Example sentences of "their [noun] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , there is no exemption period if the claimant with their policies can prove they were covered during the time of the accident or sickness . |
| 2 | His connections have kept him in training because he showed plenty of ability on the gallops and their decision can pay its first fruits with a win today as he looks a cut above Debsy Do and Nellie Dean . |
| 3 | I think people realise that their faith can overcome their doubts . |
| 4 | Those of the Indus and Ganges dolphins even lack lenses , so that their eyes can tell them little more than the difference between light and darkness , between day and night . |
| 5 | Should they break this code of conduct , their association can strike them from the register and ban them from practising medicine . |
| 6 | The critic is not some simple custodian of these museum texts whose task it is to keep the displays polished so their readers can see them in clear unreflected light . |
| 7 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 8 | Most of the children coming into care under section 2 of the Child Care Act do so at the request of their parents , and their parents can take them home whenever they wish . |
| 9 | Planners in Sweden and India think their countries can meet their energy needs , cut emissions of greenhouse gases and get richer by the end of the century Debora MacKenzie |
| 10 | Planners in Sweden and India think their countries can meet their energy needs , cut emissions of greenhouse gases — and get richer — by the end of the century |
| 11 | New skills can increase personal satisfaction Women in particular are susceptible to believing that improving their appearance can help them reinvent themselves . |
| 12 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 13 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 14 | Both films seem to ask if their heroes can get their innocence back . |
| 15 | These implement ANSI/CCITT standards and will enable public network operators and service providers to have end-to-end control of their networks while their customers can control their wide area network resources , even across the public network . |
| 16 | I say their contemplation can give no-one pleasure ; they are there because their absence would be resented by the average man who regards a large amount of futile display as in some way inseparable from the conditions of that well-to-do life to which he belongs or aspires to belong . |
| 17 | During that ten second or less dash for the line they will actually be using up oxygen faster than their bodies can take it in . |
| 18 | Primary nurses will frequently have to ‘ negotiate ’ and act as a ‘ disturbance handler ’ when problems arise , but their thorough knowledge of their patients can give them the confidence to do this . |
| 19 | The delusion is that their means can achieve their ends . |
| 20 | Work like the Peplos kore ( fig. 39 ) , Exekias 's neck-amphora ( fig. 55 ) or the Vix krater ( fig. 58 ) show archaic Greek art in its assured prime : craftsmen who are masters of their craft can develop their styles and express what they want happily within the general limitations of inherited convention . |
| 21 | Understanding individuals in the context of their past can help us understand the present-day person . |
| 22 | Such simple lovers are not so simple and their love can lead them to one of the profoundest insights of religion , for such love requires an abandonment of selfishness and egotism , and these people are far advanced on the spiritual roads . |
| 23 | Parasites , too , do n't have to live inside their hosts ; their genes can express themselves in hosts at a distance . |
| 24 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 25 | All animals have three-dimensional bodies and their solidity can give them away . |
| 26 | The remains of houses and possessions give an idea of people 's lifestyle , while the remains of their tools can show what work they did , and to some extent how hard they would have had to work to do a particular job . |