Example sentences of "[verb] they can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh that 's this er they want they can all have one of these . |
| 2 | Some parents say they can barely afford children : living costs rocketed in the late 1980s , and Taipei is now reckoned to be one of the world 's most expensive cities in which to live . |
| 3 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 4 | But the police say they can still prosecute because the real number plate shows up on the negative . |
| 5 | An independent charity , the association say they can only hope to continue this level of help to sporting organisations with the public 's support . |
| 6 | The police say they can only do their job if that information 's kept secret . |
| 7 | Border police say they can only stand by helplessly as Poles , returning home with their stolen Mercedes and BMWs , suddenly accelerate past them . |
| 8 | He says they can even zoom in on tax discs to see if they 're valid . |
| 9 | But the ruling says they can only pay the bare minimum . |
| 10 | Her family says they can only hope that Katharine 's tragedy will help bring a change in the law , so at least other victims will benefit from her experience . |
| 11 | We have a standard for children which assumes they can either send very strongly amplifies the distress , and therefore , we are not going to taken them terribly seriously , or at least they can actual reach much higher intensities before we do take them seriously , whereas for adults we have a different standard which , which assumes that even slight expressions of distress in adult could be serious . |
| 12 | For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women . |
| 13 | They 've been told they can only get they 're money back from the sale of assets , when the comnpany goes into receivership at the end of April . |
| 14 | They have done it and I know they can hardly believe it themselves sometimes . ’ |
| 15 | But , but if , if they discover that you know they can really get you erm er to er do all their worrying for them , |
| 16 | But if English speakers hear they can usually recognise this as ‘ my turn ’ and not ‘ might earn ’ . |
| 17 | well yes I do tha you 've done this before , that this buffet thing , it 's quite nice , people can sort of like , if they 're staying they can just say y leave it out and you sa eat whenever you want to really in n it ? |
| 18 | As they bargain they can now stop the drama and turn ( out of role ) to their peers and ask for help . |
| 19 | By so doing they can often make modifications which buy off subsequent opposition . |
| 20 | Both are held to economic ransom by a system that ensures they can never free themselves of debt — no matter how hard they try . |
| 21 | All the best rock bands come out of art colleges , etc … and it 's still the case they find they can only reproduce music from Beethoven , Mozart , etc . |
| 22 | Strongly influenced by their worldwide sales to date of over 60 million ‘ Walkman ’ products , they believe they can similarly capture a huge mass market for personal , on-the-move , multimedia information and games . |
| 23 | Medicine , a respected and lucrative profession in Germany as elsewhere , is the discipline that is most oversubscribed , and medical academics are forced to take on far more students than they feel they can reasonably teach . |
| 24 | The conflict over Palestine is not insoluble , if the Arabs bring to the table a peace offer that ordinary Israelis feel they can safely accept . |
| 25 | Today , the detectives on the shoplifting squads , the burglary teams , and the crime squads are casual , but are still clean and orderly ( ‘ prigs ’ assert they can still spot ‘ a horney ’ because of his tidy style and his shoes ) . |
| 26 | No you do n't plug them in , just put the wire in your pocket then they 'll think they can just listen to music . |
| 27 | If England lose they can still reach the finals as one of the best two second-placed teams in the three four-team European groups . |
| 28 | I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground . ’ |
| 29 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 30 | They can issue an Enforcement Notice to cease an unauthorised use or remove an offending development and in the latter case , once the Enforcement Notice has been issued they can also make a Stop Notice which requires all work to cease in a short period , often seven days , until the Enforcement Notice is confirmed or quashed . |