Example sentences of "they can [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although libraries ( especially young peoples ' libraries ) are not the havens of quiet of folk myth , they can cater for such children if staff are trained to recognize and respect them . |
| 2 | Held in a privately owned Mews House off Porchester Terrace — just five minutes from Marylebone Register office — they can cater for up to 40 . |
| 3 | But it is also due partly to less creditable reasons : women 's wages and the benefits they can draw for their children when they are at work are generally lower here ; and day care for children is scarcer and poorer than in many other countries . |
| 4 | One or two of the others feel the same but they can speak for themselves . |
| 5 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , other callers have so much to say that they can talk for up to an hour and a half about common family problems ; about bullying , pregnancy , drug and alcohol abuse , bereavement and the most common subject of all sexual and physical abuse . |
| 7 | Unlike the BBC radio stations , which are funded by the television licence fee , the independents depend almost entirely for their revenues on advertising , which they can broadcast for nine minutes in an hour . |
| 8 | Fulfilment of their legal obligation , would send a powerful message to the contestants : to the Palestinians of the occupied territories that they can hope for protection , and to Israel that it can not disobey international law with impunity . |
| 9 | At the very most , they can hope for a modest share in a possible coalition government . |
| 10 | The consortium leaders say the best they can hope for is getting back half their money but many of the miners look set to reject the offer . |
| 11 | The best they can hope for is the No.2 spot or the play-offs . |
| 12 | Others find in the rose elaborated chemical compounds readily available that they can utilize for colour pigments , their own body structures — and even scents to attract each other ! |
| 13 | ‘ They can pay for the lorries out of that . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They 're living off beans and cheese and horse and ass-meat if they can pay for it , but even the price of dogs and cats is getting on the high side . |
| 15 | If they believe that by cutting the salaries of two or three people at the top of the operation they can pay for all those goodies they are living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 16 | Even if we ca n't provide exactly what they want , we can provide ideas they can adjust for their particular model . ’ |
| 17 | A working class , disciplined for industrial work , is in the process of formation at the new sites : the organisation of these workers inside the labour process , on the production line , also embraces the possibility of their developing forms of political and social self-organisation with which they can struggle for their own development . |
| 18 | I think if you can calf them and then put them onto the floor I think when there are sides that they can feed for themselves more there would be nothing wrong with a floor byre at all really . |
| 19 | Thresher also offers in-house and open learning course-based activities to all its managers in order that they can study for the Wine and Spirit Education Trust Higher Certificate , which is a product knowledge-based certificate . |
| 20 | Dummies can come to life in books , as it seems they can do for their masters on the stage : and this miracle depends , not only on the author , but also on the people he knows , who may indeed be thought to participate in what he is , and who are likely to participate in his ventriloquism . |
| 21 | Also it is something they can do for you and gives the visit a sense of occasion . |
| 22 | ‘ The main problem is that some of my bones are crumbling and doctors have got to have a look to see what they can do for me . |
| 23 | It is hard for parishes to know what exactly they can do for the unemployed . |
| 24 | Christians , too , look to Abraham as the father of all those who depend in faith on God rather than on anything they can do for themselves ( see Romans 4:16 ) . |
| 25 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 26 | For the families and individuals this means that they depend for their electricity on what they can generate for themselves , grow much of their own food and recycle their own wastes . |
| 27 | Many other fishermen think carp anglers are mad because they can go for days without a bite . |
| 28 | Well , they can go for a job , for example , and because they have no address they ca n't get the job , because they are not reliable . |
| 29 | The requirement that a candidate must get the support of 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party in order to stand is like asking someone to collect 13,000 nominations in a constituency before they can stand for parliament . |
| 30 | They can last for up to 110 years ( some CFCs for 20,000 years ) and are the most pernicious greenhouse gases . |