Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because , should they be wounded , or should a small cut become infected , they may temporarily lose peak condition . |
| 2 | Or should the higher levels simply filter out invalid strings ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Or might an innocent acquirer be assailed for failing to satisfy some other requirement ? |
| 5 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Or would a simple injection of resources transform Kafkaesque honeycombs into happy living-spaces , with a consequent decline in inner-city ills ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Or will a new generation of qualified women , some of whom are still keeping open their options , decide that the economic penalties of motherhood outweigh its attractions ? |
| 10 | Will this be based on historical precedent , or will a real effort be made to consider which investments in health care will give the best value for money ? |
| 11 | Or will a cooling hand on the brow be enough ? ’ |
| 12 | Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nor should a serious programme leave unchallenged Mary Kaldor 's hollow phrases about how science should ‘ meet people 's needs ’ . |
| 15 | Nor should the temporary protection which the survey vessel was acquiring by the signalling process extend to any other object in contiguous space . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nor should the continuing need for sexual relationships be overlooked . |
| 18 | Nor should the American example be forgotten . |
| 19 | Nor could a looser grouping of sovereign states cope with the awkward trade-offs which the Western response to Eastern Europe will involve . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nor could the vaunted irrigation scheme be described as an unqualified success . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 24 | Nor would the hard-eyed men from Dublin , if her husband had alerted them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nor would the resulting action be disagreeable . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Nor will a limited partner be able to bind the firm . |