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

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1 There are many issues on which the drinks industry can and does join forces with governments and health promoters to combat alcohol abuse .
2 Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers .
3 With it , Nozick can and does find independent support for his theory ; he wants to say that the theory gets things right here .
4 I realize that this was done without any intention of hurting anyone , but maybe it would be good to point out that this term can and does offend .
5 Returning to my brief of animal intelligence , animals can and do act as members of a group against other conspecific groups .
6 The Regional Council has not attempted to argue that increased levels of infill can and do compensate for a shortage in the HP4 supply .
7 The people who know best where crime can and does occur are your employees .
8 Although the evidence presented does not refute the claim that in the long run exchange rates compensate for domestic inflation differentials , it does show that over periods of several years real exchange rate anomalies can and do occur .
9 American companies can and do bring private antitrust suits — a remedy denied to British companies .
10 Balancing an existing roster is of primary importance to a major company , whereas some smaller independent companies can and do concentrate on a particular sound or style of music .
11 In spite of those findings , the ITC 's chief executive , David Glencross , accepted that the public 's mood can and did change .
12 But some countries can and do make the stuff — Brazil for one uses alcohol/diesel and alcohol/petrol mixes , and the USA has had ‘ gasohol ’ ( petrol with 10% ethanol ) for some years .
13 He knows full well that Christians can and do sin , and if we pretend otherwise we are lying ( 1:8,10 ) .
14 Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky .
15 What it seems to mean is that if this pump had been required in an emergency , it would not have been immediately available and although , after a lifetime in industry , I know that such errors and failure can and do happen , there is really no room for such occurrences in nuclear generation .
16 He assures them Virgin Atlantic can and does compete on cost as well as service , but he claims British Airways is n't playing fair and has complained to the European commission that B A is offering anti-competitive deals Virgin claims it 's losing business as a result .
17 It is known that both cannibalistic and non-cannibalistic individuals can and do develop from the same batch of eggs .
18 APL is based on the premise that individuals can and do learn throughout their lives and that often the ensuing skills , knowledge and abilities are those recognised formally in qualifications .
19 This knowledge can and does add fuel to the alarmist ‘ law and order ’ fire : ‘ it 's even worse than we imagined ! ’
20 Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function .
21 However , problems can and do arise even with statistical calculations , one of the commonest being the build-up of rounding errors .
22 But the FedPol can and do visit any SenFed planet whenever they want , in pursuit of an inquiry or a suspect .
23 This God can and does break into human life , and sometimes he does it through the violent , the unexpected , the alien .
24 Things can and do go wrong and you do n't want to pressurise yourself because you have to get the equipment back to the hire shop .
25 Amidst these grand claims for the ‘ effects ’ of writing , Olson suppresses the qualification cited above that ‘ whether meaning can be made explicit in text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can ’ and proceeds as though it were agreed and verifiable that writing can and does have such effects because of its intrinsic qualities .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Although , for some , the tragedies of one generation will be repeated in the next , people can and do learn from experience .
29 Redheads can and do wear pinks , as well as terracotta and greens .
30 As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person .
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