Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] they can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An independent charity , the association say they can only hope to continue this level of help to sporting organisations with the public 's support . |
| 2 | But if English speakers hear they can usually recognise this as ‘ my turn ’ and not ‘ might earn ’ . |
| 3 | Schools will need mechanisms for doing this ; and the level of professional understanding of the issues and the imperatives underlying them can only improve thereby . |
| 4 | If England lose they can still reach the finals as one of the best two second-placed teams in the three four-team European groups . |
| 5 | Some parents say they can barely afford children : living costs rocketed in the late 1980s , and Taipei is now reckoned to be one of the world 's most expensive cities in which to live . |
| 6 | Sainsbury hope to build a store on United Bus company land at Grange Road , but owners Caldaire say they can not afford to sell the land because it has to give the Government a fixed percentage of the sale . |
| 7 | ( But it has recently been pointed out that occasional use of these as cavalrymen means they can not have been a wholly depressed class . ) |
| 8 | Aid will only be available if they pay larger amounts than those demanded now and which present experience shows they can not afford . |
| 9 | But Palestinians say they can not return to the Arab-Israeli talks until the issue of the deportation of 415 Palestinians is resolved . |
| 10 | There has been an increase in suitable candidates , with women becoming more highly qualified through educational opportunities — businesses realise they can not afford to cut themselves off from 50 per cent of the market eg IBM , Unilever . |
| 11 | If the Greeks do not get their debt under control — and that , be it repeated , means getting a 7%-of-GDP surplus on the ordinary part of their budget , so as to have enough money left over to pay what is due on the debt — they will one day find they can not sell the bonds that keep the debt going . |
| 12 | BUT there is a dark shadow B on the horizon that these B bright , articulate 18-year-olds say they can not countenance : the rise of the extreme right and the spreading of its racist , fascist message across Europe . |
| 13 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 14 | The conflict over Palestine is not insoluble , if the Arabs bring to the table a peace offer that ordinary Israelis feel they can safely accept . |
| 15 | Most people find they can not tolerate sugar after that period . |
| 16 | They can do what they believe they can do but they sure as hell can not do what their manager believes they can not do . |
| 17 | But the ruling says they can only pay the bare minimum . |
| 18 | A Customs and Excise spokesman said they can not tell if there has been an offence as they are not sure if an import licence was ever necessary . |
| 19 | They budgeted for a pay award in line with inflation and while welcoming the ‘ well deserved ’ rise in teachers ' salaries say they can not fund it without cutting school budgets . |
| 20 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 21 | But the police say they can still prosecute because the real number plate shows up on the negative . |
| 22 | The police say they can only do their job if that information 's kept secret . |
| 23 | Border police say they can only stand by helplessly as Poles , returning home with their stolen Mercedes and BMWs , suddenly accelerate past them . |
| 24 | They see it as a further confirmation of their own moral righteousness in remaining committed to believing in a God who their reason tells them can not exist . |
| 25 | Of course , some dieters say they can not help bingeing on such foods . |
| 26 | The high cost of winning their franchises means they can not afford to screen any flops . |
| 27 | The RUC and Army Press Office say they can not confirm reports circulating within the security forces that single 7.62 shells were found after both attacks . |
| 28 | Factory bonuses have been replaced by compulsory pay deductions to buy government bonds , and many enterprises say they can not buy the bonds because they no longer have any cash . |
| 29 | Her family says they can only hope that Katharine 's tragedy will help bring a change in the law , so at least other victims will benefit from her experience . |