Example sentences of "can [coord] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have indicated on page 48 , there are a lot of other things an agency can or might do for you , and lots of departments it could have to do it . |
| 2 | No court can or should give him direction on such a matter . |
| 3 | No court can or should give him direction upon such a matter . |
| 4 | No set of contract conditions can or should protect the seller totally against his own incompetence . |
| 5 | For example , if users hold excessive expectations about whether accounts can indicate subsequent financial collapse , that will create an expectations gap regardless of what auditors can or should do about it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 8 | Whether pope and curia can or should win such battles is not for us to say . |
| 9 | ‘ There is nothing which I can or should say in advance of the inquiry . ’ |
| 10 | It 's all I can or will tell you . |
| 11 | Too many take on too much , for the time they can or will devote . |
| 12 | But there is a third reason for the silence on international issues , namely the fact that there is very little Britain can or will do . |
| 13 | The true cost of these is hidden , i.e. cover at workplace , cost of speakers etc. is minimal by comparison ’ — in general , there will be a limit to the amount of hidden costs any library department can or will want to absorb on training , in the face of competing priorities . |
| 14 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 15 | " Bring him down to see us , " they say , " and we 'll tell him how he can and ought to claim for you . " |
| 16 | Now that 's the one the public can and ought to ask to see . |
| 17 | How long it lasts — and it can and ought to last for years — depends on your delivering what your agency promised . |
| 18 | I can and shall take the matter up with the Attorney General in relation to the sentence which has been past . |
| 19 | I do not , I must emphasize , quarrel in the slightest with the salutary principle of Ramsay v. IRC that the court can and will ignore sham transactions or the creation of magical and non-existent losses or expenditure by a series of carefully contrived steps in a process of fiscal legerdemain . |
| 20 | A good Home will help its residents to keep as fit as they can and will offer plenty of different things to do during the week . |
| 21 | Tiananmen demonstrated what most people in Hong Kong well knew , but preferred not to admit : that the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party can and will do absolutely anything , however brutal and illegal , to further their grip on power . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ There are many things we can and will do . |
| 24 | The regulatory powers can and will do the job . |
| 25 | The trouble is British Coal may already be contractually too far advanced ; what we can and will do is stop them extending the scheme , not by planning , but by policy making . |
| 26 | the EC has prepared a draft treaty to exclude the UK in the event of a British ‘ no ’ , that is Maastricht can and will go ahead without the UK ; |
| 27 | While it is clear that the court can and will exercise discretion , it is obviously wise to check on the availability of witnesses before setting down . |
| 28 | They can and will eat anything — flesh and bone , wood , rocks , bits of metal . |
| 29 | For though I doubt if he 's ready to own to it yet , I know of another who can and will testify that the two of them were together until the bell sounded for Compline , which would be the better part of an hour later than you have in mind , and a quarter of an hour 's walk from the place , into the bargain . |
| 30 | For the alternative view can only be that the assumptions on which that policy is founded are unsound , if only in supposing that employers can and will deliver wage restraint . |