Example sentences of "the [adj] can [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The British can do what they like . |
| 2 | Only the French can claim anything like a faintly reasonable return when our champions meet the best of the rest . |
| 3 | No doubt the Japanese can justify their prices , but as much as I like their sports cars , I would never consider buying any of their cars in the UK . |
| 4 | Only present-day interest in a spirituality for all the baptized can force us to ask questions about them . |
| 5 | J K Galbraith calls this the culture of content , in which the comfortable can kid themselves that they owe nothing of their comfort to the state , to politics , or the exploitation of others . |
| 6 | Oxfam has launched its new autumn collection of clothes with the boast that the fashion-conscious can dress themselves for just twenty five pounds ! |
| 7 | Just as cricket buffs can remember who scored how many runs on this or that ground in a particular season decades ago , so too the Hawaiian can recall who surfed which wave when , where and how . |
| 8 | Once this is done the two can revert to their traditional roles , the writer supplying the copy and the art director suggesting how the visual can help it sell . |
| 9 | In order to deal with the problem of an assembler of a finished product , s1(2) allows the consumer to treat any party in the chain of distribution as the producer , unless the latter can identify his supplier . |
| 10 | delivered from a maternity hospital so the newborn can have something to look forward to in , in |
| 11 | A disabled person 's employment register is kept at local offices of the division , and the disabled can register themselves and obtain the special attention of the disablement resettlement officer ( DRO ) . |
| 12 | Those retiring during the 1990s can count themselves lucky . |
| 13 | But the Irish can work it , so why not others ? |
| 14 | X/Open , which has been in negotiations with OSF for over a year now , was supposed to have incorporated DCE into its Common Applications Environment some time ago : that announcement is also on ice until the two can work something out . |
| 15 | … that men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved , and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked ; they are , on the contrary , creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness . |