Example sentences of "they can [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to give the children positive memories which they can draw on during the difficult times at home to build a better country . |
| 2 | We 're giving two and a half thousand doctors computers on their desk , where they can tap in to the computer anything which happens to the patient which they suspect might be related to the medicine and also put in to the computer , of course , the medicines which the patient is taking , so that these records , covering about five million patients altogether , will be all centrally brought together in order to give very early warning of any harm which medicines are doing , so that 's a very important development . |
| 3 | If they can fit in with the room 's general style , so much the better . |
| 4 | This ‘ mobility gap ’ separates the occupied ‘ delocalised ’ states that contain the mobile electrons ( and are so-called precisely because they can move around in the semiconductor ) from vacant delocalised states in higher Landau levels . |
| 5 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 6 | Before the seventy-two hours are up , they can go back to the court and apply for an extension of the warrant of further detention by up to another thirty-six hours . |
| 7 | Ideas have to begin somewhere , a point which tends to be overlooked by those who seize on leaked internal government memoranda floating a proposal at a formative stage of the idea and criticize both the content of the proposal and the secrecy which surrounds it , without reflecting that ideas have to be shaped by discussion and given preliminary approval as worthy of examination before they can go out under the imprimatur of the organizing body . |
| 8 | Over 100 Dale Farm milkmen have also been issued with incident report cards which they can pass on to the police through their depot manager . |
| 9 | Getting a good set of prints is not cheap , although there are less expensive rates for students and most actors have a stock of postcard size prints that they can send off at the merest rumour of work . |
| 10 | And they can travel down to the job centre — in vain . |
| 11 | They can make as much mess as they like and when the weather 's nice they can spill out into the garden . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The fact of the matter is , several of the teachers on the course you missed because of skiving off on holiday , a number of them have asked me if they can stay on for the autumn term . |
| 13 | So where , if I 'm putting twelve thousand in for sort of a , a holding fund for , for individuals I might put three thousand into a local society so they can pop down to the Nottingham Building Society for any bits and pieces , and th the , the bulk of it can go into a postal account to , with a better rate . |
| 14 | The stupid thing is that U2 are not just a good new rock-pop group , ‘ boy is n't it great that they can emerge out of the unhelpful Irish environment ’ . |
| 15 | Or do you use your strength , resources and imagination to throw them a rope , so that they can climb out of the pit ? |
| 16 | Then they can get on with the jobs they are paid for . ’ |
| 17 | The accident happened two years ago — the victims families say it 's time the insurers paid up , so they can get on with the rest of their lives . |
| 18 | As soon as they pass their driving test , they can get out of the supervised test car and hop into a two or three litre car and off they go down the road to possibly death and destruction . |
| 19 | Maybe now they 've proved they 've got ‘ the skills to pay the bills ’ they can get down to the serious shit they 're obviously capable of . |
| 20 | They see it working and often they are given a print out of the results at the end of a spectrum or something like that that they can take back to the school with them and analyze . |
| 21 | The vertical ramp will be made to the same dimensions as Southsea 's , as long as they can come up with the money to make it . |
| 22 | Well , they can come in to the church , as many of them do , erm and I just say to them well , you know , do you respect this place and fine , it 's a place where we do n't chuck anybody out who comes into church for all sorts of reasons during the day when the church is open , you know , people come in , and there are many people like the ones we 've been talking about , who are in desperate need , and we just ask them to respect certain fairly mild rules they can always go out in the churchyard and smoke , but in the building itself we say no smoking and no drinking . |
| 23 | But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all . |
| 24 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 25 | When it moves any models in its path are run over , sustaining a strength 7 hit unless they can jump out of the way . |
| 26 | I do n't think they can put up with the traumas it might involve . ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't help feeling that some women would prefer a doll than a child , something they can put back in the box when they 're tired of it . |