Example sentences of "they can [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , generally known that many trade unions choose the winter months for strikes because they can exert more pressure on employers than during other periods of the year and not so much because their members can claim tax rebates . |
| 2 | Among the various choices available to electors in different countries are the following : they may vote for one candidate , or a specified number of candidates , or for as many candidates as there are members to be elected ; they may cumulate two votes on one candidate ; they may cast votes on more than one list ; presented with lists on which the parties have arranged the candidates in an order of preference they can change that order . |
| 3 | Children do not have that choice , and if they are not helped by those they rely on to deal with their frightening and disturbing feelings then they can suffer considerable harm . |
| 4 | All segments and bristles , they can anchor one end while pushing themselves forward with the other . |
| 5 | Alarm calls are best requested from people who you like and trust — such as family and good friends — because they can place some strain on a relationship . |
| 6 | In some ways they are even better than our own , for a squid can distinguish polarised light which we can not do and their retinas have a finer structure which means , almost certainly , that they can distinguish finer detail than we can . |
| 7 | Both sides hope they can sign that agreement in Washington during the current 11th round of the official Middle East peace talks sponsored by the United States and Russia . |
| 8 | The more heavily overweight people are , the more swiftly they can shed surplus fat on a slimming diet . |
| 9 | I just do n't see how they can waste that money , but there you are , I said that one day , I , I put down that fact today |
| 10 | Social workers have an important role in raising clients ' consciousness of the structural sources of their difficulties so that they can achieve greater influence and control over their lives . |
| 11 | What I , one of the things that I , I think you must have somewhere , and that is that at some stage you order something , you get it in and somehow someone has to tell accounts that yes , they can pay that invoice . |
| 12 | Additionally , if mammalian tissues are used intact they can exhibit anisotropic solute diffusion — ie different in different directions . |
| 13 | For Clare Short and Jo Richardson , this is undoubtedly accentuated by the support they can give each other in a world where all the benchmarks are male , where rivalry is high and trust low . |
| 14 | Briefly , child psychology is a luxury which only a small section of the world 's parents can afford to consider : mothers need a respite from the most urgent problems of hunger , sickness and exposure before they can give much attention to questions of personal adjustment and maladjustment . |
| 15 | If they need to send someone to collect you , they can give that person the code . |
| 16 | They can give early warning of stability problems and enable the corrective action to be taken at an early stage and thus save time and development resource . |
| 17 | When mistakes are made , they can prompt complex law suits . |
| 18 | In theory , you have to ensure that you have at least two trees in flower at the same time so that they can pollinate each other , otherwise you may get no fruit at all . |
| 19 | Cavalry can not break into a solid phalanx of pikes until a way has been cut for them , but once in they can do fearful slaughter . |
| 20 | but a lot of those were tiddlers , that that that maybe it maybe it 's better to use experienced investigators , and and because they can do that work so much more quickly anyway , I I do n't know , I feel a bit uncomfortable with this one year contract . |
| 21 | ‘ Children with no conception of success or failure can be kidded into believing they can do any job . |
| 22 | One of the disability lobby 's persistent fears is that people will be pushed off the invalidity benefit into disability working allowance if they can do some work . |
| 23 | It is possible for these to ‘ run away from you ’ , and they can do more damage than you 'd imagine . |
| 24 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 25 | If they are left entirely unqualified they can do more harm than good to family relationships . |
| 26 | He and Matthew come every Saturday as soon as the doors open at 11 so they can dance all night . |
| 27 | So , many will start mopping up smaller firms so they can show reasonable growth . ’ |
| 28 | Keep an eye on self-seeded plants as they can show interesting colour variations . |
| 29 | They can go all day and all night . ’ |
| 30 | You see lots of people find that they w they do best when they join a class and they go to the class , it 's there every week and th or maybe more than once a week and that keeps them going because they are , they 're expected , it 's a definite booking , and that 's it and they can go that way . |