Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it good to know you can sprint effortlessly for a bus , you can run up a flight of stairs without your heart thumping ? |
| 2 | However , each represents a recognisable stage of achievement , so that the student can build progressively towards a range of demanding and useful competences . |
| 3 | The problem can arise acutely in a situation where Y takes goods from X on ‘ sale or return ’ terms . |
| 4 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 5 | What is unique about capitalism is that exploitation and surplus labour can exist even within a system of free labour markets , so creating the illusion that the worker is also free ; but as Marx points out this is not the case . |
| 6 | Yer can stay here for a bit . |
| 7 | A gentle walk — which can act almost as a warm-down — will help to clear the debris from your legs and will aid recovery . |
| 8 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 9 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 10 | Interview schedules can fall anywhere on a scale from the completely structured to the completely unstructured , and many include questions of several types within the same schedule . |
| 11 | The arts are especially important and effective in arousing spiritual awareness because they can speak directly at a feeling level , as well as being free from any slavish dependence on religious ideas which are often rejected out of hand by secularists . |
| 12 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 13 | It has had to accept that it can do neither without a deal with the opposition . |
| 14 | Clinical manager Janet Powell said : ‘ We have tried to make our service as accessible as possible so that anyone who needs to see us , whether about themselves , a relative or friend , can do so at a time convenient to them , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Well every biologist knows why you want to do that , it 's so you can swim sinusoidally like a fish . |
| 16 | It may be that the general class of adverbials which can appear initially in a sentence could be taken as possible markers of ‘ topic-shift ’ . |
| 17 | Thus the term " criterion " can refer either to a description of the knowledge and skills possessed by the learner or the score which has to be reached in order to qualify for the description . |
| 18 | If such a structure is to work in practice then it is necessary to keep the teams comparatively small so that they can work together as a unit . |
| 19 | So it makes much more sense if you can work co-operatively with a chain . |
| 20 | A scientist I know is amazed how often his eight year-old son can see immediately through a tangle of ideas in a problem — the directness and uncomplicatedness and openness of the child is a huge asset which many adults have lost . |
| 21 | While the fundamentals of caddying may not have changed since Skip Daniels and Gene Sarazen strode the Prince 's links , the financial aspect has : whereas a caddie in the 1930s might have earned only a pittance for sharing an Open success , the modern-day caddie earns a healthy basic wage on the European tour , and can look forward to a percentage of the winnings . |
| 22 | We hope that with the help of its staff , its passengers and its supporters , the line can look forward to a future reflecting its hey day . |
| 23 | With Isaac God can look forward to a world over which he can again clap his hands in delight . |
| 24 | If that 's the case then Down Royal can look forward to a bumper fixture and then maybe those small fields for the Ulster Derby will begin to be only a bad memory . |
| 25 | On top , he 's given a 3 500 housing allowance , and can look forward to a pension of up to 19 500 pounds a year . |
| 26 | Instead of looking directly for something one wants to get a true belief about , one can look instead for a sign . |
| 27 | ‘ No industry can function effectively without a work force which is content and properly looked after . |
| 28 | ‘ No industry can function effectively without a work force which is content and properly looked after . |
| 29 | The flush-fitting Apex can fit tidily into a space between your units , without the need for an air gap . |
| 30 | Touche Ross has drawn attention to the fact that the amounts attributable to individual players can fluctuate rapidly as a result of selection policy , personal form/injury , international representation and other matters . |