Example sentences of "can or [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have indicated on page 48 , there are a lot of other things an agency can or might do for you , and lots of departments it could have to do it . |
| 2 | No court can or should give him direction on such a matter . |
| 3 | No court can or should give him direction upon such a matter . |
| 4 | No set of contract conditions can or should protect the seller totally against his own incompetence . |
| 5 | For example , if users hold excessive expectations about whether accounts can indicate subsequent financial collapse , that will create an expectations gap regardless of what auditors can or should do about it . |
| 6 | I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else . |
| 7 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 8 | Whether pope and curia can or should win such battles is not for us to say . |
| 9 | ‘ There is nothing which I can or should say in advance of the inquiry . ’ |
| 10 | It 's all I can or will tell you . |
| 11 | Too many take on too much , for the time they can or will devote . |
| 12 | But there is a third reason for the silence on international issues , namely the fact that there is very little Britain can or will do . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |