Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun sg] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the least , if fact I I 'm fairly safe in saying , that the least commission you can earn on an ad , providing it 's in our you know you 're taking it from our price system not discounted it , |
| 2 | In the latter case it can express either a subsequent actualization ( I managed to catch up with her ) or a subsequent potentiality ( I wanted to catch up with her ) . |
| 3 | The warmer water becomes , the less oxygen it can hold in solution . |
| 4 | No hard and fast rules can be laid down , but the sooner you can help teenagers acquire the confidence to act responsibly and not to be afraid of peer pressure , the more freedom you can allow them . |
| 5 | This is good news , and obviously the more support she can get from the community , the better . |
| 6 | ‘ The more preparation you can do , the cheaper the operation becomes . |
| 7 | The more money they can collect in direct taxes , which bite the rich hardest , the less they will have to raise by indirect taxes , which bite everybody equally . |
| 8 | ‘ An out-party sometimes forgets that the power it exercises as an opposition is to some extent in the hands of journalists ’ ; the more supportive the press is of the opposition party , the more pressure it can bring on the party in power . |
| 9 | The more emotion you can muster , the more effective it will be . |
| 10 | Try to fight in the lightest category you can manage without heavy dieting because , theoretically , the heavier you are within the weight limit , the more power you can pack into techniques . |
| 11 | The more unnecessary journeys you can cut out , the more time you can save . |
| 12 | They feel that the more control they can exercise over their surroundings , the safer life will be for them . |
| 13 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 14 | ‘ The more information we can get from the public the easier it is for us to tackle criminals and make life in the town better for everyone , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The more certainty they can have from this enquiry , the better for us in making our own plans . |
| 16 | At this stage we are only roughing-out our interview schedule , but the more attention we can give to detail now the more we are likely to be saving ourselves trouble later on . |
| 17 | Erm so federalism is a fairly important principle in American government and that principle , essentially , is , and most of you I hope will have done the first year course politics and policy making where I talked about federalism in general terms that federalism is based upon the notions that in the same territory you can have more than one government and that those governments er are of equal status . |
| 18 | The same way we can measure length in feet and inches ( or in metres ) , so we can measure the energy that food provides in calories . |
| 19 | In the same way we can transplant from the wilderness of our lives these images to our gardens . |
| 20 | In much the same way you can choose your friends but not your relatives , famous people are pestered by devotees gripped in varying degrees of obsession ; ranging from the mildly brain-damaged to psychopaths of the most dangerous order . |
| 21 | You ca n't usually " turn off " the picture in the same way you can turn down the sound but there are various ways you can organise things so that the class is presented with the soundtrack only : |
| 22 | Physics is physics , is n't it , you ca n't really discuss … not in the same sense you can discuss a novel or something , you ca n't really discuss a formula . |
| 23 | The same guarantee I can offer for all my house , whose will to you is as mine . |
| 24 | At the same time one can have sympathy with those who devised the term because it is the tangential force per unit charge integrated over a closed path . |
| 25 | We 'd like them to come along and see the horses working in the traditional way at the same time they can look at the Autumn colours . |
| 26 | At the same time they can interfere with the replication of normal viruses in the cell by using up raw materials . |
| 27 | At the same time we can relish the days more and more , and search in their interstices for the hidden treasures and thus our lives may become the supreme adventure and treasure hunt of the transcendent . |
| 28 | At the same time we can expect people 's interest in green issues and concern for their local environment to grow . ’ |
| 29 | At the same time everyone can tuck into dried fruit and nuts , torrone [ a type of chocolate or vanilla sweet with nuts ] , panettone [ a type of cake with raisins ] , or pandoro , which is softer than panettone and does not contain raisins . |
| 30 | At the same time it can reverse completely the power/information balance that can often be a problem in counselling . |