Example sentences of "the [noun pl] can [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply from examining the bones the experts can tell us that she suffered from childhood illness and spent a lot of her life sitting on her heels using her left hand , perhaps grinding corn . |
| 2 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 3 | The shareholders can vote him off the board themselves . |
| 4 | Passing sentence , the judge told Lashley : ‘ You are an appalling and dangerous man , and the real issue is whether the authorities can allow you your liberty in your lifetime ’ . |
| 5 | So erm any er any clarification on the way the districts can use I twi er I twelve and I five as not being necessarily mutually exclusive wou would help . |
| 6 | ‘ I just hope the lads can do it tonight whoever is in goal . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just hope the lads can do it tonight whoever is in goal . ’ |
| 8 | course the kids can punch them about |
| 9 | the kids can ring him tonight |
| 10 | But Walter had , and anyone who has read the books can feel it . ’ |
| 11 | So the concentrations can affect it . |
| 12 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 13 | If this is so , and the missionaries can do it , then why are there so many religious disputes . |
| 14 | For page one three four and T U P E , yes , well we have done quite an extensive document , there 's been a lot done about T U P E in the public sector we 've done it in the government sector and given guidelines , and T U P E , while it is like you rightly say , a step forward , it 's not the total answer we need something better , but it does level out the playing field that the cowboys can find it difficult in and we as a union are advocating to our members where there is a transfer taking place , whether there 's a change to your employment challenge it and we will support that challenge with the necessary legal interpretation if so . |
| 15 | I mean how wh er how the parents can let them |
| 16 | Advocate them only if you are sure that the parents can complete them without loss of temper and possible physical risk to the child . |
| 17 | The use of this term is inaccurate and misleading because the fact is that the recorders are required by the appropriate regulations to be painted a brilliant colour so that the investigators can find them more easily in the wreckage . |
| 18 | ‘ But a meeting has been arranged and hopefully the accountants can clear it up . ’ |
| 19 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 20 | If the Europeans can have it , why ca n't we ? |
| 21 | They have Soviet-made rifles , mortars and rocket-propelled grenades , and they have captured tanks , guns and armoured personnel carriers from the Iraqi army — though how many of these are usable , and how many of the Kurds can drive them , is not clear . |
| 22 | The museums can promise them only one thing an enduring memorial and gratitude for any help given . |
| 23 | Only the blues can hold them back . |
| 24 | Only the blues can hold them back . |
| 25 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 26 | It is to be finished by Friday , so that the girls can decorate it with flowers . |
| 27 | The new head of the Baskerville family will be Sir Henry Baskerville , if he is still alive and if the lawyers can find him . |
| 28 | But not everyone in the gang has Q's options and inclinations , and the hard one , Bishop ( Shakur ) , decides that the best way he and the guys can prove they 've got ‘ the juice ’ is by robbing the corner store . |
| 29 | certainly , and my Lord my problem is I 'd liked to see them before I cross-examine Mr the er , the next witness cos he , he was the the officer in charge of brochures , er I do n't know whether the defendants can get , the plaintiffs can get them before but er , I mention it now , the second application my Lord , er your Lordship recalls that Mr evidence is at a meeting of , he brought up his concerns about the accuracy of the inflation sentence in the brochure and a board meeting in , no board meeting to that effect has been disclosed |
| 30 | An irritated Dutch official said : ‘ If the Danes can do it with a referendum by July , I do not see why the British would need a longer time . ’ |