Example sentences of "can [conj] [adv] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that these aims can and often do conflict in an industrial R&T organization . |
| 2 | Any discussion of crime must be cognizant of the fact that serious adverse consequences can and often do follow from being indifferent to the outcome of one 's actions ( or inactions ) . |
| 3 | Studies of responses to both separation from the attachment object and subsequent reunion with it , yield unequivocal support to the proposition that attachments can and often do survive periods of absence , undiminished in strength , despite the fact that attachment behaviour may diminish in strength during the period of absence . |
| 4 | At the same the management of eye movements leaves room for the possibility of accesses which can and often do develop into what Goffmann describes as focussed encounters ; episodes which are themselves introduced and terminated by rituals of greeting and farewell . |
| 5 | Yet in spite of the increasing number of school libraries ( and the growing number of professional librarians running them , albeit still an unsatisfactorily small number ) the public library can and still does offer a useful user education service to schoolchildren . |
| 6 | When that happens the Court of Appeal can and usually does put it right , whether the sentence was too high or , as in a recent case from Wales , too low . ’ |
| 7 | The participants in folk dance can and certainly do show elation . |