Example sentences of "[det] can they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah what c what more can they do ? |
| 2 | Still less can they accept impartial public broadcasting combined with a biased press and biased satellite television . |
| 3 | Neither can they measure the stimulus the railways provided to the growth and maturation of the professions — law , engineering , accounting , surveying — all of whose services were in demand by the railway companies . |
| 4 | Listen to the words of Abraham to the rich man who died ‘ between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you can not ; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence . ’ |
| 5 | The persons being processed into the speaker 's frame of reference may in so doing lose contact with their own , so that they can not relate their new knowledge to their life situation ; neither can they communicate it to others . |
| 6 | Proprietors need skilled , helpful staff and ca n't afford to rely on casual labour , but neither can they afford idle hands in slack periods . |
| 7 | If it elects not to prepare group accounts , the exemption under para 8(c) would seem not to apply and as each UK company is not entitled to the small company exemption in its own right , neither can they claim the exemption under para 8(a) . |