Example sentences of "can [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUN AND CA TIE THE KNOT |
| 2 | Well Howard , you ca have the England manager 's job , I 've made my decision . |
| 3 | By arranging ‘ forward ( or sideways ) creep ’ gates between paddocks , calves or lambs can graze the best , cleanest grass ahead of their dams . |
| 4 | It is probably highly unlikely that a firm which earns , say , 20 per cent from one productive opportunity can earn the same return from all other productive opportunities . |
| 5 | The critical assumption in this model is that the risk-free hedge can earn the risk-free rate of return . |
| 6 | This complex behaviour requires mechanisms to register the presence of prey or danger and to decide on and make the appropriate response , attacking or contracting into a blob — sensory cells , secretory cells , muscle cells and above all a network of electrically connected cells running right across its surface which can coordinate the hydra 's responses . |
| 7 | Spines can restrict the diffusion of Ca 2+ ( ref. 40 ) ; however , whether they do so in LTP is not known . |
| 8 | In this way the self-interested use of power can restrict the recruitment of talented individuals to highly rewarded positions . |
| 9 | There are many factors which can restrict the choice and ordering of themes in translation . |
| 10 | When plasmids coding for an endonuclease enter the E.coli C cells with an unmodified chromosome the K-modification is less effective on the unmethylated DNA [ 30 ] and the endonuclease can restrict the host chromosome [ 31 ] . |
| 11 | Where a restaurant certificate or a restricted hotel licence is being granted or transferred , if it appears to the licensing board that only a mid-day meal or an evening meal is being provided , it can restrict the permitted hours to the mid-day period , if only a mid-day meal is being provided , or to the evening period , if only an evening meal is being provided . |
| 12 | Although prima facie s343 TA 1988 will apply to a hive-down so as to preserve the transferor company 's carried-forward trading losses and capital allowances position , s343(4) can restrict the amount of the tax losses and allowances transferred , where the liabilities remaining with the transferor company exceed its remaining assets ( including the consideration for the hive-down of the trade ) . |
| 13 | This is to help ensure nutritional balance in your diet and , in particular , to supply calcium , because dietary fibre can hinder the absorption of calcium to some degree . |
| 14 | A family member who is addicted to " fixing " others and being a caretaker for them can hinder the chances or primary sufferers finding progress or recovery for themselves . |
| 15 | Furthermore , a digital graph plotter can reproduce the whole visual image on paper , with pinpoint accuracy , in a minute or two . |
| 16 | No synthetic chemical or compound can reproduce the vibration or pattern of the ‘ stuff of life ’ . |
| 17 | Right to reproduce the wax model remains with the sculptor , but his hired hand can reproduce the bronze . |
| 18 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 19 | It is not possible to discover even one other sentential context in which the im — /zero alternation can reproduce the contrast we find with impertinent . |
| 20 | When used for playing full chordal accompaniments they can reproduce the sound of a full pipe organ , or of the string , brass or percussion section of an orchestra . |
| 21 | Engineers at HR Wallingford have built a scale model of part of the threatened coast , they can reproduce the effects of the storm surge floods which can overwhelm the present defences . |
| 22 | Although through appropriate complex parameters the Z and h-parameter equivalent circuits can reproduce the small-signal sinusoidal response of any four-terminal network at any frequency , it is more usual to represent just the low-frequency behaviour by such an equivalent circuit with real parameters . |
| 23 | And Walters believes that if Liverpool 's players and supporters can rekindle the Auxerre spirit in front of a sell-out 38,000 crowd , they can clinch a place in the quarter-finals . |
| 24 | And Walters believes that if Liverpool 's players and supporters can rekindle the Auxerre spirit in front of a sell-out 38,000 crowd , they can clinch a place in the quarter-finals . |
| 25 | And Walters believes that if Liverpool 's players and supporters can rekindle the Auxerre spirit in front of a sell-out 38,000 crowd , they can clinch a place in the quarter-finals . |
| 26 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map , and mark the distance ( see fig 39 ) . |
| 27 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map and mark the distance . |
| 28 | The more measurements you take , the more accurately you can plot the curve ( fig. 49 ) . |
| 29 | True , Leeds do n't expect to score 10 against Stuttgart , their first round European opponents this season — but Collins believes Wilkinson can plot the downfall of the Germans . |
| 30 | We can plot the current flowing through the channel , which is here shown on the ordinate , as a function of the holding voltage , which is shown on the abscissa here , and when we do that we get a so-called current voltage relationship . |