Example sentences of "they can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What comes across , to us , is that workers , on the whole , do not feel they can change the principal features of their world of work … |
| 2 | The attention of individual members can be drawn to small , practical ways in which they can change the dynamic processes within the family . |
| 3 | They may , and often do , leave it to the debtors to see if they can procure the additional security . |
| 4 | A frequent complaint from companies using distributors is that , because they are independent businesses acting independently , they can decide the final selling price to the customer . |
| 5 | ‘ In mature areas they can affect the fiscal terms under which we operate . |
| 6 | The poor die young — before they can contract the chronic diseases that dearly cost national health schemes . |
| 7 | Now they think they can cure the defective gene in the lungs . |
| 8 | Such proposals include : ( i ) longer term agreements so that the full benefits of the scheme can be realised ; ( ii ) greater incentives for water level management ; ( iii ) developing a tiered system of payments in all ESAs to reflect different levels of environmental quality ; ( iv ) ensuring that farmers only enter the scheme if they can achieve the specified standards of water management etc . |
| 9 | Promotional groups will only be effective when they can deliver the full support of their clientele . |
| 10 | Will he confirm that , provided they can deliver the national curriculum , they will continue to have an important role in modern education ? |
| 11 | They can feed the hard , round ball which is the head , the softer round rump , and the firm back that tells them which direction the baby if facing . |
| 12 | Those who provide public services will have to prove they can give the right quality at the right cost . |
| 13 | We see that er there is no possibility our children can have because unless until they move around so freely as the Western children do move , that is the only way they can choose the right sort of person as a , as the companion for family . |
| 14 | Voluntary organisation they said , in their desire for recognition and funds , sometimes seem all too willing to conspire with the statutory sector on the basis that they can do the impossible , but miracles take a little longer . |
| 15 | whereas people they reckon that they can do it , they can do the whole lot for eighteen hundred |
| 16 | If they are accurate , the new Foxbats can not only evade our missiles , they can attain the very top level of the stratosphere , and maintain a speed which is only marginally sub-orbital . |
| 17 | Women may have the advantage of being less fixed in the way they can express the creative light . |
| 18 | " If they think they can discover the lost vein , or by driving a new level find a fresh one , they will do one or the other for their own advantage " . |
| 19 | ‘ Instead we see a defending , retreating side rewarded with possession if they can stop the attacking side with the ball and prevent that ball from emerging . |
| 20 | Most of all , if opposition batsman would like to get out ( the dollier the catch the better ) they can start the long walk to the pavilion in the knowledge that it was in a good cause , and not just that of Barney cricket . |
| 21 | Whereas the best formations for infantry are massed ranks , the best formations for missile troops are long thin lines where they can bring the maximum number of weapons to bear . |
| 22 | Having chosen the story , theme or music , choreographers must consider the available living material through which they can mould the particular style of dance appropriate to their ideas . |
| 23 | When they are not afraid , they can meet the real animals and accept them . |
| 24 | Announcing a campaign often boosts sales to the trade , because forthcoming television advertising may persuade grocers , for example , to stock up so that they can meet the extra demand . |
| 25 | Discovering just how much creatures with nervous systems of this degree of complexity can remember , and whether they can meet the rigorous criteria laid down by association psychologists as to behaviour to be counted as learning , classical or operant conditioning , becomes a matter of the ingenuity of the experimenter in designing appropriate , biologically relevant tasks . |
| 26 | I should like hon. Members to give TECs not only their support but the time to develop their approach locally to see whether they can meet the high expectations that understandably now exist . |
| 27 | First , it may be an aspect of the decision whether disabled persons are ‘ qualified ’ or not , in the sense of whether they can perform the essential functions of the job . |
| 28 | These are examples of 386 memory managers and they can perform the clever trick of converting ordinary extended memory into old fashioned expanded memory , using nothing but the memory juggling built into the 386 chip . |
| 29 | A person full of confidence feels safe in having a go at most things , their circle of safety is thus very large , they can perform the given task anytime anywhere . |
| 30 | The received waves are called radar echoes and they can carry the various categories of information that can be borne by any em wave , as outlined in section 3.1.2 , though planetary temperatures can not normally be extracted by radar . |