Example sentences of "[modal v] it [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is a good idea , should it not extend to all forms of public services — not just those that the Government decide ? |
| 2 | If to encourage recycling , should it not reflect the relative cost to industry of switching from virgin to recycled materials ? |
| 3 | That shut them up and should it not do the same to we miserable sinners today ? |
| 4 | Will the Minister confirm that the Government will take the necessary steps — if necessary through Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution — to ensure that PowerGen complies with its commitment to retrofit 4 GW of coal burn should it not do so voluntarily ? |
| 5 | I was just wondering should it not have a photograph ? |
| 6 | I , I mean should it not belong on the panel on worship ? |
| 7 | Why should it not concern me ? |
| 8 | But might it not draw you and Peter together ? ’ |
| 9 | Might it not follow that other steps would need to be taken to help curb local unacceptable populations of rats and mice ? |
| 10 | On the other hand , if it came unexpectedly , and from an admired authority figure , the boy 's tutor perhaps , might it not seem like a betrayal of trust ? |
| 11 | If nature has discovered the ‘ best way ’ of producing a sequence of changes that will result in an adult member of Homo sapiens , might it not recapitulate this sequence in the womb ? |
| 12 | Cos it 's a fungus could it not spread from my shoes ? |
| 13 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 14 | Why could it not have been there always , hard and black from the start ? |
| 15 | ‘ Could it not have been something innocent ? ’ |
| 16 | She reflected that if Time had needed to deposit its flotsam on her doorstep , could it not have taken the form of a steady young man who caught the 5.30 train home each evening , and played cricket at the weekends ? |
| 17 | Could it or could it not have a bearing on this present case of murder ? |
| 18 | Could it not trust ? |
| 19 | Would it not make a difference if one identified experience , not with some disposition to overt behaviour , but with the ‘ behaviour ’ of the brain as it ‘ discriminates ’ the various sorts of stimuli within the nervous system ? |
| 20 | Would it not make a wonderful detecting trip to retrace the fellow 's footsteps and survey the ground once denied to us ? |
| 21 | Given the success in getting the Israelis and Palestinians round the table , would it not make more sense for the Government to right that wrong and ensure that , during our presidency from July onwards , we talk directly to the PLO ? |
| 22 | Would it not make more sense to have a moratorium on pit closures in the interests of jobs , the balance of payments and European energy conservation ? |
| 23 | Would it not make administrative sense if at least part of this site could be reserved specifically for the British Library so that in any future extension , these units could be incorporated ? |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | But if , as Thorez implied , the Vietnamese and French Communist Parties should work together , would it not mean that the campaign for national liberation would have to be abandoned ? |
| 26 | Would it not continue to need the hard currency and expertise which a westernised Hong Kong attracted ? |
| 27 | if they if they did this i would it not give them practise at at being able to do the |
| 28 | Since the Opposition , clearly , try to make the worst of the current figures , would it not give a truer picture if we looked at the figures of only five years back ? |
| 29 | If it were imposed on a narrow range of products , would it not encourage substitution ( from plastics to glass , for instance ) ? |
| 30 | Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ? |