Example sentences of "they can [adv] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can issue an Enforcement Notice to cease an unauthorised use or remove an offending development and in the latter case , once the Enforcement Notice has been issued they can also make a Stop Notice which requires all work to cease in a short period , often seven days , until the Enforcement Notice is confirmed or quashed . |
| 2 | Because catalogues are typically run by someone the mother knows , they can also link a mother to the networks beyond her home ( Cohen , 1991a ) . |
| 3 | The closely packed neutrons form a degenerate gas and , being fermions , they can also exert a degeneracy pressure . |
| 4 | They can also have a go at this . |
| 5 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 6 | Human readers usually have little difficulty with most types of ambiguity , since they can effortlessly apply a variety of contextual information . |
| 7 | The country can not be properly served by a Government who pretend that they can somehow call a halt to or defer the agreed purpose of the rest of the Community . |
| 8 | Again , these are very dependent on the particular machine , but if used sensibly , and not just as gimmicks , they can completely transform a program . |
| 9 | Of course they can only make a living in this way if they are faster than other dealers in the market . |
| 10 | Never to tell a press man the truth again ( they can only turn a lie into an unplayable one ) |
| 11 | At the end of four weeks , they 're eligible to claim , shall we say , then at the end of that four weeks they can then get a cheque for whatever period they 've been off . |
| 12 | They can then add a Tracker unit , which will monitor the progress of the work , effort and expenditure as the project proceeds . |
| 13 | They dial a special number which faxes flight information to them , they can then book a flight direct — all accomplished , as the publicity handouts say , in three minutes using ‘ phone , fax and finger ’ . |
| 14 | But since then things have changed , and if they are prepared to go to a little trouble and expense they can now acquire a cat that will almost certainly give them no problems . |
| 15 | They can now put a television camera into your stomach . |
| 16 | And of course all that is a play-off against you know keeping that franchisee er involved and keeping them feeling that they can still make a profit . |
| 17 | And the most dangerous players in the world today are those athletic and financially secure ones who calculate risks with the astuteness of a bank manager , but go for the first prize , if possible , and the subsequent contracts , knowing that if the high-flying fairway wood does n't clear a ditch at Augusta , they can still enjoy a steak dinner tonight , thanks to a pitch and single putt ! |
| 18 | They can readily manage a passage like this , shake and all , especially if they are well doubled . |
| 19 | If they can really get a hook into this Eismark , a member of the Secretariat and likely to be there for years , it 'll be quite a coup in its very quiet way . |
| 20 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 21 | But they have n't got it quantified to such a point where they can actually distinguish a tonsillectomy which might have a lot of procedures but actually takes about half a minute with er other things that are , you know , much much more complicated and the cost of tonsillectomies is unreasonably high compared with erm , you know , with |
| 22 | They call this the ‘ coercive hypothesis ’ when both the parent and the child learn that they can occasionally win a battle by shouting louder or hitting harder . |
| 23 | They seem to be a simple , happy-go-lucky folk who are content if they can merely catch a bus or two each day , and find a bit of a gap in the traffic to nip through , and survive till bedtime . |
| 24 | They can hardly design a Mulberry harbour and tented village for Iona which has held out against the ravages of the Atlantic , the Viking , the climate , and the disinterest of the Scot in his religious heritage . |