Example sentences of "[modal v] britain " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what should Britain and France do about it ? |
| 2 | WHAT should Britain do about an examination attacked by the country 's employers ' organisation , by the heads of four-fifths of its secondary schools , by its university vice-chancellors and even by the Prince of Wales ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why should Britain and Switzerland fall out ? ’ |
| 4 | Why should Britain 's areas of highest unemployment suffer because of Tory party internal divisions ? |
| 5 | Asking a question such as " Should Britain spend more on defence or on education ? " and requiring a single response one way or the other does not cover those cases where a person might feel that more should be spent on both , or , for that matter , less on both . |
| 6 | In logic we would say to ourselves because the Germans are getting more seats , because East Germany is being added to the union , why on earth should Britain get more as well and it seems very difficult to explain why we should have extra seats at all . |
| 7 | Only in this way , they believed , could Britain hope to count in the twentieth-century world , alongside the emerging super-powers of America , Russia and Germany . |
| 8 | Only in this way could Britain , competing in a world of emerging economic giants , ‘ keep her place as a Great Power ’ . |
| 9 | Confronted by the imminent threat of Nazi invasion , and convinced that only by straining every nerve could Britain avoid the fate of France , millions of people came , perhaps for the first time , to perceive the nation not as something to which they were admitted by the grace of kings , but as their own authentic community . |
| 10 | If industry were unable to draw on a suitably trained and appropriately educated work-force , how could Britain be expected to make its way in the world 's markets ? |
| 11 | Only by steadily improving efficiency would Britain win and keep its share of the world 's markets . |
| 12 | Japan 's ruling Liberal Democrats would no more dare sanction an open-door policy for Asia 's migrant workers than would Britain 's Conservatives risk letting in thousands more from Jamaica or Pakistan . |
| 13 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 14 | But what would Britain be like after three , and possibly four , terms of a Thatcher-dominated government ? |
| 15 | Nor would Britain escape . |
| 16 | The question remains , if the Irish do not want toxic waste , will Britain have to accept even more of it ? |
| 17 | But what , apart from a hangover , will Britain share with its neighbours ? |
| 18 | If it is the latter , how will Britain ensure or guarantee that the old or new boundaries are enforced ? |
| 19 | Now that Libya has referred the matter to the International Court of Justice , will Britain desist from trying to get the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions or take military action against Libya until the International Court of Justice has ruled on the matter ? |
| 20 | interest rates , will Britain do the same ? |
| 21 | So will Britain now follow the Germans down ? |
| 22 | Yet how can Britain argue for a level playing field in Europe when we do n't even have one at home ? |
| 23 | It was entitled ‘ Can Britain recover her former glory ? ’ |
| 24 | The trickier question is : can Britain 's businesses make the required switch into exports ? |