Example sentences of "[noun] could [conj] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Any complaint of want of particularity could and should be dealt with by appropriate directions in the third party proceedings . |
| 4 | During some of the earlier programmes in this series , the question of how far parents could or should be involved in their children 's education was raised . |
| 5 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 6 | Those from medium-sized and larger firms supported the introduction of such a test on the grounds that institutions could and should ‘ look after themselves ’ . |
| 7 | Furthermore , all three activities could and should work to the advantage of environmental conservation by encouraging people into new landscapes and thus heightening their environmental awareness so that they themselves become part of the environmental protection movement . |
| 8 | Er I very much hope so er that my Noble Friend will recognise what does seem to be the prevailing view in this House on , on your all quarters and all parties and er and will indicate that on most of the points of controversy , not just the but most of them , the Government is prepared to think again , he may even feel that it might be prudent to defer further consideration of the committee stage of this Bill er after today 's sitting er er for a little time and when discussions could and should take place between those who hold different views and er his own very considerable power conciliation er could be used . |
| 9 | The report demonstrated that Britain 's cities could and should be improved from the point of view of economic . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The research incorporates a case study of the ways in which the overcapacity problem in the petrochemicals and plastics sector has been handled in Britain and West Germany , together with a consideration of what the role of the European Community could and should be in the handling of overcapacity problems . |
| 12 | That kind of detailed examination could and should go on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But Macmillan ( who became prime minister in January 1957 ) firmly decided that the special relationship could and should be rebuilt . |
| 15 | Parliament may have intended that the English court could and should bring before it , and make orders against , a person who has no connection whatever with England save that he entered into a transaction , maybe abroad and in respect of foreign property and in the utmost good faith , with a person who is subject to the insolvency jurisdiction of the English court . |
| 16 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 17 | But , overall , our crime rate could and should be even lower . |
| 18 | Although it was impossible to describe such a society in a detailed way , some of its main features could and should be indicated . |
| 19 | the debate which loomed large in Victorian society as to whether strict respect for the Sabbath could or should be enforced by law . |
| 20 | The courts have made clear on several occasions that section 76 lays down a ‘ general principle ’ of parental choice which is only one of a number of factors to which an LEA could or should have regard when exercising their functions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The government could and should have required FGD on all its old power stations but it did n't . |
| 24 | The CBI report ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ rejected the notion that the Government could or should ’ be in the business of picking winners , or of engaging in direct intervention in the strategic direction and management of companies ’ . |
| 25 | The CBI report ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ rejected the notion that Government could or should ’ be in the business of picking winers , or of engaging in direct intervention in the strategic direction and management of companies ’ . |
| 26 | The other big mistake could and should have been avoided . |
| 27 | But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world . |
| 28 | Certainly neither Attlee nor Bevin took account of those in the Labour party who suggested that Britain could or should pursue a " socialist " foreign policy , nor did they accept the claims of the Labour left that the United States was more aggressive than the USSR . |
| 29 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 30 | That is , they believed that the civil state could and should be used to enforce religious conformity . |