Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent research has shown that the scrapie agent can live for several years when buried in soil . |
| 2 | Sports such as judo or fencing can provide for these needs beyond fitness . |
| 3 | You , know , if , if these two people with the same number of kids can live for this |
| 4 | Overseas candidates can apply for these scholarships but must also apply for an ORS award . |
| 5 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 6 | With good care and feeding , the small animals can live for several weeks in the mini-aquarium maybe even longer . |
| 7 | The Otago CA report for that year had to report that the early high hopes for Otago cricket were now being ‘ affected by the Great War , and the necessity for all men to play the greater game for the Empire ’ . |
| 8 | Thus , the no-boundary proposal can account for all the complicated structure that we see around us . |
| 9 | I believe Seton was responsible but your own Benstede can answer for that , he and Seton seemed close friends . |
| 10 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 11 | A general expression to assess the potential improvement that access frequency loading can provide for any case in which A per cent of records account for B per cent of accesses is derived below . |
| 12 | One of the major areas of research in speech recognition concerns the ways in which general linguistic knowledge can compensate for such errorful or ambiguous acoustic input . |
| 13 | My wife can vouch for that , officers . |
| 14 | The comparison is an unsatisfactory one since there are important differences in the life histories of the two species : male kittiwakes can breed for many more seasons , adult mortality is not so strongly age-dependent and females can fledge up to three young per year ( see Coulson , 1966 , 1968 ; Coulson & Wooller , 1976 ; Wooller & Coulson , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | The Court has held in a recent case that the Commission can not ask leading questions which would require the undertaking concerned to admit an infringement of the competition rules , but that otherwise there is no right to silence : the Commission can ask for any information it requires to determine the extent of the infringement . |
| 16 | An authority can arrange for some or all of these services to be provided by voluntary organisations or the private sector . |
| 17 | SSDs can charge for many services . |
| 18 | Mussels can live for several years , but are very sensitive to ammonia and nitrite . |
| 19 | no man can pay for that . |
| 20 | Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances , let alone attempt to enforce such legislation . |
| 21 | So the government can correct for this type of market failure by increasing aggregate demand , either by spending more itself or by getting the private sector to increase its spending , through tax cuts or an expansion in the money supply and lower interest rates . |
| 22 | After a fortnight Carly will undergo blood tests so that doctors can check for any chemical alterations . |
| 23 | The shrimps can live for several years and the average mortality rate in adults within a population is a good predictor of the proportion of individuals within a population which will change sex . |
| 24 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 25 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 26 | We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years . |
| 27 | If one set of instruments can substitute for another , policy is in any case badly served by a legal framework which focuses on form rather than effect , as the UK restrictive practice legislation does . |
| 28 | If , for example , three known positions are input to the program before each session with the pantograph the software can compensate for any changes in the expected readings due to wear and tear or temperature . |
| 29 | These organisms can live for many years inside the body causing intense itching and other symptoms , including eventual blindness . |
| 30 | If the chairman agrees to put an estimated minimum value of an unascertained debt , the claimant of such a debt can vote for that value ( r 6.93(3) ) . |