Example sentences of "they can [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 From here they can be drawn up in two ranks , both of which can fire , and they can draw line of sight to almost any place on the field .
2 Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam .
3 Good windsurfing boots or shoes have soft rubber soles so your grip will be far better , and the materials used in them mean that they can withstand use in water much better than running shoes .
4 There are even now other issues on the pensions debate we have employers like Telecom using pension funds to fund redundancies we now even have the government looking to see if they can get hold of pension fund money in British Rail and in the Coal Board to see if they can also fund job losses .
5 Patrol leader Captain David Hall said : ‘ We 're letting them know they can get food without instability . ’
6 Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper .
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