Example sentences of "but they can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I have n't yet visited the archivist department , but they can expect me , |
| 2 | They ca n't make a decision to change but they can give you the information that we need to bring forward . |
| 3 | It is stuffed up on rising but they can clear it out . |
| 4 | But they can settle it in their own time . ’ |
| 5 | But they can beat me to it every time . |
| 6 | yeah , there 's one good there but , erm what they do , is they do it in concrete you know , but they can make it look like bricks |
| 7 | So , as far as the , the erm , erm , report is concerned er , if I 've got to make a recommendation , because obviously people have got different views on this one , it would be in fact that we go for total er , information so that people can make up their own minds , and if , and it might be wrong , but they can exercise their own prejudices . |
| 8 | All of these observations of correlations between ERPs and different kinds of behaviour , including phenomenological reports , may tell us something about mental representations and the cognitive processes generating them , but they can tell us nothing about whether these representations and processes are conscious or unconscious . |
| 9 | I mean all the papers wo n't be through but they can tell us whether it 's |
| 10 | In other words , you could ride into the ring with a home-made hard hat that would have to be accepted if it had a ‘ harness secured to the shell at more than two points ’ , but they can pull you up for wearing black jodhs ! |
| 11 | The object of the game is to see who can shake it off in the shortest time without using their hands , but they can move their head in any direction they wish . |
| 12 | but they can sell it to shops , a crate of it to shops cheaper than than they can sell it so that means |
| 13 | There in the darkness , the chicks can see very little of their parents , but they can hear them and they will follow the sound that they first hear during that crucial imprinting period for the rest of their duckling days . |
| 14 | The idea of the tour is so that they can actually er listen to it , but they can turn it off whenever they want and they can use their guide book to see what is in each room and if you look at the guidebook as we go round , you will find that that the things are illustrated , you know the pot . |
| 15 | themselves and cut themselves and for , for Allah and whatnot hit and he had two policemen , now if they had , they 're , they 're not allowed to stop you and ask for your identification unless they have policeman with them , but they can arrest you and take you to their police station and they can be quite intimidating and , but they were going round , there was American service in there who have little cards written on it , they said they do n't have to cover their heads they , they 're allowed to do just as well as they please |
| 16 | Old , compressed cultures such as this can be notably cohesive and resilient , but they can find it increasingly difficult to adapt to radical , as distinct from incremental , changes . |
| 17 | A car producer and a food manufacturer can not merge to gain economies of scale in production or any direct reduction in costs ; but they can use their joint financial resources to start a price war in one of these industries . |
| 18 | But they can use it to hurt people too . ’ |
| 19 | We do n't want a middle-aged audience , but they can see there are elements of Jefferson Airplane and stuff like that in what we do . ’ |
| 20 | But they can take it off the wall . |