Example sentences of "[modal v] it [adv] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should it not be protected ? |
| 2 | Why should it not be left to individual members of the Bar to decide whether they wish to specialise in advocacy ? |
| 3 | The estate had been willed to another prisoner , a distant cousin , on the clear understanding that should it ever be returned to Jewish hands , the monies and profits taken from it would be devoted to the creation of a Zionist state . |
| 4 | Can it be farmed intensively or should it only be reared extensively ? |
| 5 | If it is assumed that the system of corporate enterprise is the most efficient system for the creation of wealth , should it therefore be concluded that corporate power is legitimate ? |
| 6 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 7 | Might it only be rocked by Nan-Nan 's loving hands , she prayed . |
| 8 | On the other hand , could it also be argued that without this form of population control there might be an over-population of some wild species and that nature would have to find some other way of correcting it ? |
| 9 | I always thought the dropping of litter showed a lack of environmental relationship awareness , but could it also be linked with the " defacing " thing in that cities , streets with paving-slabs etc. are sensed by the human as too perfect and devoid of the texturous imperfections that make up the multi-levelled human life experience ? |
| 10 | In neither instance could it reasonably be said that student choice was as wide open as the Shores model would require , and the main area of decision was at what time to go to one 's carrel and enter the process . |
| 11 | Could it not be said the overwhelming factor of modern life is the apathy amongst the majority of its members , which should engender concern regarding the way government is designed ? |
| 12 | But could it not be argued that the RSPCA , and others who carry out such a praiseworthy activity , are interfering with the natural selection process ? |
| 13 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
| 14 | The Government 's arguments do not , however , deal with the question that runs as follows : if the Parliament in Scotland decided to raise taxation , would it not be entitled so to do if a majority in favour of that existed ? |
| 15 | What would it normally be used for ? |
| 16 | Would it now be regarded as economic duress ? |
| 17 | Would it still be considered child sex abuse ? |
| 18 | The question to be asked then is , given that women are unlike Jesus of Nazareth in the form of their humanity , may it not be said that a woman baptized into Christ is not differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ ? |
| 19 | May it never be forgotten . ’ |
| 20 | Will it not be regarded by them and by the regiments as an admission that he is unable to justify on security grounds the cuts that he has made ? |
| 21 | Will it not be found that the political activity of societies consists ordinarily , perhaps invariably , in filling sieves and making sand ropes — sieves which those who fill them half know to be sieves , sand which those who weave it into ropes suspect to be sand after all ? |
| 22 | Will it ever be given us to know ? |
| 23 | Housewives can not be accused of ‘ doing nothing all day ’ ; nor can it legitimately be said that their only ‘ work ’ is ‘ creative ’ and thus intrinsically pleasurable . |
| 24 | Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ? |
| 25 | Similarly , the value of a reinvestigation could be weakened if , instead of co-operating , the suspect leaves his explanation for the trial , when not only can it not be investigated but when it could also cast doubt on the value of any re-investigation that has taken place . |
| 26 | 2 Is the product or sample small enough to slip between the pages of the magazine or can it easily be attached to the front cover ? |
| 27 | A gesture can not be regarded as the expression of an individual , as his or her creation ( because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture , belonging to nobody else ) , nor can it even be regarded as that person 's instrument ; on the contrary , it is gestures that use us as their instruments , as their bearers and incarnations . |
| 28 | Nor , it is submitted , can it properly be regarded as one in pursuance of which possession or ownership passes either . |
| 29 | It seems that the situation we are witnessing is neither the effect of a biological underpinning of sex roles , nor can it simply be seen as the persistence of institutional inequalities . |
| 30 | He considered the focus of the controversy to be the juridical effects of a stipulation made in favour of a third party , which he deconstructed into three questions : can a third party claim directly any such benefit or can it only be claimed through the auspices of a State party ; may the parties to the agreement amend or abolish the stipulation without the consent of the third party ; and need the third party accept the stipulation in order to be vested with the benefit in question ? 120 |