Example sentences of "[modal v] [conj] should do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If duties are what you must or should do , wishes are what you want to do . |
| 2 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 3 | Positive reinforcement tells them what they may and should do ; negative reinforcement tells them what they may not and should not do . |
| 4 | It sometimes seemed that the Government was less interested in broadcasting from the point of view of fulfilling the three aims mentioned in the plan than in what it could and should do to publicize its own policies and activities . |
| 5 | They could and should do better for that money . |
| 6 | For example , if users hold excessive expectations about whether accounts can indicate subsequent financial collapse , that will create an expectations gap regardless of what auditors can or should do about it . |
| 7 | What the state can and should do is make sure that tax does not distort the choices involved . |
| 8 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 9 | ‘ It seems to me that there are a number of things we can and should do . |