Example sentences of "can [conj] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American companies can and do bring private antitrust suits — a remedy denied to British companies . |
| 2 | Newspapers can and do express partisan preferences . |
| 3 | Gramsci is therefore arguing that class cleavages can and do take spatial forms , such as urban capitalist middle-class versus rural semi-feudal peasantry . |
| 4 | While poor segmenting and labelling contributed greatly to the problem , there is psycholinguistic evidence that people can and do use later information to recover from errors and ambiguities in the input . |
| 5 | If we can but contrive to make two rooms warm , & wholesome , we will laugh in the faces of Gloom & Ill-lookingness . ’ |