Example sentences of "[conj] they can do " in BNC.
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| 1 | This targets them towards the most important part of the prey , where they can do most damage with their first contact . |
| 2 | ( A favourite way of disposing of demons is the same trick as is used to deal with miracles : assign them to the New Testament era , where they can do no harm or cause any embarrassment . ) |
| 3 | Of course it is much better to have further yarn masts , as they come in handy for even normal two-colour knitting , where they can do away with the necessity to remove one yarn and re-thread with waste yarn when you need to remove work on waste . |
| 4 | " They asked if they might come to see the palais , but they had of course to remain outside in the gardens with their nurse where they can do no damage . " |
| 5 | He then suggests that the former can either directly create the conditions for the reproduction of the relations of production , presumably by quelling any sign of working class insubordination ( i.e. , a feature of economic practice depends upon political practice ) , or they can do so indirectly , by establishing a situation in which ideological state apparatuses can do their work ( i.e. , in which ideological practice determines economic practice ) . |
| 6 | In both cases there is a basic assumption of health — that they can do it . |
| 7 | The victims are unlikely to believe that they can do much from their own resources if action is dependent on billions of dollars , and the developed nations can hardly man every environmental barricade from Ethiopia to the Amazonian rainforest . |
| 8 | This weekend it is possible to sense a feeling that they can do no more . |
| 9 | The fact that they can do this is perhaps the chief reason why Britain 's constitutional arrangements have stood the test of centuries . |
| 10 | The first , stricter , doctrine of neutrality allows that individuals may act to implement their ideals in their lives , and in the life of their community , but only to the extent that they can do so by non-political means . |
| 11 | Nothing that they can do can alter the fact that they are our responsibility . |
| 12 | Making computers ‘ think ’ ( not necessarily as humans do , but in a logical , inferential way so that they can do more than arithmetic ) is a ‘ grand vision ’ for Edward Feigenbaum , one of the Prometheuses of AI , Feigenbaum is a computer scientist and senior investigator for computer heuristics ( common rules of thumb for thinking ) at Stanford University in California . |
| 13 | So even though we have a lot of tricky stuff to get right soundwise , the crew is so great that they can do it pretty much without us . |
| 14 | With spreadsheet products not always well-differentiated in terms of the basic calculations that they can do , considerations such as the quality of printed output carry some weight when one is choosing from the array of packages on offer . |
| 15 | From Hungary , Russia and Japan come rumours that they can do it too . |
| 16 | ‘ Slide ’ opens the set , all big chords and yeah , slide guitar ; ‘ Smile ’ , with a dangerously narcotic and very BIG bassline that takes control over your entire body , is brain-bruisingly splendid , as is ‘ Hey Sister ’ , the song that proves that they can do fast ones , they can do slow ones and they can then do ones with car-alarm noises in the middle . |
| 17 | They derive their power from being taken for granted , so that they can do their destructive work without themselves being checked for validity or reality . |
| 18 | If that opportunity is denied the search company then they will have significant problems convincing their clients that they can do a good job . |
| 19 | But once again it is to deny that they can do this by virtue of their intrinsic properties as individuals . |
| 20 | The things that make a modern killer PC , such as swift video performance , are irrelevant for network servers — so mundane is their existence that they can do without a screen or a keyboard . |
| 21 | I have known couples choose to have no children and be very happy with their choice ; but the moment they have changed their minds , only to discover finally that one or other of them is infertile , life instantly fills with despair coupled with a single-minded commitment to prove that they can do it . |
| 22 | The Ministry therefore feel that they can do nothing to restrict its spread , and will take no further action . |
| 23 | Third , you have to believe that they can do as well as you . |
| 24 | So that they can do that |
| 25 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 26 | If it is the best that they can do , then their actions are skilful in the sense that they are produced in milliseconds , and that they are spontaneous , automatic , and unrehearsed . |
| 27 | What you 've described must be something that erm that that families of people who are suffering from eating disorders must feel very much , that there 's nothing that they can do to , to help . |
| 28 | Yeah since deregulation the er local authorities have had very little er that they can do apart from subsidise certain services and obviously |
| 29 | on my left said earlier , and wo wo women have a tendency to say yes to everything that they can do , just because they can do it , and they know they can but they tend to heap up far too many obligations , and that causes many carers |
| 30 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |