Example sentences of "or [modal v] we [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should further credit be refused ? or should we acquiesce in this involuntary trade credit to retain business ? |
| 2 | Should we help blues singers to find a wider audience , outside the coloured quarters of Southern towns , or should we leave them where they are , that the blues may thrive ? |
| 3 | And how do we rescue particular places , or should we leave them to decay ? |
| 4 | Anyway it bring 's back the age old question , should we play Batty when he comes back or should we leave well enough alone ? |
| 5 | Or should we leave it on pretty late , turn it off later ? |
| 6 | Or should we continue to accept the anomaly ? |
| 7 | As Cliff Drysdale , former top player turned television commentator , in chairing the seminar , put it , the two questions needing to be addressed are ‘ Is there a problem and if so , what can or should we do about it ? ’ |
| 8 | Is that down to us or should we notify the division to make contact |
| 9 | Or should we give them back their dignity , their freedom and their rightful place in the natural order of the world 's rivers and oceans ? |
| 10 | However , should we decide to consider the Bill in a Committee of the whole House , the first set of amendments tabled by the Opposition — should the Opposition win the vote or should we accede to them — would torpedo the Bill below the water line and sink it lock , stock and barrel . |
| 11 | Can we or should we attempt to teach turn-taking ? |
| 12 | Are all children and me , and adults who have been baptised members of the church ? is not or you 'll be actually encouraged or pressured to misinterpret the membership or should we wait for them to be informed er er , to wait for them to , to feel the ? |
| 13 | Or should we limit ourselves only to those who were prepared to engage actively on behalf of the cause ? |
| 14 | Is this correct or should we allow different styles for different boats ? |
| 15 | In the view of many discerning pop fans , The Farm are , of course , shite , the most recent and worst atrocity being their ‘ reading ’ ( or should we say brief flick through , glancing at the pictures ) of ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ , which , contrary to popular belief , is not entirely a third-rate copy of the Human League original . |
| 16 | The formulae ( ‘ it seemed good ’ , ‘ straight away ’ ) are aped from ‘ city ’ terminology ( and note the deme agora , something normally characteristic of a polis , cp. p. 66 ) — or should we say that the city aped the demes ? |
| 17 | Should we not first see how this or should we say , look let's go for it now because I mean you know , we 've been going now some years , what another year because |
| 18 | In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ? |
| 19 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 20 | gas on or should we turn the lights on so we can get the |
| 21 | Or should we ask instead if the General really made a habit of such manual labour ? |
| 22 | Should we conceptualize local politics as merely denoting local voting behaviour , or should we include geographical variations in a range of political activity and experience ? |
| 23 | Should we take account of only the material standards of village life or should we include such an apparently ephemeral notion as what is colloquially referred to as ‘ community spirit ’ , the sense of identity and belonging , which the inhabitants feel ? |
| 24 | All other doctrines are very secondary to that , and the question is are we to express that reality or must we continue to obscure it . |
| 25 | ‘ Will it tell us , ’ Jane asked uneasily , ‘ or must we ask it ? ’ |
| 26 | Do we know , or could we speculate on Gazza 's asking price ? |
| 27 | Or shall we decant it into a bucket ? |
| 28 | written question or shall we give them a written answer ? |
| 29 | What shall we post it or shall we give it to her ? |
| 30 | Or shall we borrow the Waylands ’ cottage ? |