Example sentences of "[vb mod] and [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They surely do not need to be told by the chairmen of the respective parliamentary committees what they should and should not do . |
| 2 | There was much discussion as to who should and should not appear in the prospectus as the management team . |
| 3 | To proscribe beauty and decide what people should and should not like about where they live smacks of arrogance and elitism . |
| 4 | He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and should n't do . |
| 5 | What you should and should n't do ? |
| 6 | One was about to start work in the engineering department of Rover and was already cute enough to know what you should and should n't say to a journalist , especially when it comes to forthcoming developments of the K-series engine . |
| 7 | The usage of ‘ rule ’ by biologists is clearly different from that employed by social scientists when they talk about verbally transmitted instructions for what humans may and may not do . |
| 8 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 9 | These examples are designed to provide members with a guide to what may and may not constitute structured and unstructured CPE . |
| 10 | Those of the royal subjects who ‘ may and will gladly strain themselves ’ were asked to contribute to a loan , which would be repaid within two years . |
| 11 | The Parlement of Bordeaux , for example , gave forcible expression in a remonstrance of May 1757 to the idea that it was the guardian of the ‘ ancient and fundamental laws ’ of France and could and should not register any legislation which infringed these . |
| 12 | The Ecumenical Center for Development argues that short term seminars or consultation in academic centres would be much more fruitful for people with a deep commitment to development who could and should not spend a year away . |
| 13 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 14 | Much has been said about what a Labour Government could and could not do , but I am certain that a Labour Government would set out with the best of intentions to improve the situation . |
| 15 | MGM 's Louis B Mayer even told his artists who they could and could not date . |
| 16 | So those less likely to buy the products knew what these could and could not achieve , whilst potential consumers remained misguided by the original advertisements . |
| 17 | These groups might enter into semi-permanent contracts with academics who had similar interests , and develop rules about who could and could not take part in a ‘ course ’ in a particular ‘ subject ’ and how that ‘ course ’ should be conducted . |
| 18 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 19 | I 've got a very stubborn streak and I discovered that I could n't bear people telling me what I could and could n't eat . |
| 20 | I had the same problem with the doctor and nurses in Styal over what I could and could n't have in the way of eye drops , etc . |
| 21 | On one occasion I had some winter clothes brought in and it did take up literally half the visit , sorting all that out , and arguing about what I could and could n't have . |
| 22 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 23 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 24 | A number of test cases through the Seventies had established precedents for what courts would and would not accept as ‘ fair ’ in existing contracts . |
| 25 | On the other hand , in 1806 no less a person than James Clark , farrier to the King in Scotland , in his First Lines of Veterinary Physiology and Pathology wrote that the healing art , and the art of shoeing , would and should necessarily continue as two linked aspects of a country veterinary practitioner 's work . |
| 26 | I know that the sages often give conflicting advice , that the shrub or bush that you are about to prune looks nothing like the diagram in your hand , and as for the picture on the seed packet — well , enough said , but you do learn from their experience and your own what will and wo n't do well in your particular spot and even , if it does n't sound too fanciful , for your own particular temperament . |
| 27 | That it is so rare is due , in very large part , to the efficiency of the processes whereby the House , particularly the government party , lets it be known what it will and will not tolerate . |
| 28 | Arguments against screening included that other effects of hormone replacement therapy are as or more important when decisions on treatment are made ; that no agreement exists on when and whom to treat ; that measurements vary at different times and with different equipment ; and that there is little separation between the groups who will and will not suffer fracture in terms of bone mass . |
| 29 | But the designer is careful not to specify exactly what will and will not upset others . |
| 30 | ‘ They are really choosy about what they will and will not buy — or rather , have their parents buy for them ! ’ he added . |