Example sentences of "can [conj] [verb] [vb infin] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many issues on which the drinks industry can and does join forces with governments and health promoters to combat alcohol abuse . |
| 2 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |
| 5 | 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 . |