Example sentences of "[prep] they can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second case the sizes of the beads and the holes through them can vary . |
| 2 | A family member who is addicted to " fixing " others and being a caretaker for them can hinder the chances or primary sufferers finding progress or recovery for themselves . |
| 3 | At the early end of parenting women can spend literally years in a state of near exhaustion , which for them can make sexual relations very unattractive . |
| 4 | That children who experience a level of difficulty in learning significant enough for a Record of Needs to have been opened up for them can learn a foreign language within a special school setting . |
| 5 | The two principal isotopes of oxygen , , are chemically very nearly identical , but modest fractionation between them can occur when oxygen is partitioned between phases in which it is bound in very different ways . |
| 6 | CONGRATULATIONS to the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , for proving the law that if one department is capable of one stupid press release , two between them can raise the stupidity by an order of magnitude . |
| 7 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 8 | And the strongest of them can kick twice , not just 300 metres from the line but again at ten metres . |
| 9 | Yet many of them come to terms with it magnificently , trying so hard not to add their pain to that of their children , in a situation that sometimes neither of them can alter . |
| 10 | The crackling of a fire , the dawn chorus of the birds , the sound of waves upon the shore ; most of these go unnoticed and yet each of them can give a great deal of pleasure if we could only learn to become aware of them . |
| 11 | But it 's the same as England , really ; some of them can handle me and some of them ca n't . |
| 12 | Two hundred pounds a week , some of them can earn . ’ |
| 13 | In a normal conversation , the people involved are of equal status , and any one of them can change the topic under discussion or introduce new points . |
| 14 | The conditions for perfect competition are that : ( a ) there should be many small firms producing identical products ( so that no individual firm can influence the price of the product or the wage rate ) ; ( b ) there should be many individual workers ( so that no one of them can influence the wage rate ) ; ( c ) there should be perfect mobility of all factors of production ; ( d ) all labour and jobs should be homogeneous ; ( e ) there should be perfect information on the part of all buyers and sellers ; ( f ) wages and prices should be perfectly flexible , upwards and downwards . |
| 15 | But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director . |
| 16 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 17 | Seven of them use wheelchairs and so staff need to raise an extra £4,000 so twelve of them can accompany the residents , who are paying their own way . |
| 18 | The thing about the Paddies is that some of them can pass as English if they 've been brought up here . |
| 19 | Which proves my point about teachers ; even the best of them can go completely over the top , for no reason whatsoever . |
| 20 | A defect in any of them can disturb the balance of the whole system , and the use of the right drug to restore balance had evident possibilities , if the right drugs could be discovered or invented . |
| 21 | The final plan , as it is adapted and developed by Lorestan , has less of a boy 's melodrama in it but it is the Rat 's plan , and it is the Rat who advises Marco to pose as a poor , insignificant boy so that the two of them can reach Samavia without attracting attention . |
| 22 | But neither of them can match the pungency of the original , an atmosphere of beaujolais , cigars and malevolence , and of political or legal plots being brewed in the all-night brasseries of Les Halles . |
| 23 | What baffles me is how few of them can spell . |
| 24 | Now er some of them can stop you see . |
| 25 | If there are many siblings who must compete for the mother 's favours , and if no one of them can exclude the others , each will probably demand equality as the next best thing to preference , and most definitely as the best way of preventing the preference of others . |
| 26 | Yeah , but I wonder how many of them can answer these questions |
| 27 | So they want us to go around at half past one or the two of them can start cos we 've got an addition . |
| 28 | How many of them can dance sing and act ? |
| 29 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 30 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |