Example sentences of "they can [conj] do " in BNC.

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1 However , in emphasising their dependence it is only too easy to diminish what they can and do contribute .
2 What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate .
3 In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to .
4 The better off may use some private systems from time-to-time but they are still supported by a network of public systems they can and do fall back on .
5 Far dimmer and simpler than ours , but they certainly exist , and it is now recognised that they can and do suffer from stress .
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