Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the funeral a set form of words is used and I think it is helpful to look at what sense these words can convey to this majority population who are not regular church attenders . |
| 2 | The way words generate whole clusters of other words can come as another new and interesting idea . |
| 3 | It is with a huge sigh of relief that Scottish football fans can reflect on this crucial moment . |
| 4 | Graham Sharpe organiser says there is nowhere else in the world where two legs can race against four and pick up fourteen thousand pounds in prize money if they win … he explains that the horse has been beaten once by a mountain bike three years ago but they 've never been able to work out a winning formula |
| 5 | Presentations of costs of residential and fostering care and intermediate treatment which ignore these important considerations can result in unjustified conclusions about cost effectiveness . |
| 6 | Children who have been integrated into mainstream schools can return at any time for help and are called back at six-monthly intervals for checks . |
| 7 | Dr. John Quicke , psychologist and Lecturer in the Division , has been awarded a research grant of £10,000 from the Mental Health Foundation , ( with likely funding of a further £10,000 ) to explore ways in which schools can teach about mental handicap . |
| 8 | Relatively small changes in the layout of a room or in its lighting and furniture may seem insignificant when considered separately , but the sum total of such adaptations can result in safer , more pleasing and efficient surroundings for pupils with sight problems . |
| 9 | But in fact readers can adapt to shortened spelling within minutes regardless of their own views or suspicions . |
| 10 | The package also has improved ability to construct hypertext links , so that readers can jump from one part of a document to a linked part with a simple click . |
| 11 | Health Works readers can ring in free today and talk to a trained nutritionist about diet . |
| 12 | Progress will be shown by increased fluency ; an increase in the range of types of text which the pupil can tackle without frustration ; an increase in the range of approaches which readers can apply to particular texts according to their own purposes and those of the texts — skimming , scanning , close reading and so on . |
| 13 | These solutions can extend to wholesale modernisation , but can also include revised maintenance practices , smaller modernisation schemes , cosmetic improvements to lift car interiors and improving indication systems for hotel guests . |
| 14 | A boat with eight units can pull in 3800 squid in 40 minutes . |
| 15 | For our immediate purposes , we need only keep in mind that particular public sector organizations can fall in either of the categories of Type A non-profit and Type B non-profit . |
| 16 | The value of such studies is that they show plainly the ubiquity of popular political action , which may be diffuse , episodic , lacking any clearly formulated doctrine , or expressing itself mainly in religious or cultural terms , but always provides a matrix from which political organizations can emerge in favourable circumstances . |
| 17 | You , know , if , if these two people with the same number of kids can live for this |
| 18 | On the whole , since most modern computers can work with complex numbers , ( i ) seems the most straightforward . |
| 19 | The existence of a London Showroom for the contract and international market is a vital part of the marketing process where designers can see at first hand the fabrics and curtains to be used in their interiors . |
| 20 | However , in case of need , cars can run on pure alcohol after adjustments . |
| 21 | In an attempt to clarify the issue , Esso has brought out a new edition of their guide to motorists about which cars can run on unleaded fuel . |
| 22 | It has been designed as a pan-European system with multilanguage facilities , all of its ledgers can operate in multiple currencies , and it runs on a wide variety of hardware platforms and operating systems , including Unix and a variety of proprietary systems . |
| 23 | Certainly , small disputes are often settled much more quickly , particularly where the parties can agree to written submissions only , thus avoiding a full arbitration hearing . |
| 24 | Yet the system remains defective , with no limits at all on what British parties can spend on national campaigns , or on the size of donations they can receive . |
| 25 | Similar strategies have been pursued in most Western European and Australasian democracies for a longer period , notably in the UK , where limits on what parties can spend in local constituencies are remarkably stringent . |
| 26 | There is also provision for private litigation , whereby private parties can sue for three times the damages inflicted upon them by violations of the law . |
| 27 | Indeed many VAT disputes can settled by this method . |
| 28 | Er we can we 've at least distinguished that channels can exist between closed and open states , and the transition between the closed and open states is known as gating . |
| 29 | Overseas candidates can apply for these scholarships but must also apply for an ORS award . |
| 30 | Coupling with slow ice sheet and ocean feedbacks can account for orbitally-paced planetwide changes of temperature and CO 2 recorded in ice cores in ways that purely atmospheric models can not . |