Example sentences of "they can [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , those who learn all they can about loss , grief and change and apply that knowledge to themselves are the ones who eventually emerge as stronger and more compassionate people . |
| 2 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 3 | They can of course call themselves Slavophils , but that is to try and wish away Peter , to perform an act of mental regression , not to be a Russian . |
| 4 | They can of course pray for them , and to give that prayer high priority . |
| 5 | ( They can of course be conclusively falsified . ) |
| 6 | Both panic and greed act as fast as they can via telephone or telex . |
| 7 | On the wards , day to day care means preparing patients as well as they can for surgery and beyond . |
| 8 | On the other hand , used aright , it can help very much in the understanding of mathematical operations , because far more many and widespread examples can be dealt with very quickly , and they can for example erm get a feel of the result of multiplying or dividing or whatever it , it is , numbers of quite different sizes . |
| 9 | Oh they can in America and the green ones no there 's all white there 's all white and yellow . |
| 10 | And some management procedures can not work very well in M and E as they can in civils . |
| 11 | It is , indeed , an implication of attitudinism that induction and abduction can not be invoked in support of ethical statements as they can in support of factual ones . |
| 12 | I think all the staff ought to be able to rely ( as they can in colleges of FE ) on this full-time professional service , particularly where there are nearly 1500 customers and 80 members of staff . |
| 13 | Council leaders want to bestow the highest honour they can in recognition of Clough 's achievements with Nottingham Forest . |
| 14 | ‘ Common mistakes are to feel they 've got to live near a beach , when they can in fact drive visitors there from many other areas in half an hour , ’ says Jonathan . |
| 15 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
| 16 | Although these sorts of depreciatory arrangements can not be used to create allowable losses in the hands of the vendor company ( s 176 TCGA ) , they can within limits be used to reduce the vendor 's chargeable gain without the vendor 's having to realise the assets and business which may have a very low historical value . |