Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [pers pn] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next few weeks the scientists of the West were split into two groups : should or should they not try to make an H-bomb ? |
| 2 | I thought for thought for fifteen minutes I was er should I or should I not join the company . |
| 3 | Could it or could it not have a bearing on this present case of murder ? |
| 4 | Would I or would I not welcome the security of a rope ? |
| 5 | Would I or would I not have liked to inherit an estate , even one of modest dimensions ? |
| 6 | Or can you not eat corned beef ? |
| 7 | ‘ No freeman shall be taken , or imprisoned , or be disseised of his freehold or liberties , or free customs , or be outlawed or exiled , or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we not pass upon him , nor condemn him , but by lawful judgment of his peers , or by the law of the land . |
| 8 | That shut them up and should it not do the same to we miserable sinners today ? |
| 9 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 10 | Would Mrs agree that the resources argument that she 's just used is completely fallacious and would she not accept er that it 's better to spend fifty thousand pounds |
| 11 | This is something which has been drawn to my attention on many occasions and would she not agree that there are many of us who very much regret the fact that so many parents er are find it difficult to exercise their right to vote , because there is so much opposition er at a local level from officials |
| 12 | Cameron began to wonder if Mr Menzies was identifying himself with Job , and when he ended ringingly on ‘ Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil ? ’ , the suspicion was confirmed . |
| 13 | Would my right honourable friend confirm that the former director of G C H Q , Sir Brian Tovey , stated that during the imposition of martial law in Warsaw and during the Soviet anva invasion of Afghanistan some ten thousand hours of cover were lost at G C H Q. And will he not confirm that is a perfectly good reason for the ban on external er interference by trade unions in the activities of G C H Q and will he also assure the house that the existing trade assoc the staff association works perfectly well and there is no reason whatever for an external trade union to interfere in G C H Q's affairs . |
| 14 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 15 | But should you not prune them lightly |
| 16 | But might it not draw you and Peter together ? ’ |
| 17 | On that very point sir I 'm grateful to the honourable member for giving way but would he not agree with me that actually the failure of G A T at the end was that by which Caribbean bananas failed to be protected . |
| 18 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 19 | But would it not seem natural for the people who were helped to escape from Hitler now to help those who are resisting Saddam Hussein , and to understand the desire for liberty of the Balts ? |
| 20 | But would it not have been sensible to go and see for himself , before rushing off a wholly inaccurate letter ? |
| 21 | But would it not have been better , he mused , to have left the banqueting hall and defended the Residency where there was a well ? |
| 22 | But would it not get covered in soot and spoil the clean clothes that had just been washed ? |
| 23 | It is an awful mess but will you not come and sit by my fire– ’ |