Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than try to impose large structures on what is happening from the outset , they begin at the most local level , trying to see how participants in interaction handle conversation : how they judge who can speak , and when . |
| 2 | But they say they can do nothing . |
| 3 | My friends are Liverpool fans and they say they can get me tickets for the KOP , but no way am I standing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 4 | ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands . |
| 5 | They say you can twist statistics to back up any viewpoint , but you can not argue with that record . |
| 6 | I have heard of a café near the Opera , where , if you sit long enough , they say you can see the whole world go by . |
| 7 | They figure they can get a thousand out over three years . |
| 8 | ‘ If people do not like what they read they can put the letter in the bin . |
| 9 | As they propagate they can change — mutate . |
| 10 | They know they can rely on me , you see . |
| 11 | they know they can say what they want up there and get away with it |
| 12 | For many people there is a temptation to sift through the urgent and important in-trays again looking for the work which they know they can deal with quickly and easily . |
| 13 | Children are very quick to spot this and will take advantage of the situation — and once they know they can get away with anything , you will lose their respect . |
| 14 | If they know they can get special deals . |
| 15 | One of the reasons why they 're having such a hard time with trying to privatise the Health Service is because the British public actually feel they own it , they feel a part of it , they feel it 's theirs , they know where the hospitals are , they know they can get treatment and they do n't abuse it . |
| 16 | If they find the stimulus too strong they know they can reduce it . |
| 17 | ‘ This is because , from the public 's point of view , if a company they are thinking of employing by Safe-Buy UK , they know they can proceed with a home improvement with extra reassurance and avoid things going badly or expensively wrong . |
| 18 | They can do what they believe they can do but they sure as hell can not do what their manager believes they can not do . |
| 19 | ‘ When you have what is effectively a one party Government for 13 years working hand in hand with the developers they believe they can do whatever they like . |
| 20 | The insistence by scientists that the World is merely a series of chance collisions of indifferent forces of nature is to him a dangerous road , since they believe they can discover and harness those indifferent forces through determining Nature 's ‘ laws ’ . |
| 21 | The er work which has preceded at er British Aerospace in the the cockpit , to bring together all the information , displays and controls erm has been tested on er a team of eighteen pilots from , drawn from the four nations , to see whether they believe they can cope with that sort of pilot work load in in simulated operations and they 're content that this kind of cockpit is ideally suited for the task and they can cope . |
| 22 | MAGISTRATES are to be given wide powers to fine criminals according to what they believe they can afford . |
| 23 | They do this when they believe they can operate more profitably and with greater stability than could be achieved by reliance on the workings of imperfect international markets ( Buckley and Casson , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | It 's very important they feel they can do something themselves as well . |
| 25 | This emphasis upon the need for cultural and social reinforcement , though often overlooked by educationalists , is crucially important if the learning process is to be useful and related to the experience of the community groups so that they feel they can go on to employ practical applications of their learning . |
| 26 | And if their own experiences are dealt with , ‘ they feel they can offer something to their children ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ They feel they can distinguish themselves with greater transparency between PS/2s , AS/400s and mainframes , with less translation and overhead . |
| 28 | In this situation , age-regression under hypnosis can be of immense value , allowing patients to free-float back under their own control to any past relevant events with which they feel they can cope , but not forcing the issue in any way . |
| 29 | He/she may well select someone whom they feel they can get on with . |
| 30 | Nobody in industry has actually got an absolute guarantee , I mean even the British Telecom schemes said they 'll pay , they 'll pay the rate of inflation if they feel they can afford . |