Example sentences of "they can [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may , indeed , deliver another painful lesson in what promises to be a fascinating derby match but Alex Ferguson 's team go into that encounter with pressure eased in the knowledge that they can drop a minimum of six points on a seven-match run-in . |
| 2 | Some present-day achievements are motivated by the hurt of being ignored in the past ; they can represent an attempt to go backwards in time to recover early special relationships in the family . |
| 3 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 4 | Labour in the north of Britain and the Conservatives in the south have so many safe seats that they can suffer a loss of popular votes without this being translated into an equivalent loss of seats . |
| 5 | They can prevent a person from entering your home or even your neighbourhood . |
| 6 | Cos , cos they 're big enough , if they even in love , they can knock a child , well they could knock a grown up flat on your back . |
| 7 | Some are so cunning they can knock a bait off the hook with their tails and then take it almost in one movement . |
| 8 | Psychometric testers have no doubt that they can construct a profile of your personality and aptitudes by asking 1,000 questions during a four-hour session , and by following them with an intensive two-hour interview with an occupational psychologist . |
| 9 | The radical agenda runs something like this : Labour ought to begin talks with the Liberal Democrats on PR ; negotiate electoral pacts with that party , so that they can achieve a majority in 1996 , not just in order to form a government , but to introduce PR ; abandon links with the trade unions , eschew egalitarian tax policies , perhaps even abandon the name ‘ Labour ’ , so as to disavow any claim of being a party that primarily represents a working class that , in self-identification , is constantly dwindling . |
| 10 | We are used to the idea of escape velocity when talking about spacecraft taking off from Earth : unless they can achieve a velocity of about 11.2 km 118 miles ) per second they will never achieve orbit . |
| 11 | How they can ruin a day , the funeral cars proceeding |
| 12 | I do n't know whether people think they can move a dust extract in an hour or two hours . |
| 13 | Syd Tierney , NEC member ‘ The days must go when they can wake a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline from The Sun , and get him to sign an injunction . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They can spot a fake at twenty paces . |
| 15 | They can spot an investigation before it 's even been properly launched . |
| 16 | All ISE members are entitled to trade on LTOM , where they can undertake a variety of different functions ranging from broking through to market making and clearing . |
| 17 | If fast-food take-aways want to find their best prospects they can do a lot worse than identify areas which have a high proportion of ‘ households sharing access to a bath ’ . |
| 18 | Now if you know that somebody is a drug addict and they 've just had an injection you keep away from them , erm if they 're having a bad trip , whatever they call it , because you do n't , they become very violent , they can do a lot of damage , now the only time you will step in and help is when they go unconscious , but at the same time remember protect yourself , we 're talking about needles here and probably shared needles , you must be terribly careful that you do not get pricked by a needle , especially if , they have a habit of sticking needles under lapels , so always be aware of this , if a person is a drug addict , in fact if you can find some easier way of turning them into the recovery position , do so , erm , you can then obviously either call the ambulance . |
| 19 | get erm a preview of it so that i , er the day it comes out they can do a review on it . |
| 20 | We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up . |
| 21 | In many institutions which train primary and first school teachers , the teachers themselves have an option as to whether they can do a science course or not and then even if they do it it 's usually very biologically biased erm towards the natural sciences . |
| 22 | In many institutions which train primary and first school teachers , the teachers themselves have an option as to whether they can do a science course or not and then even if they do it it 's usually very biologically biased erm towards the natural sciences . |
| 23 | They can discharge a journeyman from service without his master 's content ; they can advance their wages , and in many instances , prevent the master taking more apprentices than they approve of , and such a number , as the nature of the work requires . |
| 24 | ‘ If they can stand dogs piddling on them they can stand a bit o' paint . ’ |
| 25 | They have to address an unseen audience through the camera and they can prepare a script for their talk . |
| 26 | er it , it proved it like in America they can build a car from end of the production line to the other end , finished , running forty nine seconds |
| 27 | forty nine seconds and they can build a car |
| 28 | They begin to feel that the job is there so that they can earn a living , rather than that they are doing the job itself ! |
| 29 | Merely providing the site will involve the destruction of two trees , which are part of the avenue , but that does n't matter to the County Council because erm they 're not responsible , they can override a tree preservation order and I think this just is morally wrong . |
| 30 | Queensland aborigines believe they can sing a man to death , and indeed recently managed to sing the state 's premier — a white man , a New Zealand migrant who cared little for ‘ black fellows ’ — out of office . |