Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] they can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills . |
| 2 | As soon as it is over and both males are exhausted they have a brief opportunity during which they can launch an attack and win the harem from both of them , and this has been seen to happen . |
| 3 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 4 | ‘ These people ca n't just blow in with their grand illusions about what they can do in Northern Ireland , with this ‘ big brother ’ attitude that America can solve everyone 's problems . |
| 5 | Under the Law Society 's Scheme , representatives who are not accredited will have a period of six months during which they can develop their skills by being paid for work on less serious cases . |
| 6 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 7 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 8 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 9 | Thus in this linking process , the teacher requires flexibility to help pupils build links at a speed with which they can cope . |
| 10 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The organization of labor against its employers furnishes workers with a closely knit brotherhood end a formidable enemy upon whom they can project all their aggressions . |
| 12 | It is useful to point out that when using such materials choreographers must know their vocabulary very thoroughly and select movements through which they can emphasise the moment when disaster strikes . |
| 13 | If there 's no work for 'em they can go home for the day . |
| 14 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 15 | The advantage of such a system to trainees building a career lies in the complete flexibility with which they can gain qualifications . |
| 16 | The loose , fine tufts of roots of these plants will provide an ideal haven for the fish , and also spawning areas in which they can lay their eggs . |
| 17 | The Opposition parties have 20 days in each session in which they can select the topic for debate . |
| 18 | The recent development of the widespread cultivation of oilseed rape has , for the first time , provided some of our birds with an arable habitat in which they can nest — sedge and grasshopper warblers are other summer migrants that make use of it now . |
| 19 | It has to be remembered that children love an exercise in which they can get things right , or , of course , wrong . |
| 20 | So it is up to you to see that this does not happen , by creating circumstances in which they can continue to develop their relationship ‘ which his mother has every right to expect to be an on-going one , even in her old age . |
| 21 | Given the conditions in which most teachers are working , and given that they are human beings — that is , they have limitations on what they can do , and how well and how fast they can do it — they could not be feeling otherwise than rushed and confused , nor acting otherwise than fallibly . |
| 22 | We have taken steps to draw to the attention of all children who go into a home the fact that there is a telephone number , a contact point and a named officer separate from the home to whom they can complain if they feel the need . |
| 23 | On telemarketing , the code insists that companies must ring up prospective clients at reasonable hours , do not use high pressure sales tactics and allow prospective purchasers a ‘ cooling off ’ period during which they can change their minds . |
| 24 | Your Upside-Down Catfish may well settle down if you include some floating plants beneath which they can hide . |
| 25 | In the blossoming environment of audit and acceptable peer review , general practitioners need a benchmark against which they can assess the quality of their prescribing . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's important , too , for other non-whites — they need heroes with whom they can identify . ’ |
| 27 | However it is equally clear that large Japanese companies do hold a powerful competitive edge because of the ease with which they can alter the balance between their own output and that of their smaller suppliers . |
| 28 | For all this many professions and other service providers still cast their eyes enviously at accountants and the apparent ease with which they can offer additional services to clients , thanks to the automatic access granted by audit . |
| 29 | The early experience suggests that for the enthusiast of language , for example , the latter approach and even the former is possible : equally too the science enthusiast in primary schools protests at the ease with which they can familiarise themselves with the process . |
| 30 | Alternatively , an individual may be significantly restricted as to the condition , manner or duration under which they can perform a major life activity as compared to an average person . |