Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] can go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such careful spraying can go hand in hand with long-established techniques such as crop rotation , and planting resistant varieties . |
| 2 | Conservatives were concerned that an old lady can go and collect her pension without coming back to find her gas meter has been robbed , and that a mother can send her child round to a local shop without feat that the child will be molested . |
| 3 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 4 | Brave Dessie can go home |
| 5 | The problem is to determine how far this shaped perception can go before it becomes deceit or manipulation . |
| 6 | There are fundamental limits to how fast a conventional computer can go . |
| 7 | ‘ As leaders in environmentally friendly practices , the parks have a vital role to play in showing the way in which fostering the well being of communities and conservation of our natural heritage can go hand in hand . ’ |
| 8 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 9 | This notion was soon abandoned , along with any use of the S-R framework ( see , e.g. Gibson and Gibson 1955 ) , to be replaced by the suggestion that perceptual learning can go on quite independently of any associative processes . |
| 10 | The supporting leg can go on spinning on full pointe with that knee bent , as the working one is held in arabesque or attitude and finally sit on the floor . |
| 11 | As a contributor to a recent survey on ‘ comparability in social research ’ , published under the auspices of the British Social Science Research Council , sagely observes : ‘ a great deal can go wrong at the recording stage which may make subsequent analysis difficult or even impossible ’ . |
| 12 | An unhealthy diet can go straight to your head . |
| 13 | A good footnote can go a long way . |
| 14 | ‘ The legal thing can go out the window . |
| 15 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |
| 16 | It needs to be stressed that in a thermal reactor the fuel is near to its most active state and there is no way in which the nuclear assembly can go supercritical and explode like a nuclear weapon ( Coggle , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | However , even wine intended for immediate consumption can go off , so keep bottles in the following conditions : |
| 18 | They have set people wondering how far reform can go . |
| 19 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 20 | " The new Queen can go whistle up her kilter , " muttered Harry , and setting his leather tankard down on the earth floor beside the grate , stroke out of the front kitchen and into the foggy night . |
| 21 | A nice grovel can go in . |
| 22 | But a historian of modern transport can go to an enormous mass of recorded and photographed information when he can not find a surviving model of an early bombing aeroplane ; the historian of , say , medieval navies has infinitely smaller resources . |
| 23 | The new writing can go forward without being founded on a central lie . |
| 24 | Far from being a zero-sum game , far from being fixed in the amount that is technically available , those in possession of academic freedom can go on continually expanding its scope . |
| 25 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 26 | The whole class can go to bed one hour earlier tonight as punishment for this shameful behaviour . |