Example sentences of "can [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an expectation that they can earn their way into the labour market but the labour market does not want them . |
| 2 | If they can coordinate their choices this is the only stable outcome . |
| 3 | It can hinder their proper development . |
| 4 | Such a libretto can then be handed to a composer or arranger of music and a designer so that they can make their contributions to the total production . |
| 5 | One Peruvian veteran recalled that the worst thing about the vampiros is that , because they are such brilliant surgeons , they can make their incisions without even waking the victim . |
| 6 | Elaine explained : ‘ I 've really tried hard not to let Deborah and Jon criticise each other , I think that 's important , some brothers can make their sisters feel awful ! |
| 7 | Most of the living cephalopods also have an ink sac which injects a smoky fluid into the water when the animal is threatened , under cover of which they can make their own jet-propelled escape . |
| 8 | I 'm sure the Delia Copes of this world can make their own boring magazine . |
| 9 | My country is full of distinctions of this kind , and in the congenial climate of Oxford they flourish to form a semantic jungle through which only the natives can make their way . |
| 10 | It 's also a lot harder to be a rhythm player than it is a solo player , because anyone can make their fingers move really fast and play shitty solos . |
| 11 | It 's the noise element which could yet be their finest asset : if baggydom has been polluted by feyness and undermined by limp-wristed disinterest , then there 's a huge gap in which hectic ( but tuneful ) arse-kickers can make their mark . |
| 12 | This is important to individual sites so that they can make their own assessment of the value to them of adopting what has been identified as best practice elsewhere . |
| 13 | They should be based primarily on resource materials , which might include samples of language data ( spoken , written , literary , non-literary , standard , non-standard , English and other languages ) and facts and figures about languages in Britain and around the world , and associated activities which are essentially concrete and problem-based , so that the pupils can make their own enquiries , and so that the teacher can learn alongside the pupils . |
| 14 | They can make their bourgeois war themselves , but they will make it without the workers . ’ |
| 15 | Putting a practical question to them : ‘ So what action should those ideas lead us to take , do you think ? ’ can make their contribution that much more relevant . |
| 16 | 1991 : Recordable CD ( CD-R ) becomes a reality , with demonstrations of a Denon -manufactured system at a September hi-fi show held at a Heathrow hotel pulling huge crowds ; the time when punters can make their own CD compilations looms ever nearer . |
| 17 | Guests can make their own private calls and the metered units will be recorded automatically against their room . |
| 18 | The new limited company will acquire , after formation , all the BMC 's equally limited assets , but before the move is made , any BMC members can make their views known to Derek Walker and his colleagues . |
| 19 | These men tend to be more confident that they can make their desires known to their partners , whereas those who did n't enjoy their introduction to sex are among the most likely to say that they ca n't express what they want . |
| 20 | Project work at the very least can provide that " real context " in which children can see the point of learning skills such as using an index , because these skills can make their work easier . |
| 21 | I do n't think it 's necessarily about teaching er children primarily about sex or about sexual pleasure , I think it 's all , initially , about personal hygiene and then developing that into how they can make their life safer for themself , or giving them choices to say , well I can choose to become pregnant or not to become pregnant and , I think it 's more about choices rather than saying orgasms and erm sexual pleasure , or |
| 22 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |
| 23 | If they can make their animals lie down , they should do so , and lie down with them . |
| 24 | Erm we 've er we you 'll be looking at education , our biggest service , and a service which we should which is going through some very profound changes at the moment where we 're trying to er increase the resources that are within individual schools so that they can make their own decisions erm about er how they best meet the needs of their youngsters . |
| 25 | If that choice is not to the liking of those with voting power , many of whom will be ratepayers , they can make their views evident through the ballot box . |
| 26 | In a new pool they often die because the water has not matured and there is insufficient debris on the pool floor in which they can make their home . |
| 27 | Instead we should be giving people information so they can make their own decisions ’ . |
| 28 | Normally the best way forward is to create a stable environment and to cut corporation tax so that businesses can make their own investment decisions , rather than to distort those investment decisions . |
| 29 | to devise an administrative pattern and way of working in which different disciplines can make their own distinctive contributions to a common area of study ; |
| 30 | Decentralisation refers to three main features of central-local government relationships : the range of services for which local government authorities are responsible ; the degree of discretion that local government authorities have in providing these services and the degree to which local politicians and officials can make their voices heard in policy making at the national level . |