Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] it [be] [verb] " 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 | But Shetland enjoys — or should it be suffers from — a mild , oceanic type of climate , typified by depressions moving east from the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Can Making Belfast Work be improved or should it be shut down to make way for alternative policies ? |
| 5 | Should it be taken seriously , or should it be ignored ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | We 're off to enjoy , or should it be endure , one of the great British sporting challenges now . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Is this situation acceptable , or should it be changed ? |
| 10 | Does this difference constitute a part of the variable capital or should it be considered as being part of the social surplus-value ? |
| 11 | Does effort now lead to a cost reduction that lasts for ever , or must it be applied in every period for example ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Will a free market economy find a Pareto-efficient allocation on its own , or must it be guided there by government intervention ? |
| 14 | Will further funds be withdrawn and the company allowed to fail with loss of jobs , or will it be supported as a ‘ lame-duck ’ reintroducing many of the industrial problems of the UK of the 1970s ? |
| 15 | Or will it be overhearing Glastonbury delivering crisp instructions to Fagg about what to do with the detonators left over from their last operation ? |
| 16 | Does the idea of homology apply only to morphological patterns , he asks , or can it be applied to developmental processes ? |
| 17 | Is leadership a natural quality or can it be learned ? |
| 18 | Nor must it be assumed that the whole of the Sahara shared in this climatic amelioration , for , as Gautier says , there are few traces of wadi patterns in the Libyan desert , which , forming the core of the Sahara , was probably less affected . |
| 19 | The designation must not be misleading , nor must it be based on an area of practice in which a claim to specialisation or particular expertise would be improper ( see paragraph 2(b) above ) . |
| 20 | This factor should not be over-emphasized , since most book provision systems could be more scientifically managed than they are , but nor should it be dismissed . |
| 21 | Reviewing the arguments presented earlier , it would seem that the lack of local politics in the post-war period should not be equated with the turning of local government into mere agents of the centre ; nor should it be seen as the result of non-local structural forces promoting change on a national basis . |
| 22 | While the way in which sexual relations are conducted obviously varies considerably from individual to individual and from zone to zone , generally speaking , there is an attempt to maintain a fairly strict control in the military camps , although this does not apply for the civilian population , nor should it be regarded as an indication of future attitudes . |
| 23 | What happened on Friday night happened , but in my humble opinion it never was , nor should it be regarded as , a resignation matter . |
| 24 | Nor should it be noted does the 1958 Public Record Act actually lay down what sorts of records should be preserved and why . |
| 25 | Nor should it be assumed that siblings who have lived apart , sometimes married , for many years have broken these profound childhood links which shaped their attitudes to each other . |
| 26 | Nor should it be assumed that the young teachers of 30 years ago were all aspiring members of the working class . |
| 27 | Nor should it be assumed that the division of the language items into lexis , structure and discourse function presents students with problems of equal difficulty or me with identical roles in each case . |
| 28 | Nor should it be used to protect one private interest against another . |
| 29 | No one member should always be the sole person to reveal himself or herself , nor should it be forgotten that there is no consistent pattern of when the process of disclosure is desirable and beneficial ( Chelune et al. |
| 30 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |