Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could happen should genetically altered plants become weeds , or should insects designed to eat certain pests develop a taste for others . |
| 2 | Do you think it 's necessary to stress the femaleness of all this , or should men and women in rock groups be considered in the same way ? |
| 3 | Would it be possible to re-use old programs written for conventional machines , or would users have to start from scratch and throw away their existing investment in software ? |
| 4 | Is it a question of economics , because if they were more efficient , that is if they used less fuel to get a given mileage , is it a question of the companies involved being unwilling to put the money into the development costs , or would cars that are more efficient cost a lot more money to buy ? |
| 5 | In addition to wall displays thought needs to be given to the equipment which can be used in the room , e.g. does the teacher always have to use the overhead projector or slide projector with the whole class or can groups of pupils go and view a selection of slides independently as needed ? |
| 6 | The leader as always is er is a directive agency , the leader as it were erm takes over the individual self-determination by erm effectively telling telling the good what to do erm how can this er does this have to be in in one direction only I mean one gets the feelings very often you know you see things in the newspaper crowd hysteria and so on , erm do crowds always have to become kind of primitive and regressed or or can leaders influence them in other directions ? |
| 7 | Is the discipline controlled by the big guns , or can individuals — even those without tenured posts in institutions — really expect to get a hearing ? |
| 8 | Nor should banks be allowed to forget why they are in difficulties . |
| 9 | Nor should costs of researching and negotiating alternative sources of finance be included . |
| 10 | The fate of Henry Scott may yet prove to be a salutary lesson to those local authorities intending to expand their programmes of publishing homosexual-related literature , nor should librarians ignore this piece of history if they display homosexual literature amongst their new acquisitions or publish a booklist of homosexual literature . |
| 11 | Nothing that has been painted or varnished recently should be allowed in , nor should cosmetics , cleaning materials or any of the other items mentioned in Table 3 . |
| 12 | Patients should not be discharged without such arrangements , but nor should beds be blocked unnecessarily . |
| 13 | Fish that must needs bite or themselves be bitten , |
| 14 | Thereby did the diabolical Powers seek to mutate the substance of the universe and to destroy Man 's far-flung yet ultimately frail empire of sanity — a sanity that must needs defend itself with unrelenting savagery … |
| 15 | Nor could visits be paid to her . |
| 16 | Nor could Unionists , who had flocked to the colours in 1914 , accept for long inequality of sacrifice when the nation 's greatest need was manpower . |
| 17 | Nor could leaders of the Conservative party offer active support for the idea , for it implied lack of confidence in the leadership of Baldwin no less than in that of MacDonald . |
| 18 | Though schools could reclaim VAT , universities and students could not , nor could parents buying books for children . |
| 19 | Nor could doctors after a 999 crew rushed her to hospital in Bath . |
| 20 | Nor could reports be produced necessarily with much consultation in the holiday period . |
| 21 | Nor could breakdowns of these awards in terms of age bands and entry qualifications be supplied . |
| 22 | No longer would their errors be held to ridicule in respect of run-outs , stumpings and certain other contentious issues ( but not lbws or bat-pad catches — though there could be a case for relieving the umpires of the task of no-balling ) ; nor could players justifiably feel disgruntled for the superior eye of the camera would be deciding their fates with pronounced accuracy , ensuring that justice was done and seen to be done . |
| 23 | Nor could outcomes be retrospectively measured against stated objectives , since the project was still in progress and would , in any event , be having an effect long after any official end to the programme . |
| 24 | Nor could men be sure , as faith diminished , that death would only visit them , or their loved ones , in God 's good time . |
| 25 | Chemical defoliants would not be used against crops , nor would producers be arrested or property confiscated . |
| 26 | Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy . |
| 27 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 28 | Wives coping in these conditions were more likely to patronise fried fish and ready-cooked meat shops than would housewives with ranges or gas stoves . |
| 29 | The latter would be subject to less extensive review than would tribunals and other administrative institutions . |
| 30 | Nor can teachers any longer be allowed to say that they do not know what will be required of their pupils three , six or eight years later . |