Example sentences of "[coord] their [noun sg] can not [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Trade unions are only as strong as their membership allows them to be and their leadership can not be expected to perform miracles . |
2 | But , as will also be discussed later , the problems they will pose and their cost can not be predicted with such certainty . |
3 | For one thing , those intervening formulations have been profoundly determining of our own culture and consciousness , and their influence can not be erased ; even deconstructed , they continue to exert an influence . |
4 | Women are forgetful , and their testimony can not be considered reliable . |
5 | Individual saints may testify to God 's supernatural provision , but their experience can not be universalised . |
6 | The red thing A is colour-similar — as distinct from shape-similar or size-similar , although it can be all of these to the red thing B. But their colour can not be defined in terms of their colour-similarity . |