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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Promotional groups will only be effective when they can deliver the full support of their clientele . |
| 11 | Will he confirm that , provided they can deliver the national curriculum , they will continue to have an important role in modern education ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Those who provide public services will have to prove they can give the right quality at the right cost . |
| 14 | HUNDREDS of Darlington Council employees are being briefed about how they can give the best service to customers and chargepayers . |
| 15 | They can give the same information as the text , giving the reader two opportunities of gaining clear understanding . |
| 16 | I think they can score the two goals they need , but whether their often naive defence can prevent Spartak Moscow from spoiling the party remains to be seen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | whereas people they reckon that they can do it , they can do the whole lot for eighteen hundred |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Sheridan said : ‘ The team did very well without me last season and they can do the same again . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We 've got to persuade them to invest in us — to make them see us as the means by which they can topple the Seven . ’ |
| 25 | Women may have the advantage of being less fixed in the way they can express the creative light . |
| 26 | " 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 " . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |