Example sentences of "[modal v] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His mother has received phone calls threatening her should her son play . |
| 32 | The house of Béarn had a strong claim to Bigorre on Esquivat 's death , as the much-married Petronilla , countess of Bigorre ( 1190–1251 ) had ordained in her will that , should her grandson Esquivat die without heirs , the comté was to be held by her daughter Mathe de Bigorre , wife of Gaston VII of Béarn . |
| 33 | If , for example , a firm with its headquarters in London is running manufacturing plants in the UK , Third World countries and elsewhere , if it is using parts and even designs originating abroad , if its shares are owned by people and institutions of all nationalities and are bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange as much as in London , why should its output and its profits be counted as part of the United Kingdom economy ? |
| 34 | Norway 's foreign minister , Thorvald Stoltenberg , has refused to say whether Norway would go ahead with the hunt should its proposals be turned down . |
| 35 | And , if an eagle , should its wings go up or stay horizontal ? |
| 36 | Should its enemies be destroyed or forced to flee the Squig is free to start bouncing again . |
| 37 | How wide should its net be spread ? |
| 38 | Should its rape proposal be rejected , however , it considers that the two-year maximum penalty should remain . |
| 39 | Tactical elements ( for instance , to what extent should the company allow discounts to volume buyers , and how widely should its pricing policy be publicised within the trade ? ) |
| 40 | As a unique object in Geneva , 1816 , how much greater should its value be ! |
| 41 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 42 | My God , what sort of life must her husbands have had ? ’ |
| 43 | ‘ A doctor must be fetched , ’ he said , ‘ and so must her son . ’ |
| 44 | How often do patients have to wet their beds , or how inflamed must their skin be , to justify nursing care ? |
| 45 | The user requesting the package be submitted for approval must its manager and the nominated user must have LIFESPAN Quality Assurer privilege . |
| 46 | And , since the surface of the region shrinks to zero , so too must its volume . |
| 47 | How should today 's young Germans treat Hitler 's legacy — should his bunker be bulldozered for good , or preserved as a warning of the evils he stood for ? |
| 48 | The pilot must be vigilant on every aerotow and must realise the importance of being prepared to release at any point on the climb out should his glider get badly out of position . |
| 49 | Just as the setter is legally obligated to spend fully at the reversion level ( should his proposal fail ) , so he is obliged to spend the whole of the grant in addition to the reversion level of spending ( an assumption consistent with the institutional arrangements of some states in the USA ) . |
| 50 | As part of the deal he gave Wildenstein 's the right of first refusal on 15 of his paintings should his heirs seek to sell them . |
| 51 | Having flatly denied that he has any intention of going to British Rail , Sir David Plastow , chairman of Vickers , yesterday announced that he has installed a ‘ safety valve ’ guaranteeing that he will not be solely responsible should his company hit the slippery slope . |
| 52 | He has granted his lieutenants carte blanche to rebel should his performance ‘ go crook ’ , to use his phrase . |
| 53 | She also argues that , if an agency does not exercise detailed control , it nevertheless exercises the ultimate control of the worker , since it can withdraw him or refuse to offer him another assignment should his performance fail to meet required standards . |
| 54 | If a Christian wrong a Jew , what should his suffrance be by Christian example ? |
| 55 | Why , then , should his relations with Jesus 's own brother have been so awkwardly strained ? |
| 56 | Why should his death , however tragic , threaten irreparable damage to an institutional structure of such proven strength ? |
| 57 | During the course of 1990 Prime Minister Michael Manley spent a period in hospital recovering from pneumonia and later again underwent surgery , leaving Percival Patterson as acting Prime Minister for several months and raising speculation about Manley 's eventual retirement should his health deteriorate further . |
| 58 | At twenty-four , with his father and sister newly dead , he plans what to do with his life should his mother die as well : he would sell up everything and live in Rome , Syracuse or Naples . |
| 59 | To many Churchill was not so much a buccaneer as a straightforward pirate , a political outcast who skated on thin ice deliberately to keep himself in the public eye , a man who polished brilliant and wounding phrases that tacitly suggested himself as the alternative should his jeremiads turn out true . |
| 60 | Gardening and agricultural production , unlike trading , were safe from government intervention , and his mixture of activities gave him some security should his job or his shop come under threat . |