Example sentences of "[modal v] and [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeating yesterday 's news that inflation had risen to 7.6 per cent , she said it was too high — it must and would be reduced . |
| 2 | 3 ) Desire must and can be stopped . |
| 3 | RURAL WALES Comment Column : How environmental education must and can be improved in Wales |
| 4 | There is a much larger number of pupils who exhibit disruptive behaviour which can , should and must be dealt with by an effective school response . |
| 5 | His justification for the necessary invasion of privacy is the familiar - and thoroughly respectable — plea that politics should and must be personalised . |
| 6 | Indirect Rule dramatized , sanctified , and institutionalized the belief that backward races should and could be ruled by force of character rather than by force of arms . |
| 7 | Moreover , the theory that the pace of colonial development should and could be controlled effectively from Whitehall was soon disproved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the appropriate storage facilities do not exist , that is a problem which should and can be addressed by the reactor operators themselves . |
| 10 | If it transpires from the answer to this requisition that such a memorandum should and will be endorsed , make a note there and then on your completion agenda to obtain a copy of it . |
| 11 | It should and will be welcomed by the vast majority of people , and it proves that the Government are continuing their endeavours to improve our schools and our education system . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Implementation is capable of different strategies which may and should be used to suit different circumstances . |
| 14 | And the potency of that design resides , Foucault ( 1979 p 205 ) claimed , in that : " … [ it ] is a diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form ; its functioning , abstracted from any obstacle , resistance or friction must be represented as a pure architectural or optical system : it is in fact a figure of political technology that " may and must be detached from any specific use . |
| 15 | The period immediately following upon the end of the war had been characterised by the belief that expenditure on education was not just necessary or worthy' but essential : through education , society could and would be transformed . |
| 16 | National service , imposed sacrifice and sharing , points and queues , idealism in the face of a pernicious enemy , the dynamics of coalition — all contributed to the sense that , in education as elsewhere , something could and must be done . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | Although it was impossible to describe such a society in a detailed way , some of its main features could and should be indicated . |
| 20 | aspirants had been , in a sense , responsible for securing , and which could and should be made much more widely available . |
| 21 | Enlightenment now revealed what could and should be done , planned town life offering ‘ Beauty , Health and Convenience ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 22 | We also assumed that from the age of 14 able pupils could and should be reading from a range of books written for adults , so the number of suitable authors would make any list quite impracticable . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There are some practices who could and should be giving thrombolytic therapy , there are others that can not and should not . |
| 26 | Many could and should be dealt with by local authorities and councillors and by such agencies as citizens advice bureaux , welfare rights centres , the social services and voluntary aid organizations . |
| 27 | Any complaint of want of particularity could and should be dealt with by appropriate directions in the third party proceedings . |
| 28 | Many services do not need to be provided by local authorities ; they could and should be put out to competitive tender to be provided by private contractors — from refuse collection to school meals provision and old people 's homes . |
| 29 | Before the massacre , he had allowed Hong Kong 's sympathies for the Peking protests to flow freely , judging that demonstrations could and should be allowed to proceed without police interference . |
| 30 | The report demonstrated that Britain 's cities could and should be improved from the point of view of economic . |