Example sentences of "[vb mod] [conj] [verb] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Richards observed : ‘ Uncontrolled building of the suburban kind may and does add to the general chaos of our time , but the suburb at its best has virtues peculiarly designed to bring comfort and fulfilment to many . ’ |
| 4 | This could and did result in nasty crash landings which could set the bombs off . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Individuals could and did suffer at the hands of individual kings . |
| 7 | Attlee could and did capitalize on another legacy bequeathed by the war years . |
| 8 | The research concluded that , in some respects , patients could and did behave like consumers in a marketplace , shopping around for good quality care . |
| 9 | Unlike Faulkner 's discussion group , the Parliamentarians could and did agitate for action to be taken on certain issues for which there was all party support . |
| 10 | But each could and did act for the other when necessary ; and English diplomats abroad frequently corresponded with both . |
| 11 | Clearly , the military could and did act as a very powerful interest group and had the support of the heavy industrial interest , which was dependent on the manufacture of armaments . |
| 12 | Although Terry was a steady and capable defender , he could and did play at inside-forward . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | The Action Committee office bearers were confident that the characters of those adults accused , and those of their children , as well as the sort of events that could and did occur in their community , were better known to them than to Orkney 's Social Work Department . |
| 15 | The German Unix house , iXos Software GmbH based in Grassbrunn near Munich , has signed up Unipress Software Inc , Edison , New Jersey , to distribute its database query tool , iXview/SQL and a new application development tool called iXBuild. iXBuild , operating under OSF 's Motif graphical user interface , allows programmers to create applications for technical and scientific markets — the toolkit can if required operate in a WYSWIG mode . |
| 16 | He assures them Virgin Atlantic can and does compete on cost as well as service , but he claims British Airways is n't playing fair and has complained to the European commission that B A is offering anti-competitive deals Virgin claims it 's losing business as a result . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We saw in the previous section that there are limits to rationality , and that thought can and does break through those limits on different levels . |
| 19 | This God can and does break into human life , and sometimes he does it through the violent , the unexpected , the alien . |
| 20 | All of this can and does happen in formal schools . |
| 21 | It is a tribute to the tribunals that the technicality at the heart of the appellate process in these tribunals can and does coexist with the relative informality in atmosphere and with procedural flexibility . |
| 22 | There is evidence to suggest that unprotected vaginal intercourse with an infected woman is particularly risky for the man during the woman 's period , though transmission can and does occur at other times . |
| 23 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
| 24 | Many facilities that are seen as key characteristics of an exchange , such as standardised contracts , transparency , liquidity and screen-trading , all can and do exist in off-exchange markets , such as forex and Brent . |
| 25 | The inferences that may be placed in data materials can and do change as theoretical frameworks change and shift . |
| 26 | The Regional Council has not attempted to argue that increased levels of infill can and do compensate for a shortage in the HP4 supply . |
| 27 | Balancing an existing roster is of primary importance to a major company , whereas some smaller independent companies can and do concentrate on a particular sound or style of music . |
| 28 | There is a " down side " to this aspect of a career in advertising for the long hours can and do interfere with attempts to strike a balance between work and play , career and home . |
| 29 | It is known that both cannibalistic and non-cannibalistic individuals can and do develop from the same batch of eggs . |
| 30 | Very serious consequences can and do follow from people or organisations being indifferent to the results of their actions . |