Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [coord] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The that condition should or would have been drawn to his attention , that is the major factor in this dispute which goes .
2 Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing .
3 The damages will be based on the amount the employee would or could have otherwise earned and the benefits he would have otherwise received during the unexpired term of his contract if he had not been dismissed .
4 The high-tech aspects of AIDS will and must continue .
5 The true cost of these is hidden , i.e. cover at workplace , cost of speakers etc. is minimal by comparison ’ — in general , there will be a limit to the amount of hidden costs any library department can or will want to absorb on training , in the face of competing priorities .
6 During my forthcoming Presidential Year it is my belief , as I know it is yours , that the Institute should and shall continue to look forward into the 90s and beyond and if there is to be a theme , it should quite simply be ‘ The Institute ’ .
7 Miss Williamson , for the bank , submitted that agency only was insufficient to found liability ; there must also be notice on the part of the creditor that undue influence would or might have been exercised .
8 The child can and will learn to express himself better .
9 ‘ But you have acknowledged that the power of such a saint can and will frustrate the malice of evil men .
10 Whether pope and curia can or should win such battles is not for us to say .
11 The PA must and will continue to interpret these regulations fairly and deal firmly with any breaches .
12 That kind of detailed examination could and should go on .
13 4.35 When calculating future loss of earnings and the incidence of tax upon them , it is proper to take into account steps which the plaintiff could and would have taken to minimise his tax liability ( Beach v Reed Corrugated Cases Ltd [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 807 at p814 ) .
14 Manners change , and the verdict must ultimately rest on the jury 's sense of what their own community would or should tolerate on environmental grounds at a particular moment in social history .
15 In the second place , it is clear that she had no idea what effect her remark would or could have had on me .
16 The mix of supply management and last-resort intervention can and will work .
17 Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " .
18 ‘ Long live the High and Mighty Sovereigns , Don Fernando and Doña Juana , Kings of Castile and of Leon and of Aragon , et cetera , in whose names and for the royal crown of Castile I take and assume royal possession corporal and present of these austral seas and lands and coasts and islands with everything annexed to them or which might pertain to them in whatever manner or by whatever reason or title might or could exist , ancient or modem , in times past , present or to come , without gainsay whatsoever .
19 Parliament may have intended that the English court could and should bring before it , and make orders against , a person who has no connection whatever with England save that he entered into a transaction , maybe abroad and in respect of foreign property and in the utmost good faith , with a person who is subject to the insolvency jurisdiction of the English court .
20 Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought .
21 No court can or should give him direction on such a matter .
22 No court can or should give him direction upon such a matter .
23 While it is clear that the court can and will exercise discretion , it is obviously wise to check on the availability of witnesses before setting down .
24 I do not , I must emphasize , quarrel in the slightest with the salutary principle of Ramsay v. IRC that the court can and will ignore sham transactions or the creation of magical and non-existent losses or expenditure by a series of carefully contrived steps in a process of fiscal legerdemain .
25 It shows that the court can and will inquire whether the visitor has jurisdiction to determine the question , i.e. , to enter into the matter .
26 However , it is clear that , in deciding what the words used in an exclusion clause mean , the court can and will take account of the other provisions of the contract ; the clause must be interpreted in its context .
27 That ground has not been strongly urged and I leave it out of account , but so far as the other grounds are concerned I am satisfied that there is validity in that criticism and those are matters which ought to have been taken into account and , being matters which are relevant , in my judgment , that is a reason why this appellate court can and should intervene .
28 All such grants of authority may be expressed in the following manner : if X exists the tribunal may or shall do Y. X may consist of a number of different elements , factual , legal and discretionary .
29 It is very common for a statute to say if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 exist the tribunal may or shall do Y. X 2 and X 3 would , like X 1 , be shorthand descriptions presuming the existence of elements within the bracket .
30 One of the conditions held that ‘ where a youth or girl was being adequately cared for by foster parents or was satisfactorily settled in life with sound views and reliable character … then the Movement might and should reduce , or in some cases discontinue , its welfare work . ’
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