Example sentences of "[pron] can [conj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The importance of this way of conceptualising drug use lies in its ability to treat drug use non-judgementally as a continuing process which can and does vary between individuals and through time for the same individual .
2 They , among other things , have put Westminster into that category of parliaments which can and do exercise a significant degree of influence over the formation of policy .
3 But how to explain the collective , and indeed international dimensions of capitalism and racism , which can and do operate independently of any local patterns of linkage ?
4 However , this only happens if your debtor wants to defend the action or makes you an offer which you can and do refuse .
5 The culture not only allows for change , usually incremental but occasionally radical , but itself can and does change .
6 We are committed to making any changes that may be required to ensure that we can and do regulate effectively .
7 We can and do make use of all kinds of resources in our own ways : we learn how to draw stickmen and produce our own graphics , we write and record our own audio dialogues , some institutions produce the bulk of their own print materials .
8 Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) .
9 However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute .
10 Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress .
11 The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on .
12 What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate .
13 In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to .
14 ‘ The mind , taking no notice of itself , is deluded to think it can and doth conceive bodies … without the mind . ’
15 The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance .
16 It can and does change , even from year to year ; and may change appreciably from decade to decade .
17 It can and does encourage your customer to pay only the oldest parts of your total debt and leave the more recent balances unpaid .
18 But it can and does happen .
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