Example sentences of "it [vb mod] and [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Parsons 's efforts to build a general theory of action , though criticised in some quarters , did at least provide an ambition for social research as something it could and ought to contribute to . |
| 3 | It sometimes seemed that the Government was less interested in broadcasting from the point of view of fulfilling the three aims mentioned in the plan than in what it could and should do to publicize its own policies and activities . |
| 4 | It could and should have led him to great opportunities . |
| 5 | The most annoying fact was that it could and should have been a masterpiece . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | United 's search for their first away win of the season ended at Leicester : 3-2 it could and should have been more . |
| 8 | In addressing the inner culture of higher education , we must not forget that inescapably it will and should have some relationship with the culture of its host society . |
| 9 | How long it lasts — and it can and ought to last for years — depends on your delivering what your agency promised . |
| 10 | But what it can and will do is bring a literary perspective to sport , by encouraging gifted writers to go one-on-one against our most intriguing winners and losers . |
| 11 | 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) ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |