Example sentences of "they can and [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute . |
2 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
5 | 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 . |