Example sentences of "can [conj] must " in BNC.

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1 That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer .
2 One particularly important design decision is the choice of word length , since this affects how instructions are stored , the number of bits which are used to specify operation codes and addressing modes , and what data formats can or must be provided ( for example , double-length working may be a necessity , if a short word length is chosen ) .
3 ‘ We can and must fight to see that the fruit of labour remains in the hands of those who work , and that work does not turn into punishment . ’
4 To this extent and in this way the English distrust of the professional writer can and must be vindicated .
5 What has happened in the past half century , apart from the advance of technology , has been the erection of a firm framework of regulation , the appearance of specific safety technologies , such as industrial hygiene , and the advance of the idea that safety can and must be managed .
6 ‘ Peaceful co-operation between them can and must develop .
7 For purposes of litigation , it is true , an infant can and must be represented by an adult , who will be called ‘ the next friend ’ of an infant plaintiff , the ‘ guardian ad litem ’ of an infant defendant ; but such a next friend or guardian represents the infant only for the purposes of the particular lawsuit , and is not necessarily , though he is commonly , the infant 's parent or general guardian .
8 Chapter 3 : Nature conservation : economic aspects considers the economic aspects of nature protection , and stresses that scientific and technological progress can be achieved and can and must reduce the cost of the recovery and that these costs are borne in mind at the planning stage .
9 Holy place can and must be changed
10 Second , the deliberate stress on what we can and must do when we doubt is designed to fence off what we can not and must never do .
11 The first is the support to be given to what women can and must do to unfold the full meaning of marriage and motherhood .
12 In this way the lawyer has a part to play within political movements , such as the peace movement , while acknowledging that it is not law alone that can bring about the changes we desire , but it is that movement as a whole that can and must do so .
13 It is therefore important for the peace movement to penetrate and politicise the apparently technical arguments of the ‘ experts ’ , and to demonstrate that there is no technical inevitability , but they are social problems to which human solutions can and must be found .
14 Vogler argues that these are very real dangers ( although in his view they can and must be overcome ) .
15 There are positive steps — personal , social , national and international — which can and must be taken to prevent further spread of the virus .
16 What you can and must do , however , is ensure that all the investigators are expert in every sense in the techniques of investigation and au fait with all aspects of operating modern aircraft , particularly the large public transport types , but they must also have access to reliable and impartial specialists in the type of aircraft concerned .
17 The state is still seen as an instrument which can and must be captured by the working class .
18 thus one can and must say … that each fight is the singularisation of all the circumstances of the social whole in movement and that by this singularisation , it incarnates the enveloping totalization which the historical process is .
19 If this knowledge is disseminated widely , and not restricted to already powerful groups , sociology can and must aid members of society to act more knowledgeably , more rationally , with more self-understanding ; it will be a tool aiding people to build themselves a better society .
20 It is here that the notion of contract plays its vital role — not the doctrines of contract law , which in many respects are as arid and unsupportive of commercial activity as a dedicated anti-capitalist could imagine — rather , contract as practice , as putting into words what the parties can and must do , and if need be adjusting , or excluding , particular rules of law .
21 But the imagination can and must be controlled and concentration on whatever one is employed in at the moment will counteract the natural animal instinct of fear .
22 And yet , within the artificial world that the laboratory enables one to create , we can and must isolate the variables , and , if we are clever and lucky enough , we can discover how to fit them back into some meaningful real-life pattern .
23 He stressed that in this matter ‘ these countries can and must be understood ’ .
24 The Consortium ( including CPRW ) will have to decide what further action can and must be taken .
25 This can and must be done through the imposition , by the Secretary of State , of a statutory duty on MPAs to review such permissions over the next four years .
26 They can and must change their own lives and the lives of those around them .
27 Our position is that the problem arising from the activities of the Mandela Football Club can and must be resolved within the ambit of the democratic movement as a whole , both at local and national levels .
28 Kuusinen quoted to them the obligations imposed by the Whitsun Conference decision : We propose that the following questions be raised for discussion in all the organisations of the ILP. ( l ) What concrete mass actions on the basis of the united front of the C.P.G.B. and the ILP can and must be carried out in the near future with the aim of a successful struggle for a 10% wage increase , against the Means Test , and other similar partial demands advanced by the C.P.G.B. and the ILP ? ( 2 ) Is it desirable for the ILP to join the Communist International as a Party sympathising with Communism with the right to a consultative vote … ?
29 And I see , as Hubert does , that the sea must be our frontier , but within that frontier we can and must be a unity .
30 Hence philosophical analysis can and must proceed by erm philosophical thinking must proceed by analysis , by breaking down complex wholes into their simple parts and building them up by construction out of these simple parts , a conviction to which Russell remained true for the rest of his life .
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