Example sentences of "they can [adv] [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often quite surprising to discover just how aware children are of their own needs and how they can frequently articulate the type of resource they need . |
| 2 | With respect to the second of these jobs , terms like ‘ subversion ’ often have such elastic definitions that , again , they can frequently provide the pretext for the surveillance of legitimate political activity . |
| 3 | True , the curia regis , de Banco and other rolls contain mainly names of notable , even famous , families , but they can also record the names of more ordinary folk : 1261 , ‘ Thomas Piket and his wife Cristina versus Ralph le Bret and William his son , and Richard de Langlay in a plea that they cut down trees ’ ; 1262 , ‘ Akyma who was wife of William de Reyney versus William de Bekeford for ⅓ of the moiety of the advowson of the church ’ ; 1318 , ‘ The sheriff to have here William de Bradewas , Matilda Bret , Henry de Knyghteton , Walter de Pyneford , John Keneman , John Weryng , Richard North , Thomas Tredy , and Henry Gledy to show by what right … ‘ , and so on . |
| 4 | They can also avoid the rush down to the beach to secure an umbrella . |
| 5 | All these things prevent the body 's energy flowing smoothly , and those energy ‘ road-blocks ’ are not only the result of stress — they can also compound the problem . |
| 6 | They release the teacher for other work by giving the pupil something which he can operate himself without having to have the teacher there ; and they can also enliven the teaching of otherwise difficult topics . |
| 7 | They can also use the medium to explore character or linguistic or structural features of texts . |
| 8 | They can help you with your training needs your child care and your travel and they can also provide the support you need if you 're not confident about going back to learning . |
| 9 | Now they can either award the deal to the lowest bidder or negotiate some kind of split . |
| 10 | They can either discharge the case , or refer it to the Sheriff for Proof . |
| 11 | They can either follow the path of instrumental reason or they can recover their true character as a modern polis , a site of developing communicative reason . |
| 12 | They can either accept the recommendation , admitting that they are in control of what they do and the situations they create , or more likely they will protest that to take such advice will worsen the situation . |
| 13 | I remind him that there are examples of states coming together — as they have done in the Common Market — but then having to co-exist so closely that they can not stand the sight of one another and begin to fall apart . |
| 14 | If they can not pay the bill they must rely on the services provided voluntarily by solicitors and barristers ; or a law centre ; or come within the statutory advice scheme ; or use another agency ; or do without . |
| 15 | This policy puts the regions in an impossible Catch 22 situation : they can not satisfy the government 's current demand criteria for new rail investment because of past under-investment in the network , and can not stimulate such levels of demand without that investment . |
| 16 | Denounced ‘ designer violence ’ on TV , warning programme-makers that they can not avoid the issue by raising the bogey of censorship . |
| 17 | Member states may , however , demand standards which are more stringent than the ‘ essential ’ standards , but only for their own domestically produced products or services ; they can not prevent the importation of products that comply with Community essential standards even though they may fail to comply with the more stringent domestic standards . |
| 18 | They can not justify the closure of Hustledown House . |
| 19 | A senior British source said yesterday : ‘ If the Irish find they can not ratify the Maastricht treaty there is n't going to be a treaty . ’ |
| 20 | They can not conceive the rest of the country is not in the same shape . ’ |
| 21 | It is then a matter of preference whether you say that they can not choose the goals or that they can not form strategies to achieve them or both . |
| 22 | In my view they can not alter the fact that the cause of death was status asthmaticus , a well known complication of asthma and sadly sometimes , as here , fatal . |
| 23 | This incapacitates them temporarily ; whilst imprisoned they can not victimize the public , although they do continue to victimize other prisoners , sometimes at a rate that exceeds community crime levels . |
| 24 | It is a common tactic of sellers to delay producing the disclosure letter until as late as possible , usually saying that they can not prepare the disclosure letter until the warranties against which disclosure is made have been finalised . |
| 25 | They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered . |
| 26 | Michael Crabtree , a technical director with Marconi , notes that some microprocessor makers discourage the use of their products in potentially hazardous industrial applications , because they can not control the RFI-immunity of the final product . |
| 27 | Although Exell 's reminiscences are coloured by the fact that he was an active Communist and trade unionist , they can not hide the fact that the pay in the new industries was generally good when compared with the majority of the working classes — and very high in periods of prosperity . |
| 28 | At present , however , even with the ‘ top resistance ’ touch fitted to some electronic instruments , they can not match the ability of a good pipe organ to exercise effective control of rhythm and phrasing . |
| 29 | Eritrean educators are frustrated that they can not meet the demand for basic education . |
| 30 | What is not acknowledged is the fact that it is very difficult to tell someone their blood is no good or they can not do the job . |