Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [pers pn] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 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 .
5 Are you discussing business , or may I join you ? ’
6 ‘ Was there anything else , or may I go ? ’
7 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 ?
8 Or may it stand as it is , and ought to be ? ’
9 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 ’ .
10 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 ?
11 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 ?
12 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 ?
13 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 ?
14 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 ?
15 And how do we rescue particular places , or should we leave them to decay ?
16 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 ? ’
17 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 ?
18 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 .
19 Or should we — women alone — be working to rewrite the map of morality to promote a separate moral perspective ?
20 Can we or should we attempt to teach turn-taking ?
21 The formulae ( ‘ it seemed good ’ , ‘ straight away ’ ) are aped from ‘ city ’ terminology ( and note the deme agora , something normally characteristic of a polis , cp. p. 66 ) — or should we say that the city aped the demes ?
22 Should we take account of only the material standards of village life or should we include such an apparently ephemeral notion as what is colloquially referred to as ‘ community spirit ’ , the sense of identity and belonging , which the inhabitants feel ?
23 Is this correct or should we allow different styles for different boats ?
24 In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ?
25 Is professional money advice still a subject creditors can afford to ignore , or should we not be moving towards full recognition and co-operation and all its implications ?
26 Should further credit be refused ? or should we acquiesce in this involuntary trade credit to retain business ?
27 Or should we continue to accept the anomaly ?
28 Or should we ask instead if the General really made a habit of such manual labour ?
29 However , should we decide to consider the Bill in a Committee of the whole House , the first set of amendments tabled by the Opposition — should the Opposition win the vote or should we accede to them — would torpedo the Bill below the water line and sink it lock , stock and barrel .
30 Or should we limit ourselves only to those who were prepared to engage actively on behalf of the cause ?
  Next page