Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 2 | Your local health authority will be able to give you advice on local services or your doctor can advise you . |
| 3 | Fish are not capable of establishing a relationship with their owner in the same way as dogs and cats , but I 'm convinced that my Koi can distinguish me from other people approaching the pond . |
| 4 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 5 | I think people realise that their faith can overcome their doubts . |
| 6 | Those of the Indus and Ganges dolphins even lack lenses , so that their eyes can tell them little more than the difference between light and darkness , between day and night . |
| 7 | The delusion is that their means can achieve their ends . |
| 8 | During that ten second or less dash for the line they will actually be using up oxygen faster than their bodies can take it in . |
| 9 | As the world 's longest-running film festival , we hope that our event can fulfil its role in Scotland and internationally in a city that film-makers and audiences from across the world want to visit . |
| 10 | A clause similar to the following should be included : In order for our investors to proceed with their due diligence , we would ask for your consent to the following : ( a ) that senior management within the [ Group ] can be made aware of the proposed management buy-out and that we can be allowed to provide information to the investors and their advisers , subject to satisfactory letters of confidentiality on both sides ; ( b ) that the investor can instruct [ investigating accountants ] to commence work on producing an accountant 's report on the [ Group ] ; ( c ) that [ investigating accountants ] can contact [ existing auditors ] to obtain historical financial information in respect of the [ Group ] and shall be entitled to have access to the existing auditors ' working papers ; ( d ) that our advisers can contact you in order to progress this transaction . |
| 11 | ‘ But there 's no question that our nation can afford its fair share of an international effort . |
| 12 | We usually assume that our minds can tell us a lot about what things are really like , but this is an idea which Proust , like Bergson , I may say , erm rather firmly rejects . |
| 13 | So I 've been in touch with Brian again erm and I said , ca n't you make sure that your blokes can do it in a day . |
| 14 | So for that to happen for that food to be converted into a form that your body can use it 's got to be broken down . |
| 15 | ‘ You must be good at listening and observing ; good at oral and written presentation of complex tax problems so that your client can understand them , and you have to know your accounting and you need a high level of commercial awareness . ’ |
| 16 | So do n't lie , if you 're having a bad month , or you 're having a bad week or you have n't had any sales , put it in the computer , because that 's going to be identified , it comes up on here , so that your manager can help you . |
| 17 | Used to knock the ball high so your team-made can smash it . |
| 18 | STRENGTH — so your body can exert its maximum force |
| 19 | Back carrier once your baby can support his head and neck |
| 20 | A four-wheel-drive vehicle will be an essential , of course , and my husband can leave his car at the top on the main road when snow is forecast . |
| 21 | His connections have kept him in training because he showed plenty of ability on the gallops and their decision can pay its first fruits with a win today as he looks a cut above Debsy Do and Nellie Dean . |
| 22 | Most of the children coming into care under section 2 of the Child Care Act do so at the request of their parents , and their parents can take them home whenever they wish . |
| 23 | Such simple lovers are not so simple and their love can lead them to one of the profoundest insights of religion , for such love requires an abandonment of selfishness and egotism , and these people are far advanced on the spiritual roads . |
| 24 | All animals have three-dimensional bodies and their solidity can give them away . |
| 25 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 26 | Both films seem to ask if their heroes can get their innocence back . |
| 27 | By entering the Archbishop 's service you will have the advantage of being nearer Munich , which you can reach in eighteen hours , where we can hear about everything … and whence Herr Weber and his daughter can visit us and even stay with us . |
| 28 | — the way in which he and his colleagues can assist us on an individual basis . |
| 29 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ The firm will continue to operate in its traditional successful style and our employees can consider their jobs to be as secure as any can be in the building industry at the present time . |