Example sentences of "can [coord] [verb] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The importance of this way of conceptualising drug use lies in its ability to treat drug use non-judgementally as a continuing process which can and does vary between individuals and through time for the same individual . |
| 3 | We saw in the previous section that there are limits to rationality , and that thought can and does break through those limits on different levels . |
| 4 | This God can and does break into human life , and sometimes he does it through the violent , the unexpected , the alien . |
| 5 | All of this can and does happen in formal schools . |
| 6 | It is a tribute to the tribunals that the technicality at the heart of the appellate process in these tribunals can and does coexist with the relative informality in atmosphere and with procedural flexibility . |
| 7 | There is evidence to suggest that unprotected vaginal intercourse with an infected woman is particularly risky for the man during the woman 's period , though transmission can and does occur at other times . |
| 8 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
| 9 | Many facilities that are seen as key characteristics of an exchange , such as standardised contracts , transparency , liquidity and screen-trading , all can and do exist in off-exchange markets , such as forex and Brent . |
| 10 | The inferences that may be placed in data materials can and do change as theoretical frameworks change and shift . |
| 11 | The Regional Council has not attempted to argue that increased levels of infill can and do compensate for a shortage in the HP4 supply . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There is a " down side " to this aspect of a career in advertising for the long hours can and do interfere with attempts to strike a balance between work and play , career and home . |
| 14 | It is known that both cannibalistic and non-cannibalistic individuals can and do develop from the same batch of eggs . |
| 15 | Very serious consequences can and do follow from people or organisations being indifferent to the results of their actions . |
| 16 | Returning to my brief of animal intelligence , animals can and do act as members of a group against other conspecific groups . |
| 17 | Boxers can and do die in the ring . |
| 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 | Although , for some , the tragedies of one generation will be repeated in the next , people can and do learn from experience . |
| 20 | Others can and do work in a different way . |
| 21 | For , while editorial priorities and earth-shrinking technologies can and do work against the interests of the war 's officialdom , the degree to which even the less servile sections of the media provide a platform for coherent dissenting views is incredibly limited . |