Example sentences of "they can [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can decide that America 's problem is the ‘ ghetto poor ’ — the phrase that William Julius Wilson , of the University of Chicago , now prefers to ‘ underclass ’ . |
| 2 | Or they can decide that the main problem is that relative poverty got no better during the prosperous 1980s . |
| 3 | I agree with you but they can achieve that in a different form , if that 's your purpose it does n't need to be achieved like this . |
| 4 | Woodworking businesses still have some way to go before they can show that they are controlling the hardwood dust emissions from machinery . |
| 5 | Failing this , the section either ought to be amended to provide , as does s.61 ( below ) , for persons to sue where they have been adversely affected , or , as is the case in the US , where they can show that they have traded during the same time period as the insider . |
| 6 | That is why we are committed to provide the opportunity afforded by trust status and to grant it to those health care units that seek it , where they can show that they will use the freedoms that that status involves . |
| 7 | My friends are very anxious that there should be no difference between their people and the Mamur Zapt , and will do all they can to see that things go no further , at least for the time being . |
| 8 | When they can feel that the widest part of the baby 's head has entered the brim of the pelvis , the baby 's head is engaged . |
| 9 | They can protest that voters show little interest in the demographic timebomb , or childcare problems . |
| 10 | Many animal killers like their prey to writhe and scream , not because they are sadistic but simply because that is the way they can ensure that they are about to eat fresh , healthy food . |
| 11 | They can ensure that the family receives all the practical help available from statutory and voluntary bodies — perhaps the use of a day nursery , better housing and so on — and they can help to reduce the parents ' guilt and anxiety and encourage them to be accepting and relaxed and neither reject nor over-protect their handicapped child . |
| 12 | will do all they can to ensure that the details of the policy and of individual schemes are clearly understood by teachers . |
| 13 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |
| 14 | Close cooperation between Christian and Muslim leaders is essential for national unity , and both faith groups are challenged to do all they can to ensure that belief in one creation and one God is a force that unites people rather than dividing them . |
| 15 | Close cooperation between Christian and Muslim leaders is essential for national unity , and both faith groups are challenged to do all they can to ensure that belief in one creation and one God is a force that unites people rather than dividing them . |
| 16 | The fact is that industrialists are scared stiff of a Labour Government and are determined to do all that they can to ensure that we achieve , as we shall , a resounding and decisive Conservative victory . |
| 17 | They can say that if one takes belief in a God or gods as the criterion of a religion , then classical Buddhism can not be classified as a religion . |
| 18 | They can argue that they make their position on these things perfectly clear , and that if people vote for them then they know what they are going to get and have no right to claim that sabbatarianism is being forced on them . |
| 19 | If this is a difficulty , the solution is to allow firms to present a case for exemption from those rules if they can demonstrate that the public interest will be furthered thereby . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the Amazonian Kayapo Indians , Payacan , says that scientists will be welcome if they can demonstrate that their activities will bring benefits to the Indians , but he adds that : " lots of scientists just come and ask and ask and ask and then go away and we never hear about their results " . |
| 21 | The Act includes a " citizen-suit " provision , under which individuals can challenge violations of the law , providing they can demonstrate that they will in some way be harmed by the violation . |
| 22 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |
| 23 | They can declare that a certain day shall be a national holiday , that a certain organization shall have legal personality , that a person shall be granted citizenship or shall be divorced or excommunicated , that certain land shall be dedicated to the public , or that some people shall have certain rights , and much else . |
| 24 | They can find that ou find out the interest I suppose . |
| 25 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 26 | ‘ No , it is not that , they can see that women are more militant than the men , doing more work on the picket line . |
| 27 | But they can see that there are advantages , worth paying a price for , to an orderly , step-by-step separation , as the federal prime minister , Ante Markovic , reminded everybody recently . |
| 28 | They can see that the UN gives them a position at the bargaining table . |
| 29 | But despite the current popularity of Personal , Social and Health Education , Active Tutorial Work , and so on , and whatever the rhetoric of the school , they can see that their prime concern is only incidental to the formal scheme of things , and they know that the national tide is not running in their direction . |
| 30 | Still , he feels that the waiters know that he comes from Dearborn and they can see that in his cashmere tweed jacket he is sailing under false colours . |