Example sentences of "can [conj] should [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 32 | Logically , the distinction between the two aspects of the theory can and should be made . |
| 33 | Katell Keineg is a marvellous talent , sadly misplaced by her last record company , someone who can and should be an exception to all the Irish acts who make one dowdy album that does n't sell . |
| 34 | Even with interests , it ought not to be casually assumed that all interests are automatically legitimate , or that compromises can and should be made to accommodate them . |
| 35 | Such a rehabilitation programme can and should be combined with the general medical care of convalescing patients including exercise testing for risk stratification and consideration for further investigation with a view to possible coronary surgery or angioplasty . |
| 36 | Although it may not always be possible or necessary to quantify these factors , information can and should be collected about all of them . |
| 37 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 38 | It is in a sense a part of the issue of children 's language development and links can and should be made . |
| 39 | Pluralist approaches argue , in contrast to Marxist approaches , that political power can and should be regarded as analytically distinct from economic power and that , in contrast to both elite and Marxist approaches , power is not concentrated in the hands of a single group , but relatively widely dispersed among a variety of groups and actors . |
| 40 | The notion that there is a realm of public or political authority which can and should be separated from economic relationships is a pervasive one throughout Western political thought . |
| 41 | Although improved resources are a pre-requisite for the necessary level of services , a start can and should be made to adapt service delivery models within present levels . |
| 42 | Discuss the evidence which suggests that in order to be effective , a manager can and should be flexible in the choice of his managerial style . |
| 43 | I think that today the result can and should be achieved by the application of the law of negligence … |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Peter Schmidt of the Stiftung Wissenschaft Politik at Ebenhausen , a leading expert on European defence and security issues , has identified the formulation of a Common Foreign and Security policy as the product of a ‘ top-down approach ’ which ‘ regards the political union of Western Europe within the framework of the EC as an end in itself ’ , rather than of a ‘ functional or horizontal approach ’ which ‘ asks in a practical way which defence functions can and should be handled in a Western European framework , which ones can remain attached to existing defence arrangements — above all that means Nato — and which ones can stay at the disposal of nation states ’ . |
| 46 | My opinion is that sex offending can not be cured , but it can and should be better supervised and controlled . |
| 47 | However , I am not sure that everybody who looked at what can and should be done in the Province would necessarily agree with all the elements of the policy that he put forward . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | It can and should be argued that most of the performance measures so far developed are , however , measures of research output rather than of administrative efficiency . |
| 50 | His idea was that social phenomena can and should be measured in a way similar to the way physical properties , such as size , weight and temperature , are measured . |
| 51 | The judgment , for example , that the sample size is sufficient and the observed difference so great that chance may be dismissed can and should be made when one is confident that the decision is ‘ obvious ’ . |
| 52 | Talk of problem-solving becomes translated into a message to pupils that all matters of controversy can and should be resolved ; the idea that not everything is a problem to be solved is barely entertained . |
| 53 | The induction into beliefs and values separated from all that is religiously controversial or ill-fitting in a secularist , pluralist world , which the HCF model sees as the focus of RE , is performing a valuable educational service , but it is one which can and should be shared by the school as a whole , and every subject-area in it . |
| 54 | First , a distinction can and should be made between judging a belief or behaviour , and judging a person — we can affirm a person as a person without condoning his/her beliefs or behaviour . |
| 55 | Those few students who require a highly specialized training in computer-aided research skills , can and should be taught by historians though the provision need not be available at every single university . |
| 56 | The twelve environment ministers of the European Community have agreed that market forces can and should be used to environmental ends , but they failed to decide on the measures to be used or what the environmental ends should be . |
| 57 | All these matters can and should be tackled in the partnership agreement in a way that , whilst not excluding sufficient flexibility to make the particular arrangements fit the precise circumstances of a partner 's departure , at any rate eliminates doubt as to the broad basis from which negotiations should start . |
| 58 | Nevertheless , the option can and should be protected by notice or caution on the register . |
| 59 | In complicated cases , the schedule can and should be drafted by counsel . |
| 60 | File management systems can and should be directed to ensuring that no work is done that will not be paid for by the Legal Aid Board . |