Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases where , after considering all alternatives , serious and disinterested ecologists and the like say that culling the herbivores seems to be the only practical cure , is that legitimate or ought we to ban all killing ? |
| 2 | Or ought we be able to do it ourselves ? |
| 3 | Or ought it rather to suggest that the texts do not record the words of the classical jurists very precisely ? |
| 4 | Differences in spatial visualisation ability and mathematics attainment may thus be different outcomes of the same basic cause or may themselves be cause and effect . |
| 5 | I 'm honoured to get your letter , your Highness ( or may I call you Harry ? ) but you fail to say which of Her Majesty 's fish are off-colour . |
| 6 | Are you discussing business , or may I join you ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Was there anything else , or may I go ? ’ |
| 8 | There are also purist considerations : should the integrity of the original object be maintained , or may it be tampered with to display it to its best advantage ? |
| 9 | Or may it stand as it is , and ought to be ? ’ |
| 10 | So he sent a telegram to his wife saying : ‘ Am in Market Harborough — where ought I to be ? ’ and she , being a practical woman , sent a terse telegram with one word : ‘ Home ’ . |
| 11 | The issue here is not only Where do I locate my response ? , but Where ought I to locate it in order not to be misguided , or plain wrong , or reveal my ignorance or blindness ? |
| 12 | Do you approve of these changes happening all around the edges of our towns , or should something different be done ? |
| 13 | The East German crisis — or should one say simply the German crisis ? — is thus essentially a political crisis , and the answers to it , if there are answers , must also be political . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Or should one take a middle road , trying to understand what goes wrong and then deciding whether it is easier to prevent or to cure ? |
| 16 | So , in the end ( or should one say ‘ at the beginning' ? ) it comes down to the health of the living soil . |
| 17 | Perhaps the strangest talisman — and one ( or should one say many … ? ) which made those initiates feel themselves intimately a part of the Fists — was kept in a long crypt below the Reclusiam , reached by a dropshaft which would incinerate anyone who did not sport a Black Carapace beneath their skin . |
| 18 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 19 | ‘ I must say all this is rather terrifying for me — these card indexes and things — or should one say indices ? — I never know . ’ |
| 20 | Is this a valid belief , or should one regard society and politics also as being essentially local in character ? |
| 21 | The designers were facing the question : - Can the search space be kept within manageable proportions until this disambiguating information is reached , or should one try to find the ‘ narrow ’ point and start from there ? |
| 22 | Should one take sample cross-sections of the material on an ad hoc or regular time basis , or should one attempt to capture the ‘ record ’ in its entirety ? |
| 23 | Or should we give them back their dignity , their freedom and their rightful place in the natural order of the world 's rivers and oceans ? |
| 24 | Should we help blues singers to find a wider audience , outside the coloured quarters of Southern towns , or should we leave them where they are , that the blues may thrive ? |
| 25 | Or should we perhaps seize the opportunity , when the whole curriculum is in disarray , to put forward a case for excluding the moral , the social , and the religious from the schoolteacher 's sphere of responsibility ? |
| 26 | Should we conceptualize local politics as merely denoting local voting behaviour , or should we include geographical variations in a range of political activity and experience ? |
| 27 | And how do we rescue particular places , or should we leave them to decay ? |
| 28 | As Cliff Drysdale , former top player turned television commentator , in chairing the seminar , put it , the two questions needing to be addressed are ‘ Is there a problem and if so , what can or should we do about it ? ’ |
| 29 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 30 | In the view of many discerning pop fans , The Farm are , of course , shite , the most recent and worst atrocity being their ‘ reading ’ ( or should we say brief flick through , glancing at the pictures ) of ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ , which , contrary to popular belief , is not entirely a third-rate copy of the Human League original . |