Example sentences of "they can " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are also asked to keep your church leaders informed of your involvement so that they can ensure you are adequately supported . |
| 2 | They can become crippled psychologically and hooked physically . |
| 3 | They can kill , and injecting drugs with a shared needle or syringe can be the fastest way to get HIV — even if you only do it once . |
| 4 | I have seen for myself the value of ACET 's work in the community and I would whole heartedly recommend other churches get behind the work in any way they can . ’ |
| 5 | Men and women discharged from hospital with nowhere to live , or released from prison back into the community , are having to sleep rough or doss down wherever they can find a willing friend . |
| 6 | The beauty and achievements of Bohemian art can perhaps be called Czech only with an effort , but there is no doubt of the attachment of a people to the heritage that they can rightly claim . |
| 7 | A final caution about using monographs about painters is that they can seldom be read alone . |
| 8 | The versatile artist raises the question of relationship between the arts , and how far they can be considered to have the same or similar aims . |
| 9 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 10 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 11 | But they can be good at conveying what it was like for them to be there , and to be writing it down . |
| 12 | All is not dark in these accounts , and indeed they can be said to gleam with a quality of reflected light . |
| 13 | Dummies can come to life in books , as it seems they can do for their masters on the stage : and this miracle depends , not only on the author , but also on the people he knows , who may indeed be thought to participate in what he is , and who are likely to participate in his ventriloquism . |
| 14 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 15 | They can be said to determine and to indetermine , both to record , and to distort and desert , the facts of his life . |
| 16 | They 're born , they grow old , and they die like us ; and when they 're old , they can turn foolish , and even when they 're young , they can deceive you , and they 're actually capable of telling lies , pretending to be what they are n't : to be sick when they 're healthy , and healthy when they 're sick . ’ |
| 17 | They 're born , they grow old , and they die like us ; and when they 're old , they can turn foolish , and even when they 're young , they can deceive you , and they 're actually capable of telling lies , pretending to be what they are n't : to be sick when they 're healthy , and healthy when they 're sick . ’ |
| 18 | There is a danger in reading the classics , in that they can come to be regarded simply as literature — so always try to look at them as plays for performance — and , it goes without saying , try to see as much theatre as you can . |
| 19 | Fees set by each drama school do differ slightly , though they can be considered basically similar . |
| 20 | They can only suggest concepts and invite you to use them . |
| 21 | So the tutorial is a place for ideas as well as practice , and if they are well used they can help an actor to be more objective about the craft . |
| 22 | Agents do n't want deadwood and if they are interested in you it is because they feel they can sell you into the market , so that you can go on and make money both for yourself and them . |
| 23 | Getting a good set of prints is not cheap , although there are less expensive rates for students and most actors have a stock of postcard size prints that they can send off at the merest rumour of work . |
| 24 | Your agent will want you to be working , but they can not perform miracles for you . |
| 25 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 26 | Clearly , they can be seen to have a particular self-concept , a sense of what Weber termed social honour ( Wallis , Bruce , and Taylor 1986 ) . |
| 27 | Within this statement , which is rhetorical for some but deadly serious for others within the GAA , lies precisely the reason why the protestants of the North are so opposed to the development of Gaelic games and seek to oppose their extension if and when they can . |
| 28 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 29 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 30 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |