Example sentences of "they can [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most writings seem to agree that leadership vision , or ‘ visioning ’ , as the process has sometimes been called , can be broken down into three distinct stages : ( 1 ) the envisioning of ‘ an image of a desired future organizational state ’ ( Bass , 1987 : 51 ) which ( 2 ) when effectively articulated and communicated to followers ( Bennis and Nanus , 1985 ; Tichy and Devanna , 1986 ; Gluck , 1984 ) serves ( 3 ) to empower those followers so that they can enact the vision ( Sashkin , 1987 ; Srivastva , 1983 ; Conger and Kanungo , 1987 ; Robbins and Duncan , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | Such visions may have a sadness ingrained in them , for they can contain the knowledge of ends as well as beginnings . |
| 3 | What comes across , to us , is that workers , on the whole , do not feel they can change the principal features of their world of work … |
| 4 | They go in to have a laugh and they come out feeling they can change the world . ’ |
| 5 | They go in to have a laugh and they come out feeling they can change the world ’ |
| 6 | The attention of individual members can be drawn to small , practical ways in which they can change the dynamic processes within the family . |
| 7 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 8 | The participants will provide advanced adaptive lighting of complex interiors with support for dynamic lighting and environmental modelling , so that designers and customers can enter a realistic virtual building where they can change the placement and intensity of light fittings and even modify the environment . |
| 9 | Alright , so where farmers are locked into a specific rotation , and rotations are quite generally used , alright , they may not be able to erm , change their output erm , until they can change the rotation . |
| 10 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary , and now they can be wholly in charge of this — they can change the layout of it as much as the words within it ; they can ask colleagues to come in and comment and even add a little bit . |
| 11 | They can change the layout of it as much as the words within it . |
| 12 | Alex and Fred could ( if they can spare the time ) advise the CPL staff on assessing each potential adoptee on their merit regardless of where they live . |
| 13 | If the complainant remains unhappy about the conclusion , the file must be referred to the Investigation Committee , since in these circumstances only they can conclude the investigation . |
| 14 | They may , and often do , leave it to the debtors to see if they can procure the additional security . |
| 15 | A frequent complaint from companies using distributors is that , because they are independent businesses acting independently , they can decide the final selling price to the customer . |
| 16 | If this is the way they want to treat Nigel , they can suffer the consequences . |
| 17 | One secondary sense of neutrality regards persons as neutral if they can affect the fortunes of the parties and if they affect the fortunes of all the parties equally regardless of their reasons for so doing . |
| 18 | These may not result in typical Doitsu scalation but they can affect the body shape . |
| 19 | ‘ In mature areas they can affect the fiscal terms under which we operate . |
| 20 | Scientists believe that it will be several years before they can confirm the existence of the greenhouse effect . |
| 21 | If the worms start to move into their burrows when disturbed , do not try to pull them back out as they can grip the sides of the burrow very strongly . |
| 22 | In view of what you , Mr. Speaker , have had to say about the Consolidated Fund Bill , can you give some assurance that , if this matter about Maxwell and him laundering money is raised , you will ensure that people such as Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield will be given special tickets to sit in the Gallery so that they can hear the debate and so that they can draw the attention of various channels to the fact that perhaps Mr. Lightman should investigate the missing Maxwell millions , and perhaps we can find out whether Roger Windsor , Mr. Maxwell 's nark , was paid £50,000 out of the Daily Mirror 's missing millions . |
| 23 | And that video can be obtained from Tavistock Church , in Tavistock Place it costs twelve pound fifty , with one pound fifty postage erm , but I think that it has been recommended to us and a number of the provinces have asked for copies to be made available and then maybe there are some churches within our provence that might like to have that video so that they can draw the attention of their churches to the work of the Council for World Mission . |
| 24 | The poor die young — before they can contract the chronic diseases that dearly cost national health schemes . |
| 25 | They think they can rule the world , well , to be fair , they probably could , only it 's as well if you do n't let them know it . |
| 26 | Regrettably , too many inadequately trained , ignorant and uncaring managers in too many workplaces believe they can beat the cost of unsafe practices and systems and take a chance on the consequences . |
| 27 | The doctor and the engineer were but the latest to follow the folly and beggary route , the minority which every generation throws up thinking they can beat the system . |
| 28 | Hence , they can minimise the likelihood of blatant injustice . |
| 29 | Now they think they can cure the defective gene in the lungs . |
| 30 | ‘ These are the original brakes and they can lock the wheels at full speed , ’ says Mr Tomlinson . |