Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or should the higher levels simply filter out invalid strings ? |
| 2 | The present supporter of monarchy possesses the implicit themes , which will permit support to be translated into criticism should the monarchy fail to perform its job or should the economic books be seen not to balance . |
| 3 | Could that person obtain advice from people in the armed forces who have legal training , or could the armed forces obtain that sort of advice for the person seeking it ? |
| 4 | Would the common law duties be preserved with the regulatory rules providing an additional layer of investor protection , or would the new rules modify the existing duties ? |
| 5 | Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time ? |
| 6 | Such studies do not give a true reflection of population needs , nor may the clinical indices used to predict survival or estimates of prognosis be applicable in the wider population of patients with severe acute renal failure . |
| 7 | Nor should the temporary protection which the survey vessel was acquiring by the signalling process extend to any other object in contiguous space . |
| 8 | Nor should the ecological impacts of these measures be forgotten , for the unsealing of asphalt surfaces has lead to increases in area of trees , shrubs and plants . |
| 9 | Nor should the continuing need for sexual relationships be overlooked . |
| 10 | Nor should the American example be forgotten . |
| 11 | It is n't being critical at all but on this position situation that might the first thing that we |
| 12 | The problem for the archbishop was that while the king could now expect the clergy to offer subsidies for the defence of the realm , a campaign in Flanders and Gascony did not seem to be defensive of the realm , nor could the French claims to homage for Gascony be immediately construed as imperilling the kingdom . |
| 13 | Nor could the vaunted irrigation scheme be described as an unqualified success . |
| 14 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 15 | Nor would the hard-eyed men from Dublin , if her husband had alerted them . |
| 16 | Yes , there were things she would never experience in life , special things which a man and woman in love might enjoy ; she would never carry Tyler 's child again , nor would the two of them grow old together , content in each other 's love . |
| 17 | Nor would the resulting action be disagreeable . |
| 18 | It further suggested that if Fidelity 's true position had been known , then those shares would not have been purchased nor would the eventual bid have been made at the price paid or at all . |
| 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 | But the solid Swiss world was no phantom , nor would the solar system cease forging steadily through interstellar space : the sun did swing away from our casement , for all that Mary said , for all our forgetting of time , and the baby awoke and cried ; so that Mary , giving me a langourous look , dressed herself carelessly and went down the stairs . |
| 21 | The late part of the lifespan would then lag behind the current optimum more than would the early part , and senescence would be caused by the extra ‘ lag load ’ . |
| 22 | FOR THE title of his last chapter Paul Fussell borrows Walt Whitman 's prediction about the American Civil War , ‘ The real war will never get in the books ’ , and then comments : ‘ Nor will the Second World War , and ‘ books ’ includes this one . ’ |
| 23 | Nor will the second element in the new system of local government support — the central government grant — be open to a similar revision . |
| 24 | Nor will the legal guarantee of freedom of speech be of much use if access to the mass media is severely restricted . |
| 25 | Nor can the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East claim that it would come from growth , because growth is already assumed in our plans . |
| 26 | This suggests that ( like general deterrence ) instrumental denunciation can not justify any particular level of severity of punishment ; nor can the penal system ( as is sometimes fondly imagined ) ‘ give a lead ’ to public opinion about the rights and wrongs of how people should behave . |
| 27 | Thus the person being cared for must be receiving attendance allowance , in recognition that s/he is ‘ severely disabled ’ ; the carer must not be in full-time education or earning ( from April 1992 ) more than £40 a week ; carers can not take more than four weeks ' holiday in any six-month period , nor can the disabled person be in hospital for more than four weeks at a time . |
| 28 | Nor can the living coelacanth suggest an answer , for today it never leaves its deep waters . |
| 29 | Nor can the best overall decisions in the long term be achieved by considering piecemeal whether a particular parcel of land is allocated to forestry or retained in agriculture . |
| 30 | Now the detailed structure of these lexical sets in English and French , although of intense concern to students of English and French , can not be generalised to other sets ; nor can the semantic contrast ‘ have an experience in a particular perceptual mode ’ v . |