Example sentences of "they ca [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hairshafts are totally dead , so cutting them ca n't send messages to the hair roots . |
| 2 | How often Mother used to say ‘ They ca n't leave Swindon under ten minutes , no matter how late we are ’ . |
| 3 | Of course , this is something that private schools already do , but it is interesting that , even in the public sector , some ‘ magnet ’ schools , upset by their relatively poor performance in examination results , are asking if they ca n't exclude children who come to them on placing requests from deprived areas . |
| 4 | ‘ Give those out and pray that even if they ca n't speak English they can at least read it ! ’ |
| 5 | They ca n't speak German anyway . ’ |
| 6 | The reason why people sometimes think they ca n't shed weight on a strict calorie ration of 1,000 daily is that they are guessing at the weight — and thus the calorie content — of their portions of food , or forgetting to add in the calories provided by little items like the butter spread on that bread , or the milk in all those cups of tea ; or they fail to realize that innocent-looking things like that canned soft drink or glass of orange juice , or the mayonnaise coleslaw served in the office canteen ( 'Ca n't contain many calories — it 's salad , is n't it ! ' ) can add a sizeable number of calories to the daily total . |
| 7 | Those referred to at the beginning of this chapter , the dieters who think they ca n't shed weight on 1,000 calories a day , almost invariably belong to the can't-get-away-with-anything group and are not following the essential rules of calorie counting sufficiently strictly . |
| 8 | They ca n't go Tuesday . |
| 9 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 10 | They ca n't stand Patten any more . |
| 11 | the window size or the kitchen size or the bathroom size , they ca n't price things out until such times as they 've sat down face to face with client . |
| 12 | T T S they ca n't do secondary . |
| 13 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 14 | So it 's too young at the moment for the girls to feel that they ca n't do science . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd ‘ ave a riot on your hands if summat like a transvestite walked into one of them pubs , they ca n't handle stuff like that , ’ says Mark . |
| 16 | They ca n't handle violence . |
| 17 | Town need … have to win tomorrow … if they ca n't beat teams like Sheffield United then it 's big big trouble … |
| 18 | But then these bands do n't realise they ca n't make records as good as the Stones . |
| 19 | why they ca n't make aeroplanes out of the same stuff |
| 20 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 21 | Pity they ca n't record video on this it would be quite amusing . |
| 22 | In other words they ca n't tell price because they measure up and all things |
| 23 | But they ca n't see trains coming and drivers do n't know there is anyone inside the box . |
| 24 | ‘ They ca n't risk people who 've got cracks in the armour , ’ says Tony Barnes , manager of the banking division at Robert Walter Associates . |
| 25 | They ca n't claim compensation from the government for that . |
| 26 | They ca n't claim money for these . |
| 27 | It 's not because they ca n't have sex , it 's because they do n't want to . |
| 28 | Dad that , they ca n't have toast cos there 's bread in the freezer and it 's , there 's not enough time to get it out and defrost it . |
| 29 | We 're talking here of protection , of they ca n't have waiver of premium because of ill-health , they 're not going to be able to have living assurance , so it , it 's not an option really for them to have one without the other , because it 's an automatic protection that , that really should be the basis of somebody 's package of their health commitment to have it . |
| 30 | They ca n't have cakes they ca n't have anything that 's got fats in it . |