Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] they can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 But if English speakers hear they can usually recognise this as ‘ my turn ’ and not ‘ might earn ’ .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 ( But it has recently been pointed out that occasional use of these as cavalrymen means they can not have been a wholly depressed class . )
5 But Palestinians say they can not return to the Arab-Israeli talks until the issue of the deportation of 415 Palestinians is resolved .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 } ) .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 . ’
12 But the police say they can still prosecute because the real number plate shows up on the negative .
13 The police say they can only do their job if that information 's kept secret .
14 Border police say they can only stand by helplessly as Poles , returning home with their stolen Mercedes and BMWs , suddenly accelerate past them .
15 Of course , some dieters say they can not help bingeing on such foods .
16 The high cost of winning their franchises means they can not afford to screen any flops .
17 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 .
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