Example sentences of "but can [adv] [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has been SCOTVEC 's consistent view that centres can not only prepare students/trainees to the level of occupational competence , but can also model the requirements of the workplace .
2 A history of failure in an area of life to which the person is highly committed not only makes him particularly vulnerable to depression following a further experience of failure , but can also raise the probability of further failures .
3 A company Diploma or Certificate programme can be managed in a similar way to the MBA but can also include the competences approach , learning contracts and mentoring .
4 Subscribers have the chance to ignore unwanted calls but can also use the system to record the numbers of recent callers when they are away from their homes .
5 Wall fabrics are generally more expensive than papers but can often make the walls look so luxurious that you can get away with minimal furnishings .
6 Because they strive , but can never counterfeit the ease or inevitability of great soul ; are smart but never opulent , well-turned but never flamboyant .
7 The plot is the most extravagantly and sentimentally romantic it would be possible to imagine , the story of brave , generous , broken-hearted Cyrano , who loves but can never win the girl because his nose is so grotesquely large .
8 That this necessity of distributing social labour in definite proportions can not be done away with by the particular form of social production , but can only change the form it assumes , is self-evident .
9 I could go on , but can only express the wish that such drivers would show the considerations that they are forced to adopt when they are not in their cars .
10 Unsurprisingly , viewers in the Serb-held cities in Bosnia are no longer able to receive Sarajevo TV , but can only see the Belgrade version of reality .
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