Example sentences of "can [conj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German Unix house , iXos Software GmbH based in Grassbrunn near Munich , has signed up Unipress Software Inc , Edison , New Jersey , to distribute its database query tool , iXview/SQL and a new application development tool called iXBuild. iXBuild , operating under OSF 's Motif graphical user interface , allows programmers to create applications for technical and scientific markets — the toolkit can if required operate in a WYSWIG mode . |
| 2 | ‘ The mind , taking no notice of itself , is deluded to think it can and doth conceive bodies … without the mind . ’ |
| 3 | Second , the government can and does manipulate the environment , physical , economic and social , in which people live . |
| 4 | He assures them Virgin Atlantic can and does compete on cost as well as service , but he claims British Airways is n't playing fair and has complained to the European commission that B A is offering anti-competitive deals Virgin claims it 's losing business as a result . |
| 5 | It can and does change , even from year to year ; and may change appreciably from decade to decade . |
| 6 | The culture not only allows for change , usually incremental but occasionally radical , but itself can and does change . |
| 7 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |
| 8 | Enright has pointed out with regard to media that ‘ too much attention has been given to the possibilities of the new media supplanting the book , and far too little to the ways in which each can and does supplement the other ’ . |
| 9 | Since electricity generation is the world 's largest source of man-made carbon dioxide , it is quite clear that nuclear power can and does make a very significant contribution to its reduction . |
| 10 | The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance . |
| 11 | The importance of this way of conceptualising drug use lies in its ability to treat drug use non-judgementally as a continuing process which can and does vary between individuals and through time for the same individual . |
| 12 | There are currently 650 , though the number can and does vary . |
| 13 | We saw in the previous section that there are limits to rationality , and that thought can and does break through those limits on different levels . |
| 14 | This God can and does break into human life , and sometimes he does it through the violent , the unexpected , the alien . |
| 15 | It states that ‘ even those medical authorities who label alcoholism a ‘ disease ’ concede that it is a disease that can and does involve significant elements of volition ’ . |
| 16 | This knowledge can and does add fuel to the alarmist ‘ law and order ’ fire : ‘ it 's even worse than we imagined ! ’ |
| 17 | With it , Nozick can and does find independent support for his theory ; he wants to say that the theory gets things right here . |
| 18 | Clearly there are times when information at one level can and does guide the interpretation of a lower-level unit . |
| 19 | Holt can and does believe that children should have them as adults do , and then leaves it up to the child to decide whether or not to exercise them . |
| 20 | I realize that this was done without any intention of hurting anyone , but maybe it would be good to point out that this term can and does offend . |
| 21 | However , elite collusion can and does entail far more than agreement on the ‘ rules of the game ’ . |
| 22 | It can and does encourage your customer to pay only the oldest parts of your total debt and leave the more recent balances unpaid . |
| 23 | It is widely recognised that the classical technique can and does prove a stable basis fur all styles of dance . |
| 24 | The inner game approach rests on the belief that the correct technique can and does develop naturally and painlessly given the opportunity and the right environment . |
| 25 | Death can and does come suddenly in any Home . |
| 26 | Of course , in those situations where the buyer can and does accept part and reject part of the goods ( i.e. where section 30 applies or where the contract is severable , see paragraphs 11–07 and 11–08 above ) , he is entitled to recover any part of the price that he has paid in respect of the rejected part of the goods . |
| 27 | But it can and does happen . |
| 28 | All of this can and does happen in formal schools . |
| 29 | It is a tribute to the tribunals that the technicality at the heart of the appellate process in these tribunals can and does coexist with the relative informality in atmosphere and with procedural flexibility . |
| 30 | The people who know best where crime can and does occur are your employees . |