Example sentences of "[noun] can [conj] [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | With it , Nozick can and does find independent support for his theory ; he wants to say that the theory gets things right here . |
2 | American companies can and do bring private antitrust suits — a remedy denied to British companies . |
3 | But the FedPol can and do visit any SenFed planet whenever they want , in pursuit of an inquiry or a suspect . |
4 | Things can and do go wrong and you do n't want to pressurise yourself because you have to get the equipment back to the hire shop . |
5 | Amidst these grand claims for the ‘ effects ’ of writing , Olson suppresses the qualification cited above that ‘ whether meaning can be made explicit in text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can ’ and proceeds as though it were agreed and verifiable that writing can and does have such effects because of its intrinsic qualities . |
6 | While poor segmenting and labelling contributed greatly to the problem , there is psycholinguistic evidence that people can and do use later information to recover from errors and ambiguities in the input . |
7 | Many mothers can and do achieve this and are highly motivated to avoid cleaning up soiled nappies . |
8 | Newspapers can and do express partisan preferences . |
9 | The multi-interpretability of film ( polysemy ) and the realisation that spectators can and do adopt diverse identificatory positions in watching film has led to a new and more complex conception of film-viewing . |
10 | Gramsci is therefore arguing that class cleavages can and do take spatial forms , such as urban capitalist middle-class versus rural semi-feudal peasantry . |