Example sentences of "they can [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can also create audiences for books which before had only a slight following , and sometimes the making of a film leads to success for the author of the book on which the film was based simply as an author . |
| 2 | Raised beds make attractive garden features , and if you are beginning to find that bending is difficult , they can also make gardening a more practical and pleasurable hobby in the years ahead . |
| 3 | They can also emphasise features which belong exclusively to that one country . |
| 4 | They can also change character : during development cells change from having rather unspecialized characters to mature cells with very specific functions . |
| 5 | Vigorous thumb work produces these nearly perfect ( arithmetically speaking ) examples : A fortnight with B&B accommodation in Alanya in Turkey is offered by Intasun ( 0274 736403 ) at £251pp , though they can also do Alanya self catering at £199 . |
| 6 | 6 They can also impart information about the country or countries concerned . |
| 7 | They can also control speech synthesis software . |
| 8 | They wilt readily learn to distinguish light from dark and there is some evidence that they can also distinguish patterns and colours , although it must be said that this capacity is extremely limited compared with the normal capacities of the animals concerned ( Pasik and Pasik 1982 ) . |
| 9 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 10 | As well as offering some superb honeymoon locations they can also organise weddings in many of their destinations . |
| 11 | People register as unemployed in order to draw unemployment benefit , supplementary benefits or national insurance credits , and to receive information about what jobs are available ; they can also receive help and advice on their job prospects . |
| 12 | But they can also cause havoc to buildings . |
| 13 | They can also cause stress for individuals and their families , said Professor Larry Ramsay . |
| 14 | They can also include questions which ask pupils to put themselves in the place of some person in the past . |
| 15 | They can also catch kinds of prey that they could not catch by themselves , such as buffalo . |
| 16 | There are even now other issues on the pensions debate we have employers like Telecom using pension funds to fund redundancies we now even have the government looking to see if they can get hold of pension fund money in British Rail and in the Coal Board to see if they can also fund job losses . |
| 17 | They can also gain control over their material through the productive learning strategy of dividing it into areas and then seeking to reintegrate them . |
| 18 | They can also develop pressure sores on the elbows and other joints . |
| 19 | They can also run courses or help with internal courses , e.g. : ‘ Members of staff registered to attend courses and they provide tutors/input to locally arranged courses ’ . |
| 20 | They can also buy equipment such as a typewriter or calculator . |
| 21 | ‘ They can also withstand extremes of temperature which may be very useful in the South Atlantic . ’ |
| 22 | She says : They can just run riot , they can enjoy themselves without being told off . |
| 23 | On the other hand , they can clearly indicate differences in ways of doing something . |
| 24 | They can easily become workaholics , name droppers , gossips and braggarts . |
| 25 | The outcome is that fox hunts will need a licence from the Ministry of Agriculture before they can temporarily block setts to prevent foxes hiding in them during a hunt , or to dig out foxes which succeed in entering a sett . |
| 26 | Equally worrying is the fact that deaf people are effectively disenfranchised because they can neither get access to nor take part in the political debate . |
| 27 | And the detectors ' stability means that they can even measure radiation from the faint cloud of dust around the sun which produces the zodiacal light . |
| 28 | Children are swept along by waves of enthusiasm and some teachers are so expert at whipping up energy and commitment that they can even persuade children that a tables test is a great reward for good behaviour . |
| 29 | They can even become elephants or whales . |
| 30 | They learn how they can help one another perform better , what each can contribute to a particular project , how they can best take advantage of one another 's experience . |