Example sentences of "could and [modal v] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period immediately following upon the end of the war had been characterised by the belief that expenditure on education was not just necessary or worthy' but essential : through education , society could and would be transformed . |
| 2 | National service , imposed sacrifice and sharing , points and queues , idealism in the face of a pernicious enemy , the dynamics of coalition — all contributed to the sense that , in education as elsewhere , something could and must be done . |
| 3 | From my interviews with the arts teachers during the survey it was apparent that , even though there were criticisms of certain aspects of the philosophy underlying the issue of examinations in particular , there was clearly a widespread belief that children 's work in the arts could and should be assessed and examined . |
| 4 | One of the arguments used to justify this result was that the Attorney-General 's decision could and should be questioned , if at all , only in Parliament . |
| 5 | Although it was impossible to describe such a society in a detailed way , some of its main features could and should be indicated . |
| 6 | aspirants had been , in a sense , responsible for securing , and which could and should be made much more widely available . |
| 7 | Enlightenment now revealed what could and should be done , planned town life offering ‘ Beauty , Health and Convenience ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 8 | We also assumed that from the age of 14 able pupils could and should be reading from a range of books written for adults , so the number of suitable authors would make any list quite impracticable . |
| 9 | When persecution died down , many wished for restoration , and there were sharp disagreements about the terms , conditions , and proper authority under which restoration could and should be granted . |
| 10 | Without in any way disavowing his previous stress on bureaucracies as essential to the administration of a modern state , Weber nonetheless concluded that the will of parliamentary elites could and should be imposed upon them . |
| 11 | There are some practices who could and should be giving thrombolytic therapy , there are others that can not and should not . |
| 12 | Many could and should be dealt with by local authorities and councillors and by such agencies as citizens advice bureaux , welfare rights centres , the social services and voluntary aid organizations . |
| 13 | Any complaint of want of particularity could and should be dealt with by appropriate directions in the third party proceedings . |
| 14 | Many services do not need to be provided by local authorities ; they could and should be put out to competitive tender to be provided by private contractors — from refuse collection to school meals provision and old people 's homes . |
| 15 | Before the massacre , he had allowed Hong Kong 's sympathies for the Peking protests to flow freely , judging that demonstrations could and should be allowed to proceed without police interference . |
| 16 | The report demonstrated that Britain 's cities could and should be improved from the point of view of economic . |
| 17 | I am well aware that much could and should be improved and reformed . |
| 18 | That is , they believed that the civil state could and should be used to enforce religious conformity . |
| 19 | Joseph Chamberlain 's earlier recognition that working people could and should be seduced away from independent political action by state welfare measures was taken up by Lloyd George and Winston Churchill , as the need became more urgent due to the Labour success in the election of 1906 and to industrial militancy after 1909 . |
| 20 | But Macmillan ( who became prime minister in January 1957 ) firmly decided that the special relationship could and should be rebuilt . |
| 21 | But there were many , including senior ministers , who were highly critical of her decision to continue and believed that despite it she could and should be persuaded to stand down . |
| 22 | We are still culturally invisible around the issue of HIV , at a time when we could and should be educating against all forms of homophobia , as well as sharing information with each other to protect ourselves and others . |
| 23 | Of course , there are national measures , and indeed local measures , which could and should be taken . |
| 24 | Anything from groceries to videos could and can be ordered without evening moving from your living room . ’ |