Example sentences of "and [vb mod] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Brothers have been brothers ’ bane — and may the nephew be sure of the uncle ? |
| 2 | Keep visualising the future , and may the power of influence be with you … |
| 3 | May the men love you , and may the women do you no harm . ) |
| 4 | May the men love you , and may the women do you no harm . ) |
| 5 | And may the odd knife his great carcass dissect ; Lay open his vitals for all to inspect A heart full as black as the infernal gulf In that greedy , blood-sucking , bone scraping wolf . |
| 6 | The manager may only see each volunteer once a week and should the manager be out of the bureau on that occasion , two weeks may pass . |
| 7 | Palaeography is a very inexact science , and should the researcher wish to delve a little deeper an excellent starting point is The Handwriting of English Documents by H.C . |
| 8 | There are two safeguards however , such an Order requires the Secretary of State 's confirmation and would probably result in a public inquiry and should the local authority be successful s.170 of that Act provides that compensation is payable in respect or any exercise of the power . |
| 9 | And should the universities churn out unemployable graduates ? |
| 10 | Should the ball be unaffected by the crosswind , the next stroke is playable to the green , and should the ball be caught by an extra gust , it will still find the right of the fairway or the light rough . |
| 11 | And should the current two vacancies within the Windsor firm find themselves listed at the local Job Centre it 's impossible to calculate how many of the nation 's three million unemployed might apply . |
| 12 | Mistakes can be rectified by re-drawing the letter and should the PDA have particular trouble with a letter it can be re-trained with four new samples of the character . |
| 13 | If 500 was Sciences , 530 Physics , and 539 Atomic Physics , revisers at DDC headquarters could subdivide decimally to produce 539.731 I , the number for the Electron ; and should the electron itself reveal hidden depths in future , presumably they can continue to subdivide by adding numbers to the right hand end . |
| 14 | I desire he would send also a box of Castile soap , a chest of candles , four hats ( the sun does not like my complexion ) , a small case of drinking glasses ( the supply on board the Hopewell was dashed to pieces ) and should the passage lie by the isle of Madeira , a pipe of that nectar , for I have exhausted my store . |
| 15 | And should the conditions about availability of , or taking of , food be national or for the local Licensing Justices to attach as appropriate when granting the Children 's Certificate ? |
| 16 | But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | And should the inventor then fail in the business he has established to exploit the invention which his employer was unwilling or unable to utilise , he may be left so disillusioned that his talents and abilities are ultimately lost to the country as a whole . |
| 18 | and should the request be for something ‘ esoteric ’ , there are about 15 freelance translators she can call upon , all with their own specialities . |
| 19 | Sir Arthur Nicholson , a contemporary observer noted : ‘ should the peasants excited by socialist and anarchist agitators be led on … and should the working classes simultaneously rise in the towns there will be a catastrophe such as history has rarely witnessed ’ . |
| 20 | There 's a dilemma of who 's taking decisions about what and should the troops on the ground who may be involved , could be involved in fighting following an air strike erm are not under a NATO flag , they 're under a United Nations flag , so it is quite a complex situation and a very delicate one to handle . |
| 21 | Bowe dethroned Holyfield in November and should the fight go ahead , he will donate his proceeds to help the famine in Somalia . |
| 22 | Mr Stewart added : ‘ If there is a snagging and should the fishing vessel not have a pinger attached to its gear , that should not be taken some way as meaning that the fishing vessel having contributed to her own misfortune . |
| 23 | Well what responsibility does the church have for down and outs and should the vicar try to get rid of this man in the churchyard , or should the vicar invite him into the vicarage . |
| 24 | And could the mysterious Voyager Times Two responsible for Inertia 's Saturn-skimming ‘ Satisfaction ’ be Carl Craig himself ? |
| 25 | I ask this question purely and simply because of all the children 's homes that are being closed , and these children need a caring and a happy home life and could the Board encourage church members to become foster parents ? |
| 26 | And could the CSCE talks be turned into a forum for meaningful co-operation between the two halves of Europe , plus America , leading perhaps to Gorbachev 's ‘ common European house ’ ? |
| 27 | Lancashire Region to move and could the other speakers move , and seconders , additional speakers , come down to the rostrum please |
| 28 | And could the shop team keep shops open an extra seven and half hours in the best trading week for example ? |
| 29 | And would the swans find shelter from the storm , or ride it out like three-masted sailing ships ? |
| 30 | And would the propensity for breaking at awkward moments of nylon clamps , gear wheels in printers , etc be avoided if the properties of Nylon 6 vis-à-vis 66 ( not to speak of the more recent nylons now available ) were better appreciated ? |