Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [conj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are committed to making any changes that may be required to ensure that we can and do regulate effectively . |
| 2 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 3 | What is clear is that business managers are pulled in many directions and that they must and do make choices among alternative objectives ’ . |
| 4 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
| 5 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 6 | On 22nd July , Major Wood came to the Wallowa to investigate the killing , and reported Joseph as saying that ‘ the valley was more sacred to him than ever before , and he would and did claim it now as recompense for the life taken . ’ |
| 7 | The culture not only allows for change , usually incremental but occasionally radical , but itself can and does change . |
| 8 | But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman . |
| 9 | The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance . |
| 10 | But it can and does happen . |
| 11 | While it could and did allow that the discoveries of natural science and of philological and literary criticism of the text could cast light upon the meaning of the Bible , it held that the proper responsibility of the theologian is to interpret the Bible out of itself . |