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 .
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