Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since petrochemicals are , by definition , derived from crude oil or gas , must not the concept of a secure supply base also embrace these ? |
| 2 | ‘ If I may venture , ’ said Earl Robert deprecatingly , ‘ why should not the oracle that has spoken of two brothers be asked to send us a further sign ? |
| 3 | However , given the claim of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , in response to the hon. Member for Ealing , North ( Mr. Greenway ) , about lower inflation , should not the Chancellor have a little more regard for board rooms where , in the balance between optimism and pessimism , the state of opinion remains distinctly negative , than for the exigencies of the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 4 | Should not the Chancellor hang his head in shame and resign now , and let the Labour party get on with bringing this country back to the richness that it deserves ? |
| 5 | Should not the Minister introduce video recording of all interrogations ? |
| 6 | Should not the Minister give mineworkers an apology ? |
| 7 | Since that is nothing short of a swindle , should not the Minister stop it ? |
| 8 | Is not THORP capable of destroying the world , and should not the Minister show some courage as well as some sense and phase out plutonium production ? |
| 9 | Should not the money be used instead to deal with rapists , murderers and muggers in my constituency and in other parts of Greater London today ? |
| 10 | Should not the Government enforce the statutory responsibilities of local authorities ? |
| 11 | Should not the Government act with similar urgency to remedy that situation ? |
| 12 | Should not the Government grasp that opportunity ? |
| 13 | Should not the Government be considering places where rail and air communications are poor and where the reduction in the defence programme is causing employment problems ? |
| 14 | Should not every employee have that right and should not the Government therefore scrap the two-year rule , or are the Government determined to keep up their sweat-shop policies , contrary to what is happening in the rest of Europe ? |
| 15 | Should not the Government , in the last few days of their existence , bring to bear upon the Iranian Government the utter condemnation that is felt by the people of the United Kingdom for the disgraceful action in imposing a death threat on a British citizen in the capital of the United Kingdom ? |
| 16 | If the precedent sale was at the request of the defendant , who later made the express promise of the guarantee , why should not the guarantee have been enforceable under Lampleigh v. Brathwait ? |
| 17 | So should not the law be changed immediately to prevent the likes of Dr Cox ending up in the dock ? |
| 18 | If I am correct , should not the Institute , although not a company , also have regard to s 245 of the Companies Act ? |
| 19 | If teachers can not be trusted to organise schools in the interests of their pupils , should not the state restrict their autonomy ? |
| 20 | Instead of indulging in sterile exchanges of statistics across the Chamber , should not the House decide whether the level of investment in this country is adequate to ensure that our manufacturing base can compete against other countries ? |
| 21 | We are unable to get addresses of our so it 's word of mouth how we , how we er include , but why should not the employer send to all pensioners and deferred pensioners notices about the associations . |
| 22 | Should not the costs of check-up tests and the associated costs be scrapped ? |
| 23 | Should not the entropy change for the reaction therefore be positive-as required by the second law of thermodynamics ? |
| 24 | If the principle is accepted that the Audit Commission appoints private sector auditors of health and local authorities , why should not the C & AG appoint the auditors of the nationalized industries and other public bodies ? |
| 25 | Should not the regulator ensure that the extra costs for higher cost plant are not passed to consumers ? |
| 26 | Should not the priority be investment to improve the quality of services ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why should n't the girl do something for her keep ? |
| 28 | ( And why should n't the kind of holism that I am espousing not help to make processes such as mental imagery more intelligible to us — Piaget published a number of experiments on the development of imagery . ) |
| 29 | Should n't the rest of the world now actively help these talks ? |
| 30 | Why should n't the women of Greenham be treated like the heroines fighting for freedom in Romania ? ’ |