Example sentences of "they can [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The training tempo increases over the next few weeks … as cox and crew alike attempt to learn all they can about the famous course . |
| 2 | Solicitors who do not tell their clients in advance as much as they can about the likely cost of a piece of work — or exceed an estimate without notice — are now at risk of having their charges reduced by the Law Society under its powers to penalise Inadequate Professional Services . |
| 3 | But they collect everything they can about the notorious criminals . |
| 4 | He plays a street artist , just one of many downtrodden but not downhearted characters getting by as best they can amid the urban squalor . |
| 5 | Both will be attempting to reach Montpellier this year and both have been trying to experience as much professional golf as they can during the past year . |
| 6 | At the other end of the spectrum , some farmers are so keen to pass on as much as they can to the next generation they leave themselves and their spouses with no capital or income on which to live . |
| 7 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 8 | While everyone in the U.S. rugby community is greatly saddened by these injuries , and are doing what they can for the crippled players and their families , no feels quite as upset as Toks Akpata . |
| 9 | No , cos it 's , you just watch somebody smack a ball as hard as they can with the one wood and see how far it goes . |
| 10 | Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work . |
| 11 | Neither have much influence over those countries most concerned with getting what they can from the colder world of sauve qui peut . |