Example sentences of "they can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means assessing their likes and dislikes by means of preference tests where they can simply choose between different options , or ‘ operant conditioning ’ tests where they have to perform some task such as pecking a button to get access to ( or to exit from ) a particular environment . |
| 2 | It is often quite surprising to discover just how aware children are of their own needs and how they can frequently articulate the type of resource they need . |
| 3 | With respect to the second of these jobs , terms like ‘ subversion ’ often have such elastic definitions that , again , they can frequently provide the pretext for the surveillance of legitimate political activity . |
| 4 | It will be good , it will be an achievement , they must learn to live together , they 've got to , and they can , they can already , they 're both so wonderful and so intelligent and they like and respect each other very much , that 's absolutely clear . |
| 5 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 6 | I 'm not being unkind , I 'm sure they can also see the funny side of it . ’ |
| 7 | Usually these situations arise from running out of height on the circuit , but they can also arise from arriving back far too high and by badly planned manoeuvring in an attempt to correct that kind of position . |
| 8 | They can also advise you about bottle feeding your baby if this is what you prefer . |
| 9 | You see , when you are working in plan like this it is difficult to bear in mind that machine table heights can work in your favour and they can also work against you . |
| 10 | They can also emphasise features which belong exclusively to that one country . |
| 11 | They can also develop pressure sores on the elbows and other joints . |
| 12 | They can also climb , hence their success at moving round and between gardens in their quest for food . |
| 13 | Some doctors recommend immediate intervention with steroid injections , but although these can have a dramatic effect in reducing inflammation and relieving pain , they can also create a false sense of security . |
| 14 | All these things prevent the body 's energy flowing smoothly , and those energy ‘ road-blocks ’ are not only the result of stress — they can also compound the problem . |
| 15 | Vigorous thumb work produces these nearly perfect ( arithmetically speaking ) examples : A fortnight with B&B accommodation in Alanya in Turkey is offered by Intasun ( 0274 736403 ) at £251pp , though they can also do Alanya self catering at £199 . |
| 16 | They can also store more oxygen . |
| 17 | They can also carry on getting credit through a special ‘ debtor-in-possession ’ facility : when Campeau , a highly leveraged Canadian-owned retailer , filed for chapter 11 last year it quickly got $700m of credit , which kept its Federated and Allied stores open for business . |
| 18 | They can also be extremely awkward , never more so than when loaded with the needle-tips of a yucca or the sharks teeth of an agave . |
| 19 | They can also tell us the correct name of a city . |
| 20 | They can also try out a wide range of software and printers . |
| 21 | They can also control speech synthesis software . |
| 22 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 23 | Bacteria are very clever : not only do they practise breast-stroke , but they can also ‘ order up genetic information from other cells , with the same ease that human beings order take out pizza ’ . |
| 24 | Coated with a conductor , they can also be used as electrical connectors , enabling about 100 to be packed into a ½ in plug . |
| 25 | His professional engineering career started on the truck side , and he sees his task mainly as miniaturisation to bring all the advantages of power and economy enjoyed by the heavy goods diesel driver down to the size where they can also be of benefit to the motorist . |
| 26 | They can also be made from nitriles as shown in equation ( b ) . |
| 27 | They can also be divided crossways into three regions , a well-defined head ( cephalon ) at the front , usually equipped with a pair of eyes , a thorax with a variable number of articulated segments , and at the back end a tail ( or pygidium ) formed by the fusion of several segments . |
| 28 | They can also tell you about worthwhile sightseeing and give you full details of excursions . |
| 29 | The governors have power and responsibility , with just a little encouragement they can also become a most enthusiastic supporters club . |
| 30 | They can also discriminate appropriately when the stimulus signals food in one context and extinction in the other , a result amply confirmed in experiments by Bouton and Swartzentruber ( 1986 ) . |