Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this happens the thin walls of the tubes are able to buckle , the helical fibrillae can then straighten themselves out and so the cell is enabled to elongate under the tensile load by something like 20 percent . |
| 2 | Pressed flower shapes can easily lend themselves to stencil designs , as they are already two-dimensional , and are therefore easy to trace . |
| 3 | Men can always fool themselves , that 's what they 're best at . |
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| 5 | Whereas Pope sees this as an inevitable consequence of women 's softness , Leapor believes that women can actually improve themselves . |
| 6 | Bacteria which normally divide and reproduce themselves every twenty minutes can also form themselves into environmentally resistant spores capable of lying dormant , even entombed in rock , for maybe millions of years before a change of circumstance permits their release with continued growth and reproduction . |
| 7 | The same plasmids can also cut themselves out again . |