Example sentences of "can [conj] [vb base] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Redheads can and do wear pinks , as well as terracotta and greens . |
| 2 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
| 3 | There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistic experiments that people can and do make decisions about a word 's identity before they have access to its complete phonological specification . |
| 4 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |
| 5 | We can and do make use of all kinds of resources in our own ways : we learn how to draw stickmen and produce our own graphics , we write and record our own audio dialogues , some institutions produce the bulk of their own print materials . |
| 6 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 7 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
| 8 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |
| 9 | Certainly both gay camp and gay machismo can and do problematize femininity and masculinity as traditionally understood . |
| 10 | Health Board administrators with a predominantly managerial ideology can and do take decisions which profoundly affect patients and staff , including medical staff . |
| 11 | This is n't a glib advertising slogan but a statement of simple truth , because smoke detector alarms can and do save lives . |