Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | ‘ There ; ll be nobody left behind to grieve , ’ carolled Lehrer , looking on the bright side , Kahn , on the other hand , advocated massive investment in deep shelters so that at least the lucky half — or should it be the unlucky half ? — would be left behind to grieve , and to prove that war need not yet be quite abandoned as mankind 's most addictive sport . |
| 3 | Will Titanic memorabilia stay the course , or should it be put into the same category as Michael Jackson 's rhinestone glove ( £16,000 last year ) , something that will flower today and be consigned to the dusty bunkers of oblivion tomorrow ? |
| 4 | Should change be homogeneous and centrally directed in both design and implementation or should it be heterogeneous and decentralised ? |
| 5 | The Act which he had just steered through Parliament faced Emanuel with difficult choices : should it remain fully independent and operate outside the State system , or should it be incorporated within the local provision of schooling and become a voluntary-aided school ? |
| 6 | Does this difference constitute a part of the variable capital or should it be considered as being part of the social surplus-value ? |
| 7 | Or should it be the station first , see about that job ? |
| 8 | On the other hand ( or should it be ‘ in the other hand ’ ? ) men believe that the penis is in some way a magical and versatile instrument that all men are proud to possess and all women should be desperate to acquire . |
| 9 | Or should it be able , despite being owned by the State , to distance itself somewhat from political authority ? |
| 10 | Should comparison be undertaken for its own sake simply out of intrinsic interest or intellectual challenge , or should it be directed towards some more closely-defined objective ? |
| 11 | Should the fuel be of a fossil type such as coal or oil or should it be the radioactive elements in a nuclear reaction ? |
| 12 | Is this situation acceptable , or should it be changed ? |
| 13 | But Shetland enjoys — or should it be suffers from — a mild , oceanic type of climate , typified by depressions moving east from the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 14 | Should it be taken seriously , or should it be ignored ? |
| 15 | Can Making Belfast Work be improved or should it be shut down to make way for alternative policies ? |
| 16 | Given some aspects of what a sentence conveys in a particular context , is that aspect part of what the sentence conveys in virtue of its meaning … or should it be ‘ worked out ’ on the basis of Gricean principles from the rest of the meaning of the sentence and relevant facts of the context of utterance ? |
| 17 | One area of the market that instantly springs to mind , or should it be hand , is that of the humble joystick . |
| 18 | Or should it be today 's Woman Executive ? |
| 19 | She had a tiny mouth ( ‘ like a hen 's arse' was Grunte 's privately expressed opinion ) and had , because of her aggressive plainness , so far escaped Grunte 's ‘ paternal ’ — or should it be ‘ fraternal ’ — sexual attentions . |
| 20 | Or should it be the rate of interest , and if so at what level ? |
| 21 | So should a school like this one equip for the realities of unforgiveness of the world outside , or should it be much more generous in the way it shows forgiveness and can a school be organised so that it does actually reflect Christ 's teaching on forgiveness . |
| 22 | We 're off to enjoy , or should it be endure , one of the great British sporting challenges now . |
| 23 | Does effort now lead to a cost reduction that lasts for ever , or must it be applied in every period for example ? |
| 24 | A question must be raised concerning the appropriate level at which socialist planning can take place : can it be national in scope or must it be international ? |
| 25 | Convention be construed independently of the Convention or must it be construed according to the law applicable in the individual case ( lex causae ) , which is determined by the private international law of the court applied to ? ( b ) Does article 5(3) of the E.E.C . |
| 26 | Will a free market economy find a Pareto-efficient allocation on its own , or must it be guided there by government intervention ? |
| 27 | There are times when we need to ask ourselves if our use would actually justify a purchase , or might it be better to rent it ? |
| 28 | Was the Universe destined to go on expanding forever , or might it be that gravity would eventually pull all the galaxies back together again until there was a ‘ Big Crunch ’ — later to be followed by a new Big Bang ? |
| 29 | Or could it be that , by the merest possible chance , Steffi is in fact … |
| 30 | Or could it be that you are deft and capable in practical ways ( needed by a care assistant in social service , or as a nursing aide ) ? |