Example sentences of "can [conj] [vb base] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , problems can and do arise even with statistical calculations , one of the commonest being the build-up of rounding errors . |
| 32 | However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute . |
| 33 | Balancing an existing roster is of primary importance to a major company , whereas some smaller independent companies can and do concentrate on a particular sound or style of music . |
| 34 | There is a " down side " to this aspect of a career in advertising for the long hours can and do interfere with attempts to strike a balance between work and play , career and home . |
| 35 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 36 | Health Board administrators with a predominantly managerial ideology can and do take decisions which profoundly affect patients and staff , including medical staff . |
| 37 | Gramsci is therefore arguing that class cleavages can and do take spatial forms , such as urban capitalist middle-class versus rural semi-feudal peasantry . |
| 38 | This is n't a glib advertising slogan but a statement of simple truth , because smoke detector alarms can and do save lives . |
| 39 | The multi-interpretability of film ( polysemy ) and the realisation that spectators can and do adopt diverse identificatory positions in watching film has led to a new and more complex conception of film-viewing . |
| 40 | It is known that both cannibalistic and non-cannibalistic individuals can and do develop from the same batch of eggs . |
| 41 | In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to . |
| 42 | The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on . |
| 43 | The aim must be to make ferreting as uncomplicated as possible , but it is undeniable that complications can and do occur . |
| 44 | Although the evidence presented does not refute the claim that in the long run exchange rates compensate for domestic inflation differentials , it does show that over periods of several years real exchange rate anomalies can and do occur . |
| 45 | But whatever the accuracy of any aid , false indications and failures can and do occur . |
| 46 | Pointes can and do have an enormous part to play in classical ballet because there are so many ways in which they can be used to give character and variety to a role . |
| 47 | Very serious consequences can and do follow from people or organisations being indifferent to the results of their actions . |
| 48 | Athesists , in religious terms , can and do follow the programme . |
| 49 | Returning to my brief of animal intelligence , animals can and do act as members of a group against other conspecific groups . |
| 50 | Accidents can and do happen , but if something happens to the horse , however minor , tell the owner — do n't let her find out that it has overreached or whatever , when she next looks at her horse . |
| 51 | But serious accidents can and do happen every day of the year . |
| 52 | Whatever precautions are taken to minimise the hazards mentioned , accidents still can and do happen . |
| 53 | Miracles can and do happen , if we are willing to stop struggling and allow them into our lives . |
| 54 | What it seems to mean is that if this pump had been required in an emergency , it would not have been immediately available and although , after a lifetime in industry , I know that such errors and failure can and do happen , there is really no room for such occurrences in nuclear generation . |
| 55 | True plants are unable to perform this trick , but many can and do use a scent to avoid danger . |
| 56 | While poor segmenting and labelling contributed greatly to the problem , there is psycholinguistic evidence that people can and do use later information to recover from errors and ambiguities in the input . |
| 57 | But there are other manifestations which , properly planned and resourced , can and do yield well . |
| 58 | What many of them use now to get their highs are solvents which , as you can read on page 28 , can and do kill . |
| 59 | Boxers can and do die in the ring . |
| 60 | But how to explain the collective , and indeed international dimensions of capitalism and racism , which can and do operate independently of any local patterns of linkage ? |