Example sentences of "they can [vb infin] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can decide that America 's problem is the ‘ ghetto poor ’ — the phrase that William Julius Wilson , of the University of Chicago , now prefers to ‘ underclass ’ . |
| 2 | Individuals need not offer to pay for a good that they can consume if others pay for it . |
| 3 | But they also throw up their arms , and say there is nothing they can do except hope that people power will prevail and the self-styled ‘ great redeemer ’ self-destruct . |
| 4 | Women will want a cut that they can cope with , a cut they can dress and re-style easily . ’ |
| 5 | They can protest that voters show little interest in the demographic timebomb , or childcare problems . |
| 6 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |
| 7 | What those industries fear more than anything else is interference by the Government and the European Commission , interference in the choice of products that they can make , interference in the work patterns that they can enjoy and interference in their wage rates . |
| 8 | ‘ No , it is not that , they can see that women are more militant than the men , doing more work on the picket line . |
| 9 | Boat owners are worried that they may be unable to move their vessels freely in EC waters unless they can prove that VAT has been paid . |
| 10 | The two principal isotopes of oxygen , , are chemically very nearly identical , but modest fractionation between them can occur when oxygen is partitioned between phases in which it is bound in very different ways . |