Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Cleveland turf out its only Tory or could Tim Devlin again snatch victory ? |
| 2 | Would they clean the place themselves or would Alison employ a maid ? |
| 3 | And now you 've asked the question — do you want Charles to be King or would Di be the better monarch — here 's your chance to answer it . |
| 4 | Or would Eden think of the air marshals , and the children who had lost their parents in a blitz , and former warriors who had seen too much blood on a battlefield , and exercise a silent veto , by going for the second preference ? |
| 5 | Now will you take the rest of his things , or will Mrs Gaunt be coming ? ’ |
| 6 | She had no intention of allowing these people to know how happy she would be working beside Silas — nor must Silas himself be given an inkling of her inner joy . |
| 7 | Nor should Juan and Isabellita Peron 's promotion of the couple seem out of place — though Elena found little to admire in Peron 's second wife , an ageing and broadening nightclub hostess , compared with the legendary Evita . |
| 8 | Nor could Chamberlain ever show how a preference within the low tariffs , which were the most that Britain would conceivably tolerate upon her food or raw materials , could make the difference , as he constantly reiterated , between Imperial consolidation and Imperial dissolution . |
| 9 | But I do n't think they could believe what was happening — and nor could I. |
| 10 | Nor could I. Did you miss not 'aving me to talk to ? |
| 11 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 12 | Nor could Jaq imagine that she could attain the full strength of a purestrain Stealer — though her own strength was formidable , even when unenhanced . |
| 13 | Nutty could not think of a good answer and nor could Mr Sylvester , so Nails was allowed to come . |
| 14 | Nor could Hitler 's speech on ‘ Heroes ’ Memorial Day ’ — the nazified remembrance of the dead of the First World War — on 15 March do much to improve morale . |
| 15 | Nor could Irina and I after all those years . |
| 16 | Nor could Obispal exactly be viewed as incompetent , despite his last-moment slackening of judgement when he charged into that trap in the arcade . |
| 17 | Gorbachev had no doubt that the socialist choice in October 1917 had been the right one ; nor could Marx be blamed for subsequent developments he had obviously been unable to foresee . |
| 18 | Nor could Creggan see that with that return of some sense of a spirit of life that can never die there came to the nearly lifeless wings of the close-caged Minch a sudden struggle and slight flutter of purpose — not much , but enough to make the Man look down in surprise and tighten his grip on the carrier cage . |
| 19 | It was clear that Jones could do much more detailed neutron measurements than could Fleischmann and Pons , but his data were n't particularly impressive . |
| 20 | Nor would Harry go against Father 's dictates . |
| 21 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 22 | Nor would Sam Fawcett have ever upset the balance of nature in the dale because he was a naturalist and a conservationist by inclination . |
| 23 | Nor would Trevor MacDonald . |
| 24 | Nor would Edwin concede more than a spineless encouragement that she be hopeful and humble in their work together . |
| 25 | What 's more , nor would Mrs Fry . |
| 26 | Nor would Germany , if she were attacked by France alone , obtain more than the benevolent neutrality of Austria-Hungary . |
| 27 | Nor would Georgiana . |
| 28 | Nor would Nevton any better understand that on a deeper level he had tried to force Hope into himself or force himself in Hope and , despite initial success , discovered a fierce resistance . |
| 29 | As the Big Man marched into Dartmouth at his amazingly fast pace of 4.3 miles an hour , the hundreds lining the roadside would have no idea of the agony he was in — nor would Botham dream of telling them . |
| 30 | Nor would King Hussein of Jordan , a man whom the Shah had constantly supported . |