Example sentences of "can [conj] [verb] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance . |
| 2 | This knowledge can and does add fuel to the alarmist ‘ law and order ’ fire : ‘ it 's even worse than we imagined ! ’ |
| 3 | There are many issues on which the drinks industry can and does join forces with governments and health promoters to combat alcohol abuse . |
| 4 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
| 5 | There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistic experiments that people can and do make decisions about a word 's identity before they have access to its complete phonological specification . |
| 6 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |
| 7 | We can and do make use of all kinds of resources in our own ways : we learn how to draw stickmen and produce our own graphics , we write and record our own audio dialogues , some institutions produce the bulk of their own print materials . |
| 8 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |