Example sentences of "and they can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this situation you will automatically revert to those fixed-wing reflexes which you spent so much time in developing and they can lead you sadly astray ! |
| 2 | But the meditators maintain they have scientific proof that it does work and they can bring peace to a troubled world . |
| 3 | It is possible for these to ‘ run away from you ’ , and they can do more damage than you 'd imagine . |
| 4 | Someone else likes playing lead and bass guitars , so you build a guitar with two necks and they can do both . ’ |
| 5 | Sheridan said : ‘ The team did very well without me last season and they can do the same again . |
| 6 | Aha , and they can do that in the summary ! |
| 7 | All we and they can do is to resist the degeneration of a justified action of international collective security into a United States ' imperial ego-trip , to stop the affair getting further out of hand , and in doing so to prevent the UN , the only available base for world order , from falling into lasting discredit . |
| 8 | I asked people if th if they would like a complimentary copy of the Saga magazine and all their brochures and they can do so by er , members like myself we 're asked from time to time , do we know any friends who would like a copy ? |
| 9 | Controlling risk is still the first priority and they can do a substantial amount themselves . |
| 10 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 11 | two years older and they can do lots of other things |
| 12 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 13 | erm and they can do the wardrobes and the fitment erm and wardrobes either side erm for eighteen hundred |
| 14 | and they can do all the measurements and the trial grounds and so on |
| 15 | It is their property and they can do with it as they please . |
| 16 | So obviously managers , who 've given some members of their staff trunk access 3 , which is very low , which is Oxford , can say to their staff , ‘ Right , phone New York , phone Florence , phone this , phone that , and get me a list of all these things ’ , and they can do it , because the system does n't look for their code , does n't look for their limiting trunks , erm trunk access code 40 , everybody can use system abbreviated numbers , hash 6 . |
| 17 | And they can cost as little as £5 a week to run . |
| 18 | I mean , we do make all sorts of allowances with exams you know , people repeat words and th and they can leave words out and they ca n't think of a eloquent way of expressing that something at the spur of the moment so it 's |
| 19 | They can waste amounts of chemical product valued far in excess of their wages and destroy the economics of integrated energy usage and they can return such low levels of productivity that excessive and unnecessary staffing levels result . |
| 20 | For reasons as yet unexplained , genital warts proliferate markedly during pregnancy , and they can assume gigantic proportions if left untreated . |
| 21 | They may , for instance , be unaware that they are being spoken to unless referred to by name , and they can miss out on humorous incidents which make the rest of the class laugh . |
| 22 | They thus need only provide care to quality standards which they set for themselves when first agreeing a contract and they can avoid being drawn into the ‘ high volume/doubtful quality ’ trap . |
| 23 | Quite large accretions of atoms can form , and they can crumble and break apart again . |
| 24 | From here they can be drawn up in two ranks , both of which can fire , and they can draw line of sight to almost any place on the field . |
| 25 | Ask these young people questions straight out , not written down and they can answer most problems . |
| 26 | Thus those who were in middle-class occupations will almost certainly enjoy larger pensions and more comfortable houses , and they can expect to suffer fewer disabilities , and live longer too . |
| 27 | They make the most noise — singing , chanting and shouting imprecations against the opposition fans — they run the most and they can represent a rather awesome spectacle to their rivals . |
| 28 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
| 29 | With City-based firms , there 's no problem because their employees realise a share is just a commodity and they can go and sell it and realise some cash . |
| 30 | " The representatives should as soon as possible furnish themselves with a licence , and they can go to any magistrate at hand without any formality requiring a day 's delay " ( Cook v. Gray ( 1891 ) 29 S.L.R. 249 per Lord President Robertson ) . |