Example sentences of "and they can [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 2 | It is possible for these to ‘ run away from you ’ , and they can do more damage than you 'd imagine . |
| 3 | For reasons as yet unexplained , genital warts proliferate markedly during pregnancy , and they can assume gigantic proportions if left untreated . |
| 4 | Ask these young people questions straight out , not written down and they can answer most problems . |
| 5 | You see lots of people find that they w they do best when they join a class and they go to the class , it 's there every week and th or maybe more than once a week and that keeps them going because they are , they 're expected , it 's a definite booking , and that 's it and they can go that way . |
| 6 | ‘ Both have their value , and they can enrich each other . |
| 7 | Whereas biological agents have hitherto been less efficient in total kill , speed of kill and activity spectrum , they are also attractive — resistance to them in natural pest populations is infrequent , and they can present fewer hazards to operators and the environment . |
| 8 | So they have a wide tax base and they can generate large sums of money if they , if they choose to do so and in different states there 's a different culture , a different attitude towards public spending and taxation and so on . |
| 9 | And they can spring some surprises . |
| 10 | This may or may not be desirable : administrators sometimes act more quickly than lawyers and judges ( they are certainly a lot less expensive ) , but they are always vulnerable to regulatory capture and they can make bad decisions if they are poorly funded and undermanned ( for some observations on this issue , see Areeda , 1992 . ) |
| 11 | Now with the motorcycles they spend less time travelling and they can spend more time in the villages doing their educational and health work . |
| 12 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 13 | By relaxing the restriction , we are now allowing any number of genes to mutate simultaneously , and they can add any number , positive or negative , to their current value . |
| 14 | Words however are only symbols and they can have different meanings for different people . |