Example sentences of "can [conj] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic question with regard to birth parents is first , whether they can or should be encouraged to release the child emotionally on the belief that this is the only way for the child to become attached to his new family . |
| 2 | No court can or should give him direction on such a matter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it is also emphasized that professional competence is not something that can or should be taken for granted , and that the intimate knowledge of the carer-counsellor can often be as useful as the most vaunted professional . |
| 5 | As Cliff Drysdale , former top player turned television commentator , in chairing the seminar , put it , the two questions needing to be addressed are ‘ Is there a problem and if so , what can or should we do about it ? ’ |
| 6 | The point at issue is whether such affective , and essentially subjective , aspects of educational and personal development can or should be subjected to formal recognition in the certification process . |
| 7 | Whether pope and curia can or should win such battles is not for us to say . |
| 8 | In this article I shall look at what has been proposed by the GMC , whether this can or should be implemented , what the interested parties think about the recommendations , and whether there are any other ways of ensuring that newly qualified doctors are not put off their careers completely before they have properly begun . |
| 9 | No court can or should give him direction upon such a matter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I do not consider that the fact that Parliament has legislated extensively in this area means that no principle of recovery at common law can or should at this stage of the development of the law be found to exist . |
| 13 | No matter how they are dressed up , modernized or staffed by well-meaning people , there is not a single prison in Britain that we can or should be proud of . |
| 14 | It is also simple-minded to assert that everyone can or should be involved in the complexities of designing universities or opera houses . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No set of contract conditions can or should protect the seller totally against his own incompetence . |
| 17 | But it is doubtful if the problem can or should be solved with spending cuts alone . |
| 18 | But it is doubtful if the problem can or should be solved with spending cuts alone . |
| 19 | ‘ There is nothing which I can or should say in advance of the inquiry . ’ |
| 20 | I believe the Chartered Institute of Transport , who launched TRANSAID , and all the sponsors can be well satisfied in the knowledge that the concept continues to fulfil a very valuable role in support of S.C.F. However it is clear that the need for help and guidance with transport management and operations in needy countries is much wider than that which can or should be tackled by S.C.F. Whether this has or should have any implications for the future status and role of TRANSAID is certainly an issue we shall be addressing with our parties as we enter our sixth year . |
| 21 | However , when necessary , choreographers can and should create a particular style that is perhaps based on a mixture of the above but that is , in the final analysis , a style suitable for one ballet only . |
| 22 | For example : to move from one foot to two in any glissade , it can and should be when first studied a smooth gliding movement as it is when Albrecht gently draws Giselle to sit on the bench before telling her of his love . |
| 23 | What the state can and should do is make sure that tax does not distort the choices involved . |
| 24 | For that violation they can and should be made to pay . ’ |
| 25 | But he showed no sign of carrying out his threat that ‘ they can and should be made to pay ’ . |
| 26 | Other factors , such as oxygen supply and the concentration of other nutrients , can and should be adjusted both in the aboveground reactors and the subsurface to enhance the overall process . |
| 27 | How long this can and should , go on is the question which has to be asked , and answered . |
| 28 | At this point , the ventilator , along with other forms of treatment , can and should be discontinued . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If part of the deep ecologist 's rationale for saving wilderness is so that future generations of humans can savour the orgiastic blood of the hunt ( as Ortega y Gasset describes the recreational slaughter of wild animals ) , animal liberationists can and should unashamedly applaud the efforts to preserve , but not the reasons for doing so . |