Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was questioned by members of the parish council ; if the area behind the post office is to be used for staff parking , should not a separate planning application to this effect be made ? |
| 2 | Why should not a little boy with a feminine side play dollies with the girls ? |
| 3 | Bearing in mind the millions of pounds that the Government raised from privatisations — the selling of the family silver — and all the money that has been raked into the Treasury , should not the Economic Secretary stand at the Dispatch Box and apologise for the economic mess in which the Government have landed this country ? |
| 4 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 5 | At any rate , should not the New Testament material be studied critically and carefully with these questions in mind ? |
| 6 | Should not the Labour party occasionally pause and think before announcing ridiculous objectives which would cost so many British jobs ? |
| 7 | The question therefore arises that if the system or the people operating it are not effective , should not the whole organisation be scrapped ? |
| 8 | If , for example , to carry out a particular operation meant further long-term treatment , this must enter the equation ; as must also the comparative cost in caring for the patient without the particular treatment . |
| 9 | Therefore , why should n't a rational person be able to head a company , just the same as a figures man , who is also a rational person ? ’ |
| 10 | Why should n't the poor thing get angry , going deaf as he did ? ’ |
| 11 | Everybody else enjoys shopping why should n't the deaf community enjoy it as well ? ’ |
| 12 | Mr Enright asked : ‘ If a principal duty of government is the prevention of crime , has n't this government failed spectacularly and should n't the Prime Minister immediately announce he will set up a Royal Commission to make urgent proposals to prevent this ? |
| 13 | Should n't the over-riding aim of conservation be the saving of natural species and ecosystems , regardless of how much unnatural management this may entail ? |
| 14 | The fragment was must likely the left clavicle or collarbone of a hominoid , he said . Boaz says that he has done no more than suggest that the 75–5 mm bone , found in March 1979 at Sahabi in Libya , was from the ‘ superfamily ’ Hominoidea |
| 15 | Others have been suggested : to prevent the conduct of government business being unduly hampered and delayed by ‘ excessive ’ litigation ; to reduce the risk that civil servants will behave in over-cautious and unhelpful ways in dealing with citizens for fear of being sued if things go wrong ; to ration scarce judicial resources ; to ensure that the argument on the merits is presented in the best possible way , by a person with a real interest in presenting it ( but quality of presentation and personal interest do not always go together ) ; to ensure that people do not meddle paternalistically in the affairs of others ( query : can representative applicants be accused of this ? ) ; to ensure that the applicant has a personal interest not just an ideological concern in the outcome ( but , query , may not a genuine concern for the interests of others be neither purely personal nor purely ideological ? ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Why may not a whole estate be thrown into a kind of garden ? ’ asked Joseph Addison in 1712 . |
| 17 | Yeah might just a little banker ! |
| 18 | Might n't a European Treaty Organisation , either in NATO or in place of it , be able one day to do the protection-cum-deterrence job that America does today ? |
| 19 | ‘ Might n't a lacy bra or sheer stockings have erotic appeal less because they are symbols of female powerlessness and more because they are familiar symbols of female sexuality ? ’ |
| 20 | A kitchen tends to fall into one of three categories depending on its physical limitations and your life pattern : it may be designed purely as a work room when all the other family activities go on in other rooms ; or it may be a room where the work is done and some or all family meals are taken ; or finally it may bc the real centre of the house , where work is done , meals are taken and where the family congregates . |
| 21 | Sad really , but I 'd rather the impotent ramblings appeared in the Spectator and left the Guardian to those of us who enjoy reading it . |
| 22 | Could not a similar method be adopted within the Palace of Westminster ? |
| 23 | What could not a miracle-working saint achieve for the future glory of Ramsey ? |
| 24 | Could not a free seaman in Port Philip properly have taken full advantage of a seller 's market ? |
| 25 | Could not the European Community learn something from north America , where a tariff-free trade area , consisting of Canada and the United States and soon to be joined by Mexico , has been created ? |
| 26 | Even when Mr McQueen said that since Asia Minor had been populated by Celts , could not the same religion have come with the Celts to Skye , Johnson defied him , and the point he made remains valid to this day . |
| 27 | Furthermore , could not the very reproduction of the species itself be regarded as depending on a form of memory — genetic memory , the apparent capacity of the DNA , transmitted between parent and offspring , to carry the rules for the future accurate development of the new organism ? |
| 28 | Well , I , I do n't I 'd ever the whole booking . |
| 29 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 30 | Now this is the first weekend Kate we 'd really a good weekend you know I 've worked and worked and last weekend I could do nothing . |