Example sentences of "[subord] they can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the best formations for infantry are massed ranks , the best formations for missile troops are long thin lines where they can bring the maximum number of weapons to bear . |
| 2 | ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor . |
| 3 | ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor . |
| 4 | Of the total , $1 billion will be used to upgrade Time Warner 's cable-TV systems — with some 7m subscribers , America 's second-biggest — so they can carry the full range of whizzy ‘ multimedia ’ services . |
| 5 | The front teeth or incisors are shaped so they can cut the smallest blade of grass and are sometimes known as the chopping teeth . |
| 6 | Just as the clinical professions can provide parents with the language and the concepts with which to take a negative view of the child , so they can provide the unwitting stimulus for the parent to enter a new , positive world in which things ‘ fall into place ’ . |
| 7 | When asked if people should still buy his book , he replied that they should , but only in hardback ‘ so they can hit the little ******* over the head ’ ! |
| 8 | They may , and often do , leave it to the debtors to see if they can procure the additional security . |
| 9 | ‘ Instead we see a defending , retreating side rewarded with possession if they can stop the attacking side with the ball and prevent that ball from emerging . |
| 10 | Such proposals include : ( i ) longer term agreements so that the full benefits of the scheme can be realised ; ( ii ) greater incentives for water level management ; ( iii ) developing a tiered system of payments in all ESAs to reflect different levels of environmental quality ; ( iv ) ensuring that farmers only enter the scheme if they can achieve the specified standards of water management etc . |
| 11 | Their names will be in Japanese history books if they can persuade the Soviet leader to hand back the islands . |
| 12 | Malcolm Crosby 's men will be trying to make their survival mathematically certain against Swindon tonight , and if they can produce the gritty determination they showed at the Goldstone Ground and eradicate silly defensive errors any lingering doubts should soon be over . |
| 13 | You can either add new points or outlets to existing circuits , if they can take the increased load ( which is good but expensive ) or install lengths of track to the odd ceiling outlets that are there already . |
| 14 | There is no real difficulty in accepting the functional equivalence of variants such as lt ] and [ ? ] if they can occupy the same position in a set of words ( such as the syllable final position in bat , pit , hot ) without replacement of one by the other altering the semantic form of any item . |
| 15 | As to the Finale , hardly Mahler 's most inspired movement , listeners ought to be rewarded with an endurance medal if they can survive the 24 minutes of unrelieved turgidity . |
| 16 | Will he confirm that , provided they can deliver the national curriculum , they will continue to have an important role in modern education ? |
| 17 | High structural unemployment makes alternative thinking about labour intensivity , for example more acceptable ; with less money available , small scale and community based schemes , using local resources and motivated by indigenous imagination stand far more chance of getting off the ground , provided they can obtain the right kind of encouragement and support . |
| 18 | Despite the squeeze on hospital budgets , health professionals visiting from the United Kingdom are likely to be struck more strongly in the leading New York voluntary hospitals by the relatively lavish level at which they are equipped than by their shortage of money , perhaps because they can shape the patient population that they actually serve to match the funding available . |
| 19 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |
| 20 | First , it may be an aspect of the decision whether disabled persons are ‘ qualified ’ or not , in the sense of whether they can perform the essential functions of the job . |
| 21 | Discovering just how much creatures with nervous systems of this degree of complexity can remember , and whether they can meet the rigorous criteria laid down by association psychologists as to behaviour to be counted as learning , classical or operant conditioning , becomes a matter of the ingenuity of the experimenter in designing appropriate , biologically relevant tasks . |
| 22 | I should like hon. Members to give TECs not only their support but the time to develop their approach locally to see whether they can meet the high expectations that understandably now exist . |
| 23 | The poor die young — before they can contract the chronic diseases that dearly cost national health schemes . |
| 24 | Promotional groups will only be effective when they can deliver the full support of their clientele . |
| 25 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 26 | These considerations should be borne in mind , as they can determine the ultimate destiny of our music . |