Example sentences of "they can [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although libraries ( especially young peoples ' libraries ) are not the havens of quiet of folk myth , they can cater for such children if staff are trained to recognize and respect them . |
| 2 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 3 | Unlike the BBC radio stations , which are funded by the television licence fee , the independents depend almost entirely for their revenues on advertising , which they can broadcast for nine minutes in an hour . |
| 4 | If they believe that by cutting the salaries of two or three people at the top of the operation they can pay for all those goodies they are living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 5 | Between April 27 and May 19 , they can travel for half fare , instead of the usual one-third discount . |
| 6 | Under these circumstances , it is unlikely that foreign computer firms will scramble to take advantage of the new policy under which they can subscribe for 30 per cent of equity in a local producer . |
| 7 | Because the money they can get for this mixed paper must be a pittance . |
| 8 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 9 | they can come for another little holiday at Easter . |
| 10 | Could that be for example because males with resources would want normally to acquire youthful wives , or perhaps it might in other words it could be could n't it that if males provide resources to females that they can use for primal investment , this would then have selective effects on females who will want certain things in order to get erm the investment and one of the things they might want to do is to look youthful . |