Example sentences of "they can [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they they can change in a year . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , all three activities can adversely affect the environment and if uncontrolled they can result in the destruction of landforms , fauna and flora that first motivated the activity . |
| 3 | The only modification needed to make them operate efficiently in air is some means of keeping their surface clean and smooth , so the amphibians developed the capacity to blink and a membrane that they can draw across the front of the eyeball . |
| 4 | Released , they rise very slowly ( they can remain in the troposphere , or lower atmosphere , for 100 years ) and intact to the stratosphere . |
| 5 | Again , the benefits of being landlord , so far as they can enure to an owner who has parted with the property , would only continue for a former landlord who had continuing liability . |
| 6 | Those who could use the results of research also face the problem of deciding how much confidence they can place in a study . |
| 7 | Sun and Hewlett-Packard remain confident they can beat off the challenge from NT , especially where firms are scrapping their Unix-based mainframes and minicomputers for networks of desktop machines . |
| 8 | A challenge that School Boards are yet to come to terms with fully is how they can contribute to the achievement of the school 's goals . |
| 9 | According to a MORI poll , the majority of people have not grasped the realities of air pollution nor how they can contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases . |
| 10 | Some people find they can distinguish between the vibration pattern made by people talking , running water , a knock at the door , footsteps , music . |
| 11 | they can organize on a customer basis |
| 12 | they can organize on a product basis ( eg where high technology products are involved ) |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Thresher also offers in-house and open learning course-based activities to all its managers in order that they can study for the Wine and Spirit Education Trust Higher Certificate , which is a product knowledge-based certificate . |
| 15 | ‘ They do n't realise the speed of the men players or what they can do with the ball . |
| 16 | This they can do through a stockbroker , who will sell them via the stock market to people who want to buy such bonds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | City councillor John Fetherston , said : ‘ Blacon is already an area of high family stress and residents feel they can do without the addition of a home for children from problem backgrounds . |
| 19 | ‘ They can do without the luxury of eating until we catch that monster , ’ he told Matron . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They can serve as a guide to what was agreed , and we now need to work on the detail . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After their successful first record , they can go into the studio without proper preparation . |
| 25 | They can go into the furtherance of a chosen goal , and here something of the difference between the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ and the male hunter can be glimpsed , for whereas a man may wrestle openly with every difficulty on the way , women can use more precision and grace , choosing moments with care , sensing the atmosphere , and employing only as much force as is necessary . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I mean they can go on the ferry . |
| 28 | do n't swear , ooh you 're doing well , if I get some of these bits , if I get the whole ones and the big pieces they can go on the top and that |
| 29 | They can go on the hippy trail up the coast — that 's something I have missed out on . |
| 30 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |