Example sentences of "[modal v] and [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is clear evidence that the judiciary could and did temper the law with common sense , and did not habitually turn a blind eye to social and economic realities . |
| 2 | While this organ could and did assume the executive functions of a provisional government , its creation did not resolve two crucial problems : what roles were the existing political parties and the mass of the population to play in the New State . |
| 3 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 4 | Second , the government can and does manipulate the environment , physical , economic and social , in which people live . |
| 5 | Enright has pointed out with regard to media that ‘ too much attention has been given to the possibilities of the new media supplanting the book , and far too little to the ways in which each can and does supplement the other ’ . |
| 6 | Clearly there are times when information at one level can and does guide the interpretation of a lower-level unit . |
| 7 | But some countries can and do make the stuff — Brazil for one uses alcohol/diesel and alcohol/petrol mixes , and the USA has had ‘ gasohol ’ ( petrol with 10% ethanol ) for some years . |
| 8 | New social consciousness dictates a need among advice workers for self-awareness in their attitudes to clients , in particular towards black and ethnic minority clients , and how personal attitudes can and do affect the direction and achievements of advice giving . |
| 9 | Athesists , in religious terms , can and do follow the programme . |
| 10 | They can and have safeguarded the provision of humanitarian aid . |