Example sentences of "[modal v] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is n't the first man to leave his wife and , though I understand your instinct to protect your sister , surely she could and should fight her own battles ? ’ |
| 2 | The trouble with planners is that they often persuaded themselves that they could and should impose their plans on other people . |
| 3 | But all this did not yet add up to a widespread expectation in London that Anglo-American relations would or should retain their wartime intimacy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They can and must change their own lives and the lives of those around them . |