Example sentences of "they can [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Few can be relied upon for any technical back-up or support services although they can draw upon the services of their manufacturing suppliers for this purpose . |
| 4 | The farmers in the extended LFA are mainly dairy farmers or dairy with sheep , and it may well be that compensatory payments because of LFA designation will be less important than the substantial payments they can attract under the EEC 's existing Sheepmeat Regime . |
| 5 | Released , they rise very slowly ( they can remain in the troposphere , or lower atmosphere , for 100 years ) and intact to the stratosphere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some people find they can distinguish between the vibration pattern made by people talking , running water , a knock at the door , footsteps , music . |
| 10 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 11 | " that the highest praise they can bestow on the Masters is merited by them . |
| 12 | ‘ They can pay for the lorries out of that . ’ |
| 13 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ They can do without the luxury of eating until we catch that monster , ’ he told Matron . |
| 18 | After their successful first record , they can go into the studio without proper preparation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For many things they can go to the Hochschule für Musik . |
| 21 | I mean they can go on the ferry . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | They can go on the hippy trail up the coast — that 's something I have missed out on . |
| 24 | so they can go round the circuit |
| 25 | I find it so depressing the way sane , reasonably intelligent women do n't feel they can go round the corner to get a pint of milk without their mascara . |
| 26 | And I do n't think if you 've got it out of the Guilds and say now we 've got to have so much for the rent this week I do n't think I would have a Guild very long , because they can go round the corner . |
| 27 | They can go round the corner to the , er I go to a church club er and I pay twenty-five pence and that includes my raffle and a cup of tea you see . |
| 28 | They can go in the garage ca n't they ? |
| 29 | I think it would affect their marriages , their inter-personal relationships , their co-habitations , the way that they deal with people at work , their sense of who they are in the world and how far they can go in the world , and I think that 's what makes the problem so serious because it has very , very long-reaching effects . |
| 30 | We have too many clients to list , but we can introduce you to some of them , confident that they can testify to the quality and effectiveness of what we do . |