Example sentences of "[modal v] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On March 30 in a joint news conference in Caracas , the Venezuelan capital , with President Carlos Andrés Pérez ( who had been instrumental in initiating the peace process ) Cristiani had offered the FMLN guerrillas a " broad amnesty " and a " plot of land " and confirmed that the government would legalize an FMLN political party should the latter wish to participate in elections .
2 Should the same debates apply to this ?
3 Why should the same weight be given to Harry 's second preference or Dick 's fifth as to Tom 's first " ?
4 Why should the same peptide ‘ mean ’ the same highly specific memory/behaviour in different animals/species ?
5 Should the same scenario arise under the new law , it is suggested that the following analysis applies .
6 Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ?
7 Why , for example , should the same people who throng to welcome Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem clamour only days later for his death ?
8 It is not at all incongruous that Wilson , who thus insisted on Eliot 's Americanness , should a few years later , in his pioneering classic Axel 's Castle ( 1931 ) , insist on Eliot 's Frenchness , thus giving substance and weight to Untermeyer 's too glib acknowledgement of ‘ the Laforgue mechanism ’ .
9 The Governing Body has decided that the income from this fund , which is used according to the By-Law to provide Edith Haynes Scholarships for either undergraduates or graduates of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body , will for the present be available to make grants in the first instance to mature graduates of the College who wish to continue or resume academic work , and are ineligible for State Studentships , or similar public support , by reason of age or inability to meet the requirement of residence in the U. K. Should no such applicant come forward , graduates of another university who are or have been members of the College reading for a further degree will be considered eligible .
10 The public should no more offer a subsidy of this kind using public money without checking if the recipient actually requires it or anybody else besides , means testing is nothing new , there are plenty of other benefits that are already means tested right across the board .
11 If Skinner is right , and children 's language is strongly influenced by the way in which those around them respond , how much more effective might the same processes be if they were applied deliberately and systematically .
12 Could the same effect be reached in modern English , with its much fiercer attitude towards phrasal looseness ?
13 Could the same result be obtained by transplanting a nucleus from well-differentiated cells ?
14 Could the same thing happen with a single bite from an apple ?
15 Could a few allusions be made to Thackeray ? he wondered wistfully ; on the whole , he thought not .
16 Would the same principle of sudden and catastrophic meltwater releases to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in the greenhouse world to come ?
17 Would the same result not have been obtained without the group ?
18 But would the same objection have such weight if one judicial system applied to individuals and the other to corporations ( and other organizations ) ?
19 With the reservation , following Bolton , ‘ that a small firm could not be adequately defined in terms of employment or assets , turnover or any other arbitrary single quantity , nor would the same definition be appropriate through the economy ’ , we can adopt with him an upper limit of 200 employees for small manufacturing firms ; and note that , in 1963 , when he adopted that limit , the average number of people employed in such a firm was 25 .
20 Now she asked herself would the same thing happen again if she surrendered ?
21 Under the resolution overwhelmingly passed by Labour delegates , unions would be subject to fines and there would no such immunity from civil action if they acted illegally .
22 Spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country marked its affectionate tribute to Elena as they would a few days later , around 26 January , pour out their loyalty and love to the Comrade on his birthday — for the last time .
23 Just remember that as the State withers away , so will the many evils which accompany the capitalist state .
24 Will the same procedure be introduced here ?
25 What this hypothetical committee chairman has to offer a president is self-evident , but what favours can the latter trade in return for the chairman 's support ?
26 When he eventually leaves that employer how far can the latter control the ex-employee 's ability to deal with the clients which he brought with him .
27 Assuming that this kind of non-instrumental justification applies to consent and can provide a foundation for the authority of the state over those of its citizens who have consented to its authority , can the same argument be used to base authority on the attitude of respect ?
28 But can the same words carry different meanings ?
29 God can no more stop loving you than he can stop being !
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