Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [coord] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Shares which the holder may or will be required to redeem are also not equity shares , since they do not form part of the residual interest in the company .
2 It will be the main task of Part Four of the book to explore the rationality of perfectionist moral pluralism , i.e. of pluralism of many forms of the good which are admitted to be so many valuable expressions of people 's nature , but pluralism which allows that certain conceptions of the good are worthless and demeaning , and that political action may and should be taken to eradicate or at least curtail them .
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 The Consortium ( including CPRW ) will have to decide what further action can and must be taken .
5 It is therefore important for the peace movement to penetrate and politicise the apparently technical arguments of the ‘ experts ’ , and to demonstrate that there is no technical inevitability , but they are social problems to which human solutions can and must be found .
6 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 .
7 I think that today the result can and should be achieved by the application of the law of negligence …
8 Our position is that the problem arising from the activities of the Mandela Football Club can and must be resolved within the ambit of the democratic movement as a whole , both at local and national levels .
9 Any complaint of want of particularity could and should be dealt with by appropriate directions in the third party proceedings .
10 Including a review of material already published about women and philosophy , she distinguishes between female , feminine and feminist points of view , and then , focusing on the first of these , she considers how philosophy could or would be affected by the inclusion of more women in its institutional structures .
11 Guild women have fully recognized what useful and important citizens ' work can and should be done by working women .
12 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 ’ .
13 In both , it is assumed that the criminal law can and should be used to protect or to reinforce moral principles .
14 He stressed that in this matter ‘ these countries can and must be understood ’ .
15 On the other hand , because the perfect answer is not always immediately available does not mean that the whole exercise can or should be abandoned as a foolish pipe-dream .
16 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 .
17 The report demonstrated that Britain 's cities could and should be improved from the point of view of economic .
18 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 .
19 3 ) Desire must and can be stopped .
20 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 .
21 For purposes of litigation , it is true , an infant can and must be represented by an adult , who will be called ‘ the next friend ’ of an infant plaintiff , the ‘ guardian ad litem ’ of an infant defendant ; but such a next friend or guardian represents the infant only for the purposes of the particular lawsuit , and is not necessarily , though he is commonly , the infant 's parent or general guardian .
22 A classic way of finding out how much of your own job can and should be delegated is to put someone in charge while you are away .
23 Holy place can and must be changed
24 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 .
25 But the imagination can and must be controlled and concentration on whatever one is employed in at the moment will counteract the natural animal instinct of fear .
26 What has happened in the past half century , apart from the advance of technology , has been the erection of a firm framework of regulation , the appearance of specific safety technologies , such as industrial hygiene , and the advance of the idea that safety can and must be managed .
27 Moreover , the theory that the pace of colonial development should and could be controlled effectively from Whitehall was soon disproved .
28 RURAL WALES Comment Column : How environmental education must and can be improved in Wales
29 Of course , it is difficult to pre-empt a jury 's or judge 's decision on damages , but the fact that a very rich plaintiff might hand over his damages to charity should and could be taken into account in any assessment .
30 But Macmillan ( who became prime minister in January 1957 ) firmly decided that the special relationship could and should be rebuilt .
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