Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was there anything else , or may I go ? ’ |
| 2 | Are you discussing business , or may I join you ? ’ |
| 3 | I 'm honoured to get your letter , your Highness ( or may I call you Harry ? ) but you fail to say which of Her Majesty 's fish are off-colour . |
| 4 | Or may it stand as it is , and ought to be ? ’ |
| 5 | Is this a valid belief , or should one regard society and politics also as being essentially local in character ? |
| 6 | Should it be , ‘ Has it authority in all matters ? ’ , or should one ask a separate question regarding its authority in matters of taxation , or perhaps one should inquire separately concerning its authority in matters of corporate taxation and personal taxation ? |
| 7 | The designers were facing the question : - Can the search space be kept within manageable proportions until this disambiguating information is reached , or should one try to find the ‘ narrow ’ point and start from there ? |
| 8 | Or should one take a middle road , trying to understand what goes wrong and then deciding whether it is easier to prevent or to cure ? |
| 9 | The East German crisis — or should one say simply the German crisis ? — is thus essentially a political crisis , and the answers to it , if there are answers , must also be political . |
| 10 | So , in the end ( or should one say ‘ at the beginning' ? ) it comes down to the health of the living soil . |
| 11 | Perhaps the strangest talisman — and one ( or should one say many … ? ) which made those initiates feel themselves intimately a part of the Fists — was kept in a long crypt below the Reclusiam , reached by a dropshaft which would incinerate anyone who did not sport a Black Carapace beneath their skin . |
| 12 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 13 | ‘ I must say all this is rather terrifying for me — these card indexes and things — or should one say indices ? — I never know . ’ |
| 14 | Should one take sample cross-sections of the material on an ad hoc or regular time basis , or should one attempt to capture the ‘ record ’ in its entirety ? |
| 15 | Should further credit be refused ? or should we acquiesce in this involuntary trade credit to retain business ? |
| 16 | Should we help blues singers to find a wider audience , outside the coloured quarters of Southern towns , or should we leave them where they are , that the blues may thrive ? |
| 17 | And how do we rescue particular places , or should we leave them to decay ? |
| 18 | Anyway it bring 's back the age old question , should we play Batty when he comes back or should we leave well enough alone ? |
| 19 | Or should we leave it on pretty late , turn it off later ? |
| 20 | Or should we continue to accept the anomaly ? |
| 21 | As Cliff Drysdale , former top player turned television commentator , in chairing the seminar , put it , the two questions needing to be addressed are ‘ Is there a problem and if so , what can or should we do about it ? ’ |
| 22 | Is that down to us or should we notify the division to make contact |
| 23 | Or should we give them back their dignity , their freedom and their rightful place in the natural order of the world 's rivers and oceans ? |
| 24 | However , should we decide to consider the Bill in a Committee of the whole House , the first set of amendments tabled by the Opposition — should the Opposition win the vote or should we accede to them — would torpedo the Bill below the water line and sink it lock , stock and barrel . |
| 25 | Can we or should we attempt to teach turn-taking ? |
| 26 | Are all children and me , and adults who have been baptised members of the church ? is not or you 'll be actually encouraged or pressured to misinterpret the membership or should we wait for them to be informed er er , to wait for them to , to feel the ? |
| 27 | Or should we limit ourselves only to those who were prepared to engage actively on behalf of the cause ? |
| 28 | Is this correct or should we allow different styles for different boats ? |
| 29 | In the view of many discerning pop fans , The Farm are , of course , shite , the most recent and worst atrocity being their ‘ reading ’ ( or should we say brief flick through , glancing at the pictures ) of ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ , which , contrary to popular belief , is not entirely a third-rate copy of the Human League original . |
| 30 | The formulae ( ‘ it seemed good ’ , ‘ straight away ’ ) are aped from ‘ city ’ terminology ( and note the deme agora , something normally characteristic of a polis , cp. p. 66 ) — or should we say that the city aped the demes ? |