Example sentences of "they can [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they they can change in a year . |
| 2 | Those who could use the results of research also face the problem of deciding how much confidence they can place in a study . |
| 3 | they can organize on a customer basis |
| 4 | they can organize on a product basis ( eg where high technology products are involved ) |
| 5 | They can talk to a player , warn him and if he persists caution him so I do n't see a need for this new law . ’ |
| 6 | This they can do through a stockbroker , who will sell them via the stock market to people who want to buy such bonds . |
| 7 | The things that make a modern killer PC , such as swift video performance , are irrelevant for network servers — so mundane is their existence that they can do without a screen or a keyboard . |
| 8 | Hospitals and community units have to say exactly what they can do in a year , and districts and GPs can specify the quality criteria and kinds of service they want . |
| 9 | Anyone who likes dancing should go to the Haystack on a Friday , where they can dance under a mango tree , and , if lucky , listen to Goa 's celebrated singer Lucio de Miranda . |
| 10 | They can serve as a guide to what was agreed , and we now need to work on the detail . |
| 11 | Instead of leaving the spreadsheet package and typing a memo , they can go into a menu option in the spreadsheet to bring up a dialogue box for e-mail . |
| 12 | Well , they can go for a job , for example , and because they have no address they ca n't get the job , because they are not reliable . |
| 13 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |
| 14 | They need to know someone has charge of their lives , then they can build from a base of safety and security . |
| 15 | Then they can pause in a reading to worry out a meaning , and to discuss it with each other . |
| 16 | Ask the children if they think they can walk through a postcard . |
| 17 | They can walk into a room and see instantly if something is out of place or if a guest has a need . ’ |
| 18 | They can have from a handful of copies to several hundred , often scattered on many different chromosomes . |
| 19 | So that 's okay , the point is that they can substitute in a sentence intransitive verb or transitive verb object grammatic |
| 20 | They can act as a prick to our conscience to give time or money to help ( we do unto the least of His brethren what we do unto Him ) . |
| 21 | Lahars can be a direct result of an eruption , where for instance freshly ejected lava or pyroclasts melt ice or snow , or they can occur as a result of the destabilization of the unconsolidated volcanic debris on the slope of a volcano by an earthquake , or as a result of heavy rain . |
| 22 | Indeed , the thrust of what my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I seek to do is to tell people of their rights , how they can best achieve them and how they can claim in a way which is much different from before . |
| 23 | After remaining in the colony for seven years they can apply for a CI which is a more widely recognised travel document and enables them to become British Dependent Territory Citizens . |
| 24 | If someone like a foster carer , relative or a step-parent has looked after your child for 3 years or more they can apply to a court for custody of your child even if you disagree . |
| 25 | So if somebody gets H I , yes , because gets , takes out a policy at twenty five , gets diagnosed H I V at thirty , and they 're still living , they have n't actually got full blown aids , and they can live for a hell of a long time afterwards , they 're paying their W O P premium for a long , long time . |
| 26 | Erm and his purpose in emphasising this very traditional notion of dominion erm was of course , well was amongst other things , erm to make the point that individuals have no right of property which they can maintain against a government . |
| 27 | After defeats against Italy , Ireland and France , the Scots have made sweeping changes for their final encounter , prospects for which will revolve around the amount of ball they can supply for a back division sure to be enlivened by the presence of will-o-the-wisp stand-off , Derrick Lee . |
| 28 | Where the king is patron , he can seize the lands at will ; where his subjects are patrons , they can sue for a writ ordering reversion . |
| 29 | A paradoxical property of black holes is that they can radiate through a quantum field effect discovered by Hawking ( 1974 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ This is because , from the public 's point of view , if a company they are thinking of employing by Safe-Buy UK , they know they can proceed with a home improvement with extra reassurance and avoid things going badly or expensively wrong . |