Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tourists in search of a little colonial nostalgia can still go ballroom dancing in the crumbling grandeur of the Eastern & Oriental Hotel or may chance across an ancient guide book : ‘ To Siam and Malaya in the Duke of Sutherland 's Yacht ’ . |
| 2 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 3 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 4 | This could happen should genetically altered plants become weeds , or should insects designed to eat certain pests develop a taste for others . |
| 5 | Or should policy concentrate more on clarifying the goals and outcomes of learning , and on providing the kind of support which will enable schools to identify for themselves the best possible ways of achieving such goals and outcomes ? |
| 6 | Should criminal or civil sanctions be employed , or should regulation fall to the professional bodies , to be dealt with in the time-honoured fashion of self-regulation ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Will Cleveland turf out its only Tory or could Tim Devlin again snatch victory ? |
| 9 | It put the stark question : ‘ Shall we put an end to the human race : or shall mankind renounce war ? ’ |
| 10 | Or shall Mammy read it ? ’ |
| 11 | Would they clean the place themselves or would Alison employ a maid ? |
| 12 | Are there any special circumstances making legal representation desirable or would hardship follow if it was withheld ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Would Coker , Australia 's World Cup No 8 , be back for the Pilkington final on May 2 or would selection requirements 12,000 miles away take precedence ? |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Now will you take the rest of his things , or will Mrs Gaunt be coming ? ’ |
| 19 | In recent years people have been asking : does the post need to be filled or can reorganisation be used to distribute the work among existing staff ? |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Must the existence of God be probable , or can theism seek to defend its position against the improbability of God 's existence ? |
| 23 | Is the discipline controlled by the big guns , or can individuals — even those without tenured posts in institutions — really expect to get a hearing ? |
| 24 | There is no requirement that use or disclosure be intentional ; nor must loss to the company be established . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nor should banks be allowed to forget why they are in difficulties . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nor should industry expect ‘ to find refuge in a perpetually depreciating currency ’ , Mrs Thatcher said , underlining Nigel Lawson 's opposition to devaluation of the pound . |
| 29 | Certainly censorship should not be allowed to masquerade as virtuous compromise , but nor should commitment to free speech go unexamined . |
| 30 | Nor should costs of researching and negotiating alternative sources of finance be included . |