Example sentences of "[vb mod] [conj] [verb] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | What is clear is that business managers are pulled in many directions and that they must and do make choices among alternative objectives ’ . |
2 | Men could and did eat sandwiches while their female companions ate nothing . |
3 | The House could and did sack governments ( such as Russell 's first Cabinet in 1852 , Aberdeen 's ministry in 1885 , Lord Palmerston in 1858 , Russell again in 1866 and Gladstone in 1885 ) without having to face a general election . |
4 | I remarked that , of the politicians I had known , only Mr Healey and Mr Powell could and did talk philosophy . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Elfed could and did pull strings on the local Co-operative committee . |
7 | I suggest that in early modern England the sodomite , though not an identity in the modern sense , could and did denote subject positions or types ; ‘ he ’ precisely characterized deviant subject positions as well as denoting the behaviour of individuals . |
8 | Individual peasants and lords could and did remove strips or groups of strips from the rotation sequence of their neighbours and fence them around . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Accordingly the point must be made that the young Pound , as a doctoral student grounded quite rigorously in the Romance languages , certainly could and did read Virgil in the Latin . |
11 | ‘ The mind , taking no notice of itself , is deluded to think it can and doth conceive bodies … without the mind . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | This knowledge can and does add fuel to the alarmist ‘ law and order ’ fire : ‘ it 's even worse than we imagined ! ’ |
14 | Of course , in those situations where the buyer can and does accept part and reject part of the goods ( i.e. where section 30 applies or where the contract is severable , see paragraphs 11–07 and 11–08 above ) , he is entitled to recover any part of the price that he has paid in respect of the rejected part of the goods . |
15 | There are many issues on which the drinks industry can and does join forces with governments and health promoters to combat alcohol abuse . |
16 | Redheads can and do wear pinks , as well as terracotta and greens . |
17 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
18 | There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistic experiments that people can and do make decisions about a word 's identity before they have access to its complete phonological specification . |
19 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
22 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
23 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |
24 | Certainly both gay camp and gay machismo can and do problematize femininity and masculinity as traditionally understood . |
25 | Health Board administrators with a predominantly managerial ideology can and do take decisions which profoundly affect patients and staff , including medical staff . |
26 | This is n't a glib advertising slogan but a statement of simple truth , because smoke detector alarms can and do save lives . |