Example sentences of "[n mass] can [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
| 2 | Although , for some , the tragedies of one generation will be repeated in the next , people can and do learn from experience . |
| 3 | Some people can and do their own conveyancing , though there are circumstances [ such as complex leasehold properties ] where detailed knowledge of the law is a distinct advantage . |
| 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 | 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 . |