Example sentences of "they can [verb] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | People still think the greatest compliment they can pay you is to say that you look younger than your age . |
| 2 | If they are , the best way they can show it is to do something decisive about their economy . |
| 3 | ‘ The only things they can offer you is things like making grass grow on colliery spoil heaps or being a world expert on how a locust eats grass , ’ says Peter . |
| 4 | They can tell who is at home and who is out at work . |
| 5 | As we feel it is most important that our pupils should benefit from the best teaching materials available , it is our policy to ensure that teachers have at their disposal a wide range of supplementary materials from which they can select what is appropriate for each set . |
| 6 | What the East Germans are finding , however , now that they can read what is written , is that friends and neighbours often freely volunteered to inform , often with lies . |
| 7 | this is where they can claim it is n't it you know . |
| 8 | And if your child is dyslexic , reassure them that they are not the only child , there are other children who share this problem , that they in fact are not stupid , or mad — and quite often they think they are mad , they can understand what is wrong with them because they do n't really understand what they 're supposed to be doing . |
| 9 | The foster parents remain unconcerned as their own eggs or nestlings follow each other to the ground , even when they can see what is going on . |
| 10 | Sale of the eggs is their only source of income , and they are confident they can prove there is no risk to public health . |
| 11 | If they can prove it is there , we might pay for it , ’ |