Example sentences of "they can [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often quite surprising to discover just how aware children are of their own needs and how they can frequently articulate the type of resource they need . |
| 2 | With respect to the second of these jobs , terms like ‘ subversion ’ often have such elastic definitions that , again , they can frequently provide the pretext for the surveillance of legitimate political activity . |
| 3 | They can also convey an intimacy in providing gentle , ‘ finger-picking ’ backing for soft or solo singing and playing , inducing a mood of vulnerability or timelessness . |
| 4 | Some doctors recommend immediate intervention with steroid injections , but although these can have a dramatic effect in reducing inflammation and relieving pain , they can also create a false sense of security . |
| 5 | They can issue an Enforcement Notice to cease an unauthorised use or remove an offending development and in the latter case , once the Enforcement Notice has been issued they can also make a Stop Notice which requires all work to cease in a short period , often seven days , until the Enforcement Notice is confirmed or quashed . |
| 6 | They can also perform a limited corporate finance function , and provide a mechanism for marketing shares in an unquoted company ( Newco ) , where otherwise the benefit to an employee of holding shares is somewhat illusory , in that he can not realise his shares for cash , unless he remains a shareholder of the company and ( usually ) an employee or director , until there is a sale of Newco or it obtains a listing . |
| 7 | True , the curia regis , de Banco and other rolls contain mainly names of notable , even famous , families , but they can also record the names of more ordinary folk : 1261 , ‘ Thomas Piket and his wife Cristina versus Ralph le Bret and William his son , and Richard de Langlay in a plea that they cut down trees ’ ; 1262 , ‘ Akyma who was wife of William de Reyney versus William de Bekeford for ⅓ of the moiety of the advowson of the church ’ ; 1318 , ‘ The sheriff to have here William de Bradewas , Matilda Bret , Henry de Knyghteton , Walter de Pyneford , John Keneman , John Weryng , Richard North , Thomas Tredy , and Henry Gledy to show by what right … ‘ , and so on . |
| 8 | Because catalogues are typically run by someone the mother knows , they can also link a mother to the networks beyond her home ( Cohen , 1991a ) . |
| 9 | They can also avoid the rush down to the beach to secure an umbrella . |
| 10 | They can also manage the dense drive of The Jam , but are more flexible . |
| 11 | The closely packed neutrons form a degenerate gas and , being fermions , they can also exert a degeneracy pressure . |
| 12 | All these things prevent the body 's energy flowing smoothly , and those energy ‘ road-blocks ’ are not only the result of stress — they can also compound the problem . |
| 13 | The governors have power and responsibility , with just a little encouragement they can also become a most enthusiastic supporters club . |
| 14 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 15 | They can also have a go at this . |
| 16 | They release the teacher for other work by giving the pupil something which he can operate himself without having to have the teacher there ; and they can also enliven the teaching of otherwise difficult topics . |
| 17 | They can also use the medium to explore character or linguistic or structural features of texts . |
| 18 | They can also use the electronic mail facility , exchange files and join a range of interactive discussions and conferences . |
| 19 | I 'm not being unkind , I 'm sure they can also see the funny side of it . ’ |
| 20 | Amoebae not only provide an important reservoir of intracellular legionellae , increasing uptake of the bacteria in adverse conditions ; warm water systems they can also provide a continuous supply of extracellular bacteria . |
| 21 | Internal administrative routines and power relationships affect local policy processes by modifying and mediating external influences , and they can also provide an independent dynamic of their own . |
| 22 | They can also provide the spontaneous formation of gradients . |
| 23 | They can also provide the best care for animals . |
| 24 | They can help you with your training needs your child care and your travel and they can also provide the support you need if you 're not confident about going back to learning . |
| 25 | The advantages of speciality databases include customised data entry and searching , but they can also save an enormous amount of your time setting up an industry standard database . |
| 26 | They can also produce a loud hissing , screeching noise . |
| 27 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 28 | Now they can either award the deal to the lowest bidder or negotiate some kind of split . |
| 29 | They can either discharge the case , or refer it to the Sheriff for Proof . |
| 30 | They can either follow the path of instrumental reason or they can recover their true character as a modern polis , a site of developing communicative reason . |