Example sentences of "they can [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The five Scottish ‘ Techs ’ have shown over and over again that they can achieve the same high academic standards as our eight universities . |
| 2 | They can give the same information as the text , giving the reader two opportunities of gaining clear understanding . |
| 3 | Since writing about this in New Scientist , I have received numerous letters from readers asking how they can do the same thing in Britain and Europe . |
| 4 | Sheridan said : ‘ The team did very well without me last season and they can do the same again . |
| 5 | They are all female and since they too are also reproductively sufficient unto themselves , they can do the same thing as their mother even before they have left her body . |
| 6 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 7 | If users think they can run the same applications on Solaris , Destiny and Open Desktop then they 'll buy a desktop Unix client . |
| 8 | There is no real difficulty in accepting the functional equivalence of variants such as lt ] and [ ? ] if they can occupy the same position in a set of words ( such as the syllable final position in bat , pit , hot ) without replacement of one by the other altering the semantic form of any item . |
| 9 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 10 | Many men find they can get the same sort of pleasure by using sex toys like dildos or butt plugs up the bum . |
| 11 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |
| 12 | A Local Area Network is a way of connecting computers together so that they can use the same database software , exchange information , or share the use of printers and modems . |