ’ ? ) men believe that the penis is in some way a magical and versatile instrument that all men are proud to possess and all women should be desperate to acquire .
8 Or should it be able , despite being owned by the State , to distance itself somewhat from political authority ?
9 Should comparison be undertaken for its own sake simply out of intrinsic interest or intellectual challenge , or should it be directed towards some more closely-defined objective ?
10 Should the fuel be of a fossil type such as coal or oil or should it be the radioactive elements in a nuclear reaction ?
11 Is this situation acceptable , or should it be changed ?
12 But Shetland enjoys — or should it be suffers from — a mild , oceanic type of climate , typified by depressions moving east from the Atlantic Ocean .
13 Should it be taken seriously , or should it be ignored ?
14 Can Making Belfast Work be improved or should it be shut down to make way for alternative policies ?
15 Given some aspects of what a sentence conveys in a particular context , is that aspect part of what the sentence conveys in virtue of its meaning … or should it be ‘ worked out ’ on the basis of Gricean principles from the rest of the meaning of the sentence and relevant facts of the context of utterance ?
16 One area of the market that instantly springs to mind , or should it be hand , is that of the humble joystick .
17 Or should it be today 's Woman Executive ?
18 She had a tiny mouth ( ‘ like a hen 's arse' was Grunte 's privately expressed opinion ) and had , because of her aggressive plainness , so far escaped Grunte 's ‘ paternal ’ — or should it be ‘ fraternal ’ — sexual attentions .
19 Or should it be the rate of interest , and if so at what level ?
20 So should a school like this one equip for the realities of unforgiveness of the world outside , or should it be much more generous in the way it shows forgiveness and can a school be organised so that it does actually reflect Christ 's teaching on forgiveness .
21 We 're off to enjoy , or should it be endure , one of the great British sporting challenges now .
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