Example sentences of "[modal v] people " in BNC.

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1 Why should people get rich from selling shoddy goods , causing us and our pets distress and even death .
2 Why should people in the country have these in their food ?
3 It concerned naturalization : under what conditions should people , born abroad and not of Libyan parents , be allowed to take Libyan nationality ?
4 E. E. Kellett wrote of Joseph Parker , ‘ Why should people to whom such a pleasure as this was open , desire to go to the theatre ?
5 Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’
6 Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’
7 To what extent should people be allowed to choose their own reproductive strategies ?
8 Should people pursue their own happiness at the expense of others ?
9 Why should people deny the co-operative principle by being deviant , making their meanings less accessible , their transactions therefore less effective ?
10 Editor , — Robert Tattersall asks , ‘ Should people with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus monitor their blood glucose concentrations ? ’
11 Why should people have money if they do n't know how to use it ?
12 Should people take advantage of this offer ?
13 Why should people believe them now ?
14 What should people do if if they they want to protest about it further David ?
15 I mean , why should people feel so homicidal towards milkmen ?
16 Why on earth should people here who do not have families pay for people who do have families ?
17 Why should people gamble if they 're bound to lose ?
18 Dear me , why must people be so cruel .
19 Must people identity coldness with hostility and deprivation ; warmth with friendliness , nourishment , closeness and intimacy .
20 This led Asquith to fix a pensionable age of seventy , despite the mass of evidence that must people who survived to old age ceased to be able to support themselves by work in their mid-sixties — sixty-five was the age adopted by most occupational and charitable pension schemes .
21 We could ask , for example : what sort of personal sacrifices might people have to make in order to reduce pollution ?
22 Why , why is that the case , well , tell me , why might people , why might you move to a , if you were a rural labourer , why might you move to erm , to an urban area where you knew there were some jobs ?
23 Could people be made to change their durable possessions as if by the whims of fashion ?
24 Somehow irreverent … and yet , what else could people do but follow the prescribed pattern , listen to the lectures , try to hide their fear and act normally .
25 How could people pack and prepare a lifetime 's possessions , even with six days ' notice ?
26 How could people buy this stuff ?
27 What could people say ?
28 And how could people who lived in places like this , farm or city , manage to support a God-King in limitless luxury ?
29 Of course , that left me with a large question — how could people ignore what happened to the Jews ?
30 How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered ?
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