Example sentences of "[conj] can [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also times when you need to find out how much your students know or can do with language . |
| 2 | The sign in the utterance , therefore , does not function as a symbol but as an index : it indicates where we must look in the world we know or can perceive in order to discover meaning . |
| 3 | Here , assuming managers move or can move between company types , this constraint potentially bears on all cases . |
| 4 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the high-end 620 chip , for moderately to massively parallel servers , is said to be being set for 64 bits with a special environment mode bit that can switch between 32- and 64-bit operation . |
| 6 | More importantly we urgently need a limit on the amnount of packaging chemicals that can migrate into food . |
| 7 | The British food industry responds to consumer demands for meals that can go from freezer to microwave to table within minutes . |
| 8 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 9 | However , despite this disappointing state of affairs , we identified some encouraging developments in several countries that can serve as guide posts to more appropriate and effective development and deployment of professional and paraprofessional resources . |
| 10 | VARIABLES — Characteristics , attributes or qualities that can vary in magnitude among individual cases or which have different categories are referred to as variables in statistical analyses where , usually , their relationship ( for example , between education of mothers and the number of children ever born to them ) is studied . |
| 11 | If one imagines a machine that can travel from junction to junction almost instantaneously , finding a path to the exit would take only seconds . |
| 12 | As a consequence , it is now back in the game as a sponsor of a conference that can lead to peace , as we all hope it will . |
| 13 | In the same way it is suspicious of women , and the way in which they can transform tears into a source of erotic and celebratory power that can lead to resurrection . |
| 14 | You ca n't tell who 's got HIV , the virus that can lead to AIDS . |
| 15 | There are obvious analogies to the immune system , including the fact that these proteins can be induced and that there are extremes of individual variability often related to the presence of polymorphisms that can lead on occasion to hypersusceptibility to the effects of environmentally derived agents . |
| 16 | There are many factors that can contribute to alcohol misuse . |
| 17 | Yet , the opportunities that can flow from education and training , can also be personally liberating . |
| 18 | This is because its construction did not take account of many of the equivalences that can arise between IF constructs , between ALT constructs , or as a consequence of |
| 19 | The following example of a joint problem-solving session , discussed in greater detail elsewhere in a different context ( Hanko 1985/7 ) , illustrates both the range of issues that can arise for exploration , and the processes which can be activated in group consultation to contribute to insight and solution . |
| 20 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 21 | The potential hazards that can arise from cabin pressurisation are only one aspect of the many features that aircraft designers must contend with , and engineers are well able to calculate the forces involved and build in the necessary safeguards . |
| 22 | Let us look in more detail at the difficulties inherent for everyone in appropriate penetration and then at the problems that can arise in marriage when these are or an extreme nature . |
| 23 | Many companies are not sufficiently aware of the conflicts of interest that can arise in practice . |
| 24 | We must distinguish between predictions that are common to all evolutionary theories , and those that can distinguish between optimality and mutation-accumulation . |
| 25 | If The Redskins are the Clash of the new soul , what we need is soul 's Sex Pistols , a group that can work from soul 's unrealism , its dangerous ecstasy , to make unreasonable demands . |
| 26 | Trade theory seems of little help , for the advances in recent years of understanding how trade might affect national welfare are offset by limits to the theories in their capacity to yield policy advice that can work in practice ( see , for example , Baldwin , 1988 ; Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | He says these figures imply a SAM that can operate at room temperature with a resolution 0.1 micrometres . |
| 28 | It 's amazing the ideas that can come to mind with a little thought and some extra effort on your part . |
| 29 | It is one of the very few creatures in the world that can kill by electrocution . |
| 30 | But the first computers that can learn by discovery are with us ; the Fifth Generation computers in Japan ‘ understand ’ rather than just process information . |