Example sentences of "can [vb infin] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeatedly interviewing the same people can sensitise them to the research , and this may have unknown effects on their responses . |
| 2 | Now that I know the genetic formula of my insects , I can reproduce them at will , and I can tell the computer to " evolve " towards them from any arbitrary starting point . |
| 3 | This can insulate them from considering it in more political terms . |
| 4 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 5 | Israeli children eat these pancakes during Hanukkah in December but you can make them at any time of the year . |
| 6 | We have feelers , metal strips , that are one and a half thou thick , we call it , you ca n't have them any thinner because they can make them in Sheffield at one thou thick but they suffer and bend by use . |
| 7 | ‘ If they live , we can transplant them into the garden . |
| 8 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 9 | But though the parts of a complex idea must , in some way , have come from experience , the complexes themselves need not have , for we can construct them from their parts . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , if the court 's powers are to be meaningful , there must come a point at which the court , while not disregarding the child 's wishes , can override them in the child 's own best interests , objectively considered . |
| 11 | Stash old plastic or paper shopping bags near the rubbish or garbage bin and then you can re-cycle them as bin liners . |
| 12 | If exceptions , such as ‘ I promise to tell the truth ’ , occur to us , we can treat them as the exceptions that prove the rule . |
| 13 | Or we can treat them as victims of an insurable risk . |
| 14 | And there 's nothing at all you can cover them with ? |
| 15 | You can congratulate them on getting into the problem so quickly , discuss the flaw , come to a mutual agreement about definitions or regulations , or dictate further instructions as needed . |
| 16 | You can intersperse them between units of archers . |
| 17 | But rules that strengthen banks in good times can cripple them in recessions . |
| 18 | I prefer to have fruit really cos I can eat them with rolls . |
| 19 | The RUC are anxious to speak to the driver of a maroon Maestro car which was close to the murder scene yesterday morning , in order that they can eliminate them from the murder investigation . |
| 20 | Robert Dalrymple says its relationships with most of its tenants are excellent but no one can deliver them from recession . |
| 21 | the colours and everything and the order you want them , but the little figures erm , she buys them and she just paints them , and that 's how she could make er the ones for Shirley er for me , erm she gets little soldiers and she can paint them in the camouflage dress |
| 22 | Deficiencies are there but you can counteract them to your personal advantage . |
| 23 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 24 | they can erm it can affect them in their later life and they hit out at people to show their affection . |
| 25 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 26 | and that means that I can photocopy them for half the price . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't like to tell people , ’ she laughs , ‘ but I can recognise them by their smell . |
| 28 | These five steps are a counsel of perfection , but most surveys can include them to some degree . |
| 29 | If they seem to cause no problems , you can include them in the child 's diet . |
| 30 | Although the list includes characters who could never have met in reality you can include them in the same army if you wish to do so . |