Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most pubs in the country are owned by the big six breweries , so Glennie Brewery can only sell to freehouses . |
| 2 | The Guardian newspaper , in partnership with the Royal Institute for the Blind and associates has launched a system that enables the entire editorial text of the newspaper to be transmitted nightly via Teletext on Channel 4 television 's frequencies to a personal computer , which can read the text in a synthesised voice to blind and partially sighted people : those that can afford an £8,000 Braille terminal can also read the text that way , and it can also be displayed in large print on the screen for those with poor sight ; the text is structured so that readers can scan the headlines and choose the items that interest them ; the paper will be marketed , serviced and supported by Electronic Text Networks Associates Ltd of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , a commercial venture one third owned by the Guardian and the charity ; the other shareholders , each with a third share , are Aptech Ltd , which specialises in computer aids for disabled people , and Intelligent Research Ltd , which made the hardware for the system ; the decoder board for the personal computer is £400 , plus about £500 for a speech synthesizer ; the annual subscription to the electronic paper is £160 and the partners hope that other papers will decide to go onto the system . |
| 3 | Veteran readers of Ireland 's Saturday Night can still rhyme off the contributors who used to grace its pages . |
| 4 | That would mean , to quote one of my fishermen who suggested the proposal , ’ Johnny foreigner can not get any more of our British quota . ’ |
| 5 | It 's because Middlesbrough Council can not afford to increase the subsidy for concessionary fares from £1.35m . |
| 6 | And the problem is exacerbated with the level of competition on the market increasing all the time — many hardware vendors , for example , are trying to boost dwindling profits by moving into this arena — many observers question whether IBM Corp can actually make money from facilities management . |
| 7 | In assisting executive managers with transformational change , the HRD practitioner can not overemphasize the importance of top-level commitment and the visibility of that commitment . |
| 8 | But Mexico shows that , where there is the political courage , the Brady plan can really work . |
| 9 | If the Hunterston guide can also prove she 's the best in Britain , she 'll get a brand new Vauxhall Astra . |
| 10 | And Street is sure that the Premmia range can only build on this success . |
| 11 | With a signature print that resembles crazy paving and stained glass windows , Pucci clothing can not fail to attract attention . |
| 12 | Production for most of Europe is centred on Grimsby but the reduced paperwork brought about by the Single Market means that the UK site can now deliver to Europe within 24 hours . |
| 13 | Although the details contained in this brochure have been published in good faith , Somerset Tourism can not accept any liability for inaccuracies or omissions or for any loss or damage in any way connected with or arising out of the publication of this information . |
| 14 | The group outlined its fears that the Ulster Hospital can not cope with the growing population within the North Down and Ards areas . |
| 15 | Those who recognize the imbalances in the Byrd discography can only applaud their continued advocacy of these profound and arresting works some of Byrd 's best music , and therefore among the finest English works of all time . |
| 16 | But the orthodox CDM model can not draw much comfort from it . |
| 17 | First , the sequence of developments to which such an initiative gives rise can not be predicted with accuracy , and a project such as the ESSE/L Project can well have unintended consequences which , though not stated as objectives , deserve evaluative comment . |
| 18 | Based on the above , which HDTV hype can not alter , I suggest that commercial technical research should concentrate on larger flat screens with superimposed pixels with change of standards but with some attention to the basic defects in the NTSC , Pal and Secam systems which are only mildly irritating . |
| 19 | The LEA budget can not match the sort of investment that the fast food marketing chains make but , in promoting healthy eating , we can copy the best of their relatively inexpensive marketing and presentation techniques and use them to our advantage . |
| 20 | The return fare to the conference is £1,800 and it is felt that Cleveland Ambulance can not justify the expense of public money on one person . |
| 21 | The seat is one of several in Rajasthan which the Janata Dal can not afford to lose if the combined opposition forces are to oust Mr Gandhi from power . |
| 22 | But while the FA Cup can still turn dreams into reality , the Second Division might have to settle for one representative at Wembley after tomorrow 's semi-finals . |
| 23 | The Pacific region can not fail to benefit from the current recovery in the US economy , Baillie Gifford believes . |
| 24 | Under its agreement with IBM Corp , Intel Corp can only sit back and watch while IBM stuffs its versions of the Intel iAPX-86 microprocessor family into boards and sells them on the OEM market , and yesterday , IBM 's Electronic Card Assembly & Test Plant in Charlotte , North Carolina announced contracts totalling $344m to manufacture personal computer planar boards for two California firms : Eteq Microsystems Inc in Milpitas and that new company , Alaris Inc , just formed by those Everexes in Fremont ( CI No 2,121 ) . |
| 25 | The average Macintosh user can proficiently operate around six packages while the PC user can manage just three , of which one is the dreaded operating system . |
| 26 | John Stuart Mill can not help claiming the suffrage for the Negro — and the woman . |
| 27 | This method involves a little bit of a cheat as the Macintosh keyboard can not access the PostScript fractions unless you either have a special fractions font or are using one of the new Adobe Expert fonts with an extended and re-mapped character set . |
| 28 | Council house tenants in the Marske area can now take advantage of a drop-in centre each Friday at the housing information centre in Marske Leisure Centre , where they can put their housing problems . |
| 29 | In spite of much justifiable criticism , the Flory-Huggins theory can still generate considerable interest because of the limited amount of success which can be claimed for it in relation to phase equilibria studies . |
| 30 | A DARLINGTON man can not fulfil his life-long ambition to be a chauffeur because he is too young . |