Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [conj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But how to explain the collective , and indeed international dimensions of capitalism and racism , which can and do operate independently of any local patterns of linkage ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 7 | However , this only happens if your debtor wants to defend the action or makes you an offer which you can and do refuse . |
| 8 | The culture not only allows for change , usually incremental but occasionally radical , but itself can and does change . |
| 9 | We are committed to making any changes that may be required to ensure that we can and do regulate effectively . |
| 10 | We can and do make use of all kinds of resources in our own ways : we learn how to draw stickmen and produce our own graphics , we write and record our own audio dialogues , some institutions produce the bulk of their own print materials . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | What is clear is that business managers are pulled in many directions and that they must and do make choices among alternative objectives ’ . |
| 13 | But sixteen was a man and when he had begun to drown as a man there was nothing they could or did do to step in and help . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Committee chairmen had greater microphone power : they could and did interrupt speakers , overriding their speeches with voluble and sometimes lengthy rehearsals of facts and figures ; they intervened to answer rhetorical questions or to explain that they were irrelevant . |
| 16 | These were sturdy little cars and although used mainly on the Norbury — Purley and Thornton Heath lines in the early days , they could and did work anywhere on the system . |
| 17 | However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute . |
| 18 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Naturally the judges ' tariff is not writ in stone ; it may and does change over time , so that sentences passed in 1900 are of little or no value in ascertaining the tariff in 1992 . |
| 23 | It could and did reach conclusions upon policy , but the final decision rested with the Queen , who seldom attended meetings and might easily ignore their conclusions . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It could and did reject , revise and remake legislation on the floor of the House ( such as the 1858 India Act or the 1867 Reform Act ) . |
| 26 | He could and did talk at times as if he were simply continuing Schleiermacher 's programme , and described Schleiermacher as his predecessor in the matter of method . |
| 27 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 28 | What he could and did do , throughout the Algiers year , was to strengthen the CFLN 's position inside and outside France so that , whenever the operation began , the CFLN would be in the best position to preempt Allied attempts to marginalize it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman . |