Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] and " in BNC.

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1 John Hitch had seemed convinced that it would and Plummer trusted the instincts of his colleague almost as he trusted his own .
2 It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority .
3 Whether or not all meaning can be made explicit in the text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can and that making it so is a valid scientific enterprise .
4 The announcement of a firm intention to make an offer for a target company must only be made when the offeror has every reason to believe that it can and will continue to be able to implement the offer ( Rule 2.5(a) ) .
5 Such an announcement should not be made until the offeror has every reason to believe that it can and will continue to be able to implement it .
6 The most annoying fact was that it could and should have been a masterpiece .
7 With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs .
8 For example , he thought that BT should be allowed to offer entertainment services but seemed to be unaware that it could and had applied for cable franchises .
9 It was , indeed , the dominant concept of the age , though there was a rather fundamental division between those who thought that progress would be more or less continuous and linear , and those ( like Marx ) who knew that it must and would be discontinuous and contradictory .
10 Ask it to do more than it can and it may not do what it should .
11 The rise in long-term unemployment and the increase in child poverty since the mid 1970s is likely to mean that the health of the lower social classes is improving more slowly than it should and would have done , rather than that it is getting worse .
12 Er anyhow th th the , the eventual thing was maybe her blood pressure was going up higher than it should and maybe whether the cumulative stress of having a husband off in my state , maybe
13 How long it lasts — and it can and ought to last for years — depends on your delivering what your agency promised .
14 Clearly er my recollection at the time there was great concern and it can and it 's it 's it 's arguably reflected in the public response , about creating a new road passing between Harrogate and Knaresborough .
15 But it can and does happen .
16 My opinion is that sex offending can not be cured , but it can and should be better supervised and controlled .
17 The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance .
18 While it could and did allow that the discoveries of natural science and of philological and literary criticism of the text could cast light upon the meaning of the Bible , it held that the proper responsibility of the theologian is to interpret the Bible out of itself .
19 On behalf of the applicant , Mr. Fitzgerald submitted that a death due to ‘ natural causes ’ in the sense that it was caused by some naturally occurring disease , nevertheless becomes ‘ an unnatural death ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) when it could and should have been prevented by the performance by some other person or authority of a duty owed by them to the deceased .
20 By thinking of the main directions you will allow the Primary Control to work as it should and this , in turn , will naturally organize all the other reflexes and muscles .
21 I do keep an eye on my colour changer to make sure that it is picking up each colour as it should and I am also very careful to check that I have no ‘ lazy ’ or less than perfect needles as picking up dropped stitches is not a pleasant job .
22 Similarly , the Andante ‘ on an old German Minnelied ’ does not move along as freely and naturally as it should and so loses something of its song quality .
23 But what is the fate of a higher culture like ours in which the latency period does not develop as it should and in which , consequently , the Oedipal dilemma is not satisfactorily resolved ?
24 It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized .
25 Conference , you have the composite in front of her , in front of you , you 've heard the facts from myself , please support the composite as it can and it will affect you all .
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