Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [modal v] [conj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drank when young and while still young drank a lot , challenging himself to knock off all comers , but most of all to align himself with the legendary drinking miners who could and did sweat it off down the pit while Richard had to force it off in games . |
| 2 | They , among other things , have put Westminster into that category of parliaments which can and do exercise a significant degree of influence over the formation of policy . |
| 3 | The importance of this way of conceptualising drug use lies in its ability to treat drug use non-judgementally as a continuing process which can and does vary between individuals and through time for the same individual . |
| 4 | In Levison v Farin [ 1978 ] 2 All ER 1149 it was held that it would not normally be enough " to make known the means of knowledge which may or do enable the other party to work out certain facts and conclusions " . |
| 5 | In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to . |
| 6 | The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on . |
| 7 | For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert . |
| 8 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |