Example sentences of "[vb mod] the [noun] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why should the crown possess this mystic attribute of being able to contain and confer sovereignty ? |
| 2 | Why , after all , should the Germans derive any satisfaction from the task of giving to the victors that which they themselves had worked so hard to build up ? |
| 3 | ‘ Should the thief read this and comprehend the distress he has caused as well as the futility of his action , if he organises the return of our parts , perhaps through a third party , then we will take no further action . ’ |
| 4 | ( 20 ) Jesus said in effect , " Why should the man have this deformity one day longer than he need ? |
| 5 | Should the attackers overcome these obstacles they would then be caught in deadly crossfire from archers positioned on the next series of walls and towers protecting the central core . |
| 6 | How should the school tackle this problem ? |
| 7 | Why should the CIB undertake this role ? |
| 8 | In the spirit of ‘ why should the devil have all the best tunes ? ’ , why should young children have all the best pictures ? |
| 9 | After all colleagues , General Booth , the founder of the Salvation Army said , why should the devil have all the best tunes ? |
| 10 | This provides no impediment to the exclusion of evidence under sections 76 or 78 of PACE should the facts merit such exclusion , for those sections can be triggered without any express breach being shown . |
| 11 | Should the parties agree that time is to be of the essence ? |
| 12 | Should the term mean more than just a circumscribed spatial area ? |
| 13 | A.1 Why should the Vendor give any warranties at all ? |
| 14 | In addition to being distasteful , the monarch is warningly coloured with black and orange stripes , should the bluejay need another reminder . |
| 15 | Should the tank have any other filter media ? |
| 16 | Neither should the doctor do more than is reasonably necessary in the interests of the patient . |
| 17 | Why should the commission believe that advanced mousetrap manufacture , say , should be represented in at least two member states when one manufacturer might supply the whole of Europe with the products and thus could be better placed to export as well ? |
| 18 | They question the theoretical basis of this approach , arguing that not only might the driver treat this as a challenge to driving skill , but that in the trade off between caution and speed , the driver could equally strike a bargain on the side of risk , especially where the shared space is lengthy . |
| 19 | In time not only might the Americans receive more help from Britain , but also other European states might follow her lead in assisting the United States in its role of world police-officer . |
| 20 | Could the law do more ? |
| 21 | But could the discussion do any good ? |
| 22 | How could the brain perform such a calculation ? |
| 23 | Nor could the exchange avoid these sort of issues by simply granting itself a general power to do whatever it wanted . |
| 24 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 25 | How would the judges discover this political morality ? |
| 26 | ‘ Would the builder mind that ? ’ |
| 27 | Would the Chancellor reconsider that decision because , when he next goes to the Duchy of Lancaster he may go to confession and admit to the untruths that are being told by his party in party-political broadcasts ? |
| 28 | Nor would the view serve any purpose , including the purpose for which it was devised , if it were no more than the idea that particular episodes of consciousness-say desiring-can be identified by their causal roles , where such identification does not give us their nature , or all of their nature . |
| 29 | How , picking up on the terms you use Professor Lock , how would the policy guarantee that what this elephant was special ? |
| 30 | And only with extreme reluctance would the Commission agree that pollution should be reduced . |