Example sentences of "[adv] they can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore they can move without the constraining presence of the very noticeable uniform and its ‘ big hat ’ . |
| 2 | There may not be much they can do , but what else is there going for you now ? ’ |
| 3 | getting in touch with him , but nothing mu much they can do , you know at a weekend . |
| 4 | Two hideous yuppies in tubular stainless steel sipping minimalist cocktails — no olives or fruit salad — God , give my ageing pectorals strength ! — and contemplating how much they can borrow to house their sterile fucking , dear . |
| 5 | A short ‘ idiot 's guide ’ to fundraising ( of the sort this idiot would need ) with suggestions about events and methods of fundraising ( including how much they can expect from house-to-house collecting ) , any rules they need to know , how to link with CA , how to do a bit of educating through a display or briefing meeting or a good enjoyable social occasion to launch the effort and raise the level of interest and understanding . |
| 6 | The messages for local managers are that there is a need to allow time to pass before the linked activities which revolve around the three major innovations of the 1980s ( NCVQ , TVEI extension , TECs ) reveal how much they can contribute to each other in terms of an essentially joint strategy . |
| 7 | It is partly the recession and partly companies taking a realistic look at how much they can afford . ’ |
| 8 | How much they can take in depends partially on the structure of their leaves . |
| 9 | Building societies themselves always reckoned that , over time , prices would go up in line with people 's incomes — which govern how much they can spend . |
| 10 | ‘ People are likely to sit down and work out how much they can save by buying now , and then they 'll come back to us , ’ says Evans Halshaw general manager Joe Curley . |
| 11 | Public Choice theory argues that bureaucrats are judged by the size of the budget that they control and by how much they can increase it . |
| 12 | Basically they can add or subtract , and anything more complicated than this has to be achieved by breaking down the more elaborate procedures down to a sometimes large number of successive steps . |
| 13 | How long they can remain silent is uncertain . |
| 14 | The allied commanders must also consider how long they can continue the air campaign without wearing out their airmen . |
| 15 | You know how long they can keep people hanging around . ’ |
| 16 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 17 | Girls somehow grow up thinking that perhaps they can do both , but they think that can have , you know , five or ten years off work and then go back to it . |
| 18 | Perhaps they can go faster than us . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps they can help us . |
| 20 | Perhaps they can help . ’ |
| 21 | All they can cope with I think . |
| 22 | Miss O'Keeffe ( sic ) , is rather French , for though Proust , Paul Morand and Jean Cocteau had done all they can do to break the old forms , and ‘ French ’ may come to mean something else in the future ; at present it means planning the work out in one 's mind completely before beginning upon it . |
| 23 | All they can get from other people is advice , and not instruction . |
| 24 | All they can hear . |
| 25 | The Government continue to press local education authorities to remove surplus places , since only they can make proposals for reorganisation . |
| 26 | If the complainant remains unhappy about the conclusion , the file must be referred to the Investigation Committee , since in these circumstances only they can conclude the investigation . |
| 27 | Notwithstanding that threat , I am confident in backing our miners , because only they can offer the generators long-term contracts which guarantee falling prices , paid for in sterling and free from exchange rate fluctuations . |
| 28 | If Thompson is correct , then such presentations are as simplistic as many of the police images which imply that society is consistently under attack from rampaging and ubiquitous criminal enemies , and which ( it follows ) only they can fight off and defeat . |
| 29 | So — if only they can overcome the obvious difficulties , inter-tidal creatures find rich pickings . |
| 30 | If he is completely silent , they are more than satisfied , if only they can see him . |