Example sentences of "their [noun pl] can [verb] their " in BNC.
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1 | Planners in Sweden and India think their countries can meet their energy needs , cut emissions of greenhouse gases and get richer by the end of the century Debora MacKenzie |
2 | Planners in Sweden and India think their countries can meet their energy needs , cut emissions of greenhouse gases — and get richer — by the end of the century |
3 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
4 | Both films seem to ask if their heroes can get their innocence back . |
5 | These implement ANSI/CCITT standards and will enable public network operators and service providers to have end-to-end control of their networks while their customers can control their wide area network resources , even across the public network . |
6 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |