Example sentences of "they can [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good sense says that they should go as far as they can but return from time to time to those parts of the plan which have not at first been realized . |
| 2 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
| 3 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
| 4 | Once on the needles , the two pieces of knitting ca n't ‘ creep ’ in relation to each other as they can when sewing by hand or machine , so your horizontal bands will match exactly . |
| 5 | This is partly through pupil behaviour forcing teachers to consider whether they can or wish to be merely amoral dispensers of knowledge and exam technique . |
| 6 | in it for a , for a couple of years to get as much as they can and get a |
| 7 | Kylie admitted : ‘ I think Green issues are very , very important and everyone should get involved wherever they can and take notice of the problems . |
| 8 | They can and have safeguarded the provision of humanitarian aid . |
| 9 | However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute . |
| 10 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress . |
| 14 | Many people work at their machines while they can and leave the hand work for quiet times , such as in the evenings whilst watching television . |