Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] [conj] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The techniques we have looked at are more effective with some types of material than others and we want materials that can take a sensible place in our scheme of work . |
| 2 | I have explained some of the ways of getting to know members of the media and why it is important to have relationships with them within that framework , you must build a portfolio of individual contacts in the media world with whom you liaise , send material and can give special items and ideas from time to time . |
| 3 | What this means in practice is that through these schemes , monthly repayments are considerably reduced , which means customers save money or can afford a higher specification model if they wish . |
| 4 | Such players , whose strength knows no moderation , require pianos that can take any excesses . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've eyes that can see such things , Ruthie . |
| 6 | 1989 Nobel Prize winners J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus of the University of California , San Francisco , along with Dominique Stehelin of France , discovered in 1 976 that normal cells contain genes that can activate cancer if they malfunction . |
| 7 | A sharp energy , called the mobility edge , separates these ‘ localised ’ states from the ‘ delocalised ’ or ‘ current-carrying ’ ones , which contain electrons that can range throughout the semi-conductor . |
| 8 | Now you have skills that can travel with you . |
| 9 | It was concluded that low cost tools have limitations but can provide useful experience to system builders that allows for the critical selection of more advanced software . |
| 10 | If you are offered antibiotics remember that many of them have side-effects and can leave you feeling worse than before . |
| 11 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 12 | Some lifts have rails that can fold up at the bottom if space is tight or if a doorway is going to obstructed . |
| 13 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 14 | I suppose the very idea that they have spacecraft and can zoom about all over the Galaxy at warp seven , leads us to assume that they must be . |
| 15 | You can provide a framework for winter and summer boxes with perennial plants like conifers , which give height and shape ; small-leaved decorative ivies , which soften edges and can add colour with variegated leaves ; or one of the variegated vincas such as v minor Aureo-variegata or v major Elegantissima , which have the added bonus of blue flowers from March . |
| 16 | Aggressive corals such as the large polyp forming Euphylia bubble corals ( Plerogyra species ) and large carpet anemones ( Stoichactis species ) have stings that can cause a painful rash if carelessly handled , giving some idea of the powerful weapons they possess . |
| 17 | If you have time and can take a couple of days over the job , wait until the water has drained away , and fill the hole again . |