Example sentences of "[vb mod] [coord] [vb mod] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , referring to the contents of a mortgage deed : " If their purpose and nature is found not to be ancillary to the lending of money upon security , as , for example , to make the lending more profitable or safer , but some quite independent purpose , they may and should be independently scrutinised " ( ie subject to the restraint of trade doctrine ) . |
| 2 | But , overall , our crime rate could and should be even lower . |
| 3 | And even though Northern Ireland has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe for theft and burglary , it could and SHOULD be even lower . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , the property market could and should be far more liquid than it is . |
| 5 | Members of Parliament are being asked about such matters as their degree of satisfaction with the quantity and quality of financial information available to them and the extent to which they feel that MPs can and should be closely involved in scrutinising the management of government , together with their ‘ unstructured ’ personal response to the problem of the control of the public administration by the House of Commons . |
| 6 | An objection that can more usefully be discussed here , however , is the general principle formulated by Wimsatt , Beardsley and Brooks , and to some extent shared by Ransom and Tate , that literary criticism can and should be both evaluative and objective . |
| 7 | My opinion is that sex offending can not be cured , but it can and should be better supervised and controlled . |