Example sentences of "they can [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , all three activities can adversely affect the environment and if uncontrolled they can result in the destruction of landforms , fauna and flora that first motivated the activity . |
| 2 | The only modification needed to make them operate efficiently in air is some means of keeping their surface clean and smooth , so the amphibians developed the capacity to blink and a membrane that they can draw across the front of the eyeball . |
| 3 | Few can be relied upon for any technical back-up or support services although they can draw upon the services of their manufacturing suppliers for this purpose . |
| 4 | The farmers in the extended LFA are mainly dairy farmers or dairy with sheep , and it may well be that compensatory payments because of LFA designation will be less important than the substantial payments they can attract under the EEC 's existing Sheepmeat Regime . |
| 5 | Released , they rise very slowly ( they can remain in the troposphere , or lower atmosphere , for 100 years ) and intact to the stratosphere . |
| 6 | Sun and Hewlett-Packard remain confident they can beat off the challenge from NT , especially where firms are scrapping their Unix-based mainframes and minicomputers for networks of desktop machines . |
| 7 | A challenge that School Boards are yet to come to terms with fully is how they can contribute to the achievement of the school 's goals . |
| 8 | According to a MORI poll , the majority of people have not grasped the realities of air pollution nor how they can contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases . |
| 9 | And that by all means , take them in in due course , but it 's when they can fit into the economic jigsaw that we 've actually created . |
| 10 | Send an international team which includes former Khmer people , so they can distinguish between the two peoples . ’ |
| 11 | Some people find they can distinguish between the vibration pattern made by people talking , running water , a knock at the door , footsteps , music . |
| 12 | Some people reckon they can sleep on the proverbial clothes line , but most of us need a bed and a comfortable one at that . |
| 13 | ‘ If they wish to have their children privately educated and they feel they ca n't afford it , when the time comes they can talk to the benevolent fund , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 15 | I mean they do n't honestly care two hoots about people , if they can talk about the dreadful state the , the care of old people is in and all the rest of it and that it 's going to get worse , frightening old people . |
| 16 | If they survive their first outing on a ‘ real course ’ and still have the golf bug , they can progress to the 2,294-yard Shey Copse course , a nine-hole mixture of par-3s and medium length par-4s . |
| 17 | " that the highest praise they can bestow on the Masters is merited by them . |
| 18 | ‘ They can pay for the lorries out of that . ’ |
| 19 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 20 | Whether they do depends on how easily they can adapt to the relentless street cred , visual gimmickry and ubiquitous dance rhythms generally essential to the Street-Porter school of programme-making . |
| 21 | They will be monitored to ensure that they can adapt to the local climate . |
| 22 | Furthermore they can move without the constraining presence of the very noticeable uniform and its ‘ big hat ’ . |
| 23 | Thresher also offers in-house and open learning course-based activities to all its managers in order that they can study for the Wine and Spirit Education Trust Higher Certificate , which is a product knowledge-based certificate . |
| 24 | ‘ They do n't realise the speed of the men players or what they can do with the ball . |
| 25 | This is the students ' turn to show what they can do with the new language . |
| 26 | It is hard for parishes to know what exactly they can do for the unemployed . |
| 27 | ‘ They can do without the luxury of eating until we catch that monster , ’ he told Matron . |
| 28 | City councillor John Fetherston , said : ‘ Blacon is already an area of high family stress and residents feel they can do without the addition of a home for children from problem backgrounds . |
| 29 | With 45 goals between them , it is hard to imagine , whatever else may be in his mind , that Jimmy Nicholl wo n't offer his prolific strikers new contracts in the summer and the chance to show what they can do in the top 12 . |
| 30 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |