Example sentences of "could [coord] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Client will not require KPMG to undertake , nor will Client take any action which could or might result in KPMG being in breach thereof . |
| 2 | At this level the educational institution and the employer undertake something that neither could or would undertake on their own and which enhances the viability of each partner in their own normal sphere of activity and in their shared and mutual environment , community or market place . |
| 3 | What made it all so difficult was that , though practically no one had had a good word to say for Hereward , no one could or would pin down that dislike into a form which could prime a hatred violent enough to kill him . |
| 4 | It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Gorbachev may not have the authority to send Soviet troops to non-Russian parts of his own country at this point , so it 's very unlikely that he could or would try to send ground forces to the Persian Gulf . |
| 6 | There would be one more year of work before he finally achieved his degree , a hard year , a work-filled year , but nothing could or would postpone marriage plans . |
| 7 | It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do . |
| 8 | Day after day the German heavies pounded the corpses in this gully , until they were quartered , and re-quartered ; to one eye-witness it seemed as if it were filled with dismembered limbs that no one could or would bury . |
| 9 | But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world . |
| 10 | No one could or should pretend that nursing in the future will resemble nursing in the past . |
| 11 | The analysis reveals the information that could or should exist if the model is a fair reflection of the real world activity . |
| 12 | How this could or should affect the political decision about banning lead in petrol is not a question which I am competent to answer ; it involves too many non-scientific aspects . |
| 13 | Both at home on Saturday and both could or should win . |
| 14 | The notion that money alone could or should buy things — like privilege , or secondary-school places ( whether at Public School or not ) , or priority of treatment correspondingly diluted . |
| 15 | The case turns on whether he could or should have seen the case in the back of the lorry when he was lacing it up . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Also exempt would be a contract which could or should have been governed by one of the systems of law in the UK , where s 27(2) ( b ) does not apply , and the parties have chosen a foreign proper law for a genuine reason other than evasion of the UCTA ( eg because the other party was a foreigner who insisted on using the law of his own jurisdiction as the governing law of the contract ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Lastly there are those concerning the development of capitalism , particularly whether it is beneficial for the mass of people living in lesser developed countries or whether it could or will become so . |
| 20 | Intimate searches must be authorised by an officer of at least the rank of superintendent who , under section 55 , must have reasonable grounds for believing that the arrested person may have concealed on him anything which he could and might use to cause physical injury to himself or others or that he might have concealed a class A drug . |
| 21 | As would have been expected , the construction with the bare infinitive expresses direct perception of an event — to be more precise , the possibility of direct perception ( because of could and might have ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He would not miss so plain a possibility , but he could and would refrain from entertaining and proceeding on it until more is known . |
| 24 | It is a conclusion that need not worry supporters of inequality but which should cause concern to those who believed that social services could and would create a more equal society . |
| 25 | The missing reliquary , it seemed , was back where it belonged , just as a witness had been found who could and would confirm exactly how it had been made to disappear . |
| 26 | His dark eyes shone as he realized he was part of a British medical team that could and would meet any emergency that came along . |
| 27 | A man who could and would talk the hind legs back on to an injured donkey , provided it had decent proletarian credentials . |
| 28 | There was a confused position and Baldwin was entitled to continue until the oppositions could show that they could and would defeat him in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | Not that there was any more purpose in his life than there had been yesterday ; but the events of the previous twenty-four hours had shown him that Ra could and would produce the unexpected at the most surprising moment , and he could not suppress the hope that his chance meeting with Merymose might lead somewhere . |
| 30 | Only a small proportion of our patients could and would participate in the study . |