Example sentences of "they can [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an earlier film directed by Tim Burton , Beetlejuice ( 1988 ) , there are recurrent cuts between the model village built by the Maitlands ( Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis ) in their attic and full-size sets of parts of the model when it is inhabited by the eccentric spirit Betelgeuse ( Michael Keaton ) and at times by the Maitlands too — being ghosts , they can change size rather easily , if involuntarily . |
| 2 | A widespread myth among personal , personnel managers is that they can change terms and conditions by simply giving notice of intent . |
| 3 | all the de you know , because they 've got the describers , whoever is in charge of the describers knows when they can spare people , oh no I ca n't do that week because we 've |
| 4 | It 's understandable that they can admire academics , but that 's not quite the same as loving them for the person they are . ’ |
| 5 | MANCHESTER UNITED are still confident they can land David Hirst . |
| 6 | In extreme cases they can suffer brain damage or die . |
| 7 | They can suffer depression and grief and the feeling that they need someone to talk to even though the rest of the world feels they should have got over it . ’ |
| 8 | What they are , how they can affect people , and why ? |
| 9 | This quality of inclusion signifies the sense of the collective that women have , and from which they can draw strength in their lives . |
| 10 | From here they can be drawn up in two ranks , both of which can fire , and they can draw line of sight to almost any place on the field . |
| 11 | they can draw pictures to illustrate part of a story they have listened to . |
| 12 | If they can prevent frustration with the crotchety old Ghost from driving them to violence , they could obtain some very useful information from him . |
| 13 | There are countless other examples but the above should serve to alert nurses so that they can prevent patients ' problems in this area . |
| 14 | The rationale of virtual-memory systems is that they can allocate memory on the basis of the actually observed demands for storage rather than on the potential , or worst case estimates , for the execution of a program . |
| 15 | Many students do not realise that they can negotiate alterations to assignment deadlines if they run into difficulties . |
| 16 | This , therefore , I can not but earnestly repeat , — Break their wills betimes ; begin this great work before they can run alone before they can speak plain , or perhaps speak at all . |
| 17 | There are a couple of French soldiers following us , but fortunately I do n't think they can speak German . ’ |
| 18 | They can place children in homes run by voluntary organizations and make contributions to their costs , and they have certain powers to inspect voluntary homes . |
| 19 | Swindon Town will be at home to Manchester City or Reading in the Fourth Round if they can beat Queens Park Rangers in the Third Round … that tie kicks off in an hours time in London … |
| 20 | But they win not because they can play chess , which they can not , but because they can beat humans . |
| 21 | Dr Lesley Hawkins , Director of Services at Surrey University 's Occupational Health Department , has tested ionisers and believes that they can help to relieve asthma and allergies , but there 's no evidence that they can cure diseases such as arthritis and rheumatism . |
| 22 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 23 | They can soak women with firehoses and bash curlytops with truncheons . |
| 24 | Tivoli has also built a toolkit for non-programmers called the Application Extension Facility ( AEF ) so they can customise Tivoli applications and migrate existing systems management programmes to a standard . |
| 25 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 26 | Men have a greater daily calorie requirement than women , so they can shed weight on more generous slimming diets and generally record considerably larger weekly weight losses . |
| 27 | They can form alliances to contain him — buttressed , perhaps , by a residual force of Americans . |
| 28 | Consideration of these areas and how they can inform classroom practice should begin in initial training . |
| 29 | They will apply to fourth and fifth-formers , aimed at providing the pupils with more choice and flexibility during the last two years before they can leave school . |
| 30 | I mean , we do make all sorts of allowances with exams you know , people repeat words and th and they can leave words out and they ca n't think of a eloquent way of expressing that something at the spur of the moment so it 's |