Example sentences of "[coord] 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 | The nanokernel acts like a bus and can move between operating systems to run different systems simultaneously on different processors . |
| 6 | The King is aggressive , unpredictable , and can strike without provocation . |
| 7 | The wind in your face produced by fast skiing has the same cooling effect and can result in frostbite . |
| 8 | The widower will receive many more invitations out to meals in other people 's homes in the early days too , and he will have the advantage of never having to feel trapped in the isolation of an empty house in the evenings ; for if his emotional condition after his wife 's death is reasonably steady and he feels the need of company , he can always stroll out to the local pub for a drink , where he can remain in complete control of the amount of conversation he wants , or can endure , and can head for home again just when he feels like it . |
| 9 | Our membership secretary , Mrs. K. Vardy , lives in Petersfield ( 0730 69191 ) and has Trust application forms , and can advise on membership . |
| 10 | How does he square the Government 's commitment to allow public service managers the right to manage with compelling them to opt for competitive tendering in circumstances where , he will accept , that can be costly to prepare and can lead to inflexibility in meeting changing circumstances ? |
| 11 | High blood pressure ( or hypertension ) increases with age , and can lead to heart attacks , strokes and kidney disease . |
| 12 | This can have a demotivating effect on more able pupils and can lead to under-achievement . |
| 13 | Rape itself is extremely traumatic and can lead to family problems but imagine the horror of being told that you must have a stranger 's child and the complications with a jealous boyfriend or husband . |
| 14 | Higher degrees of polish produced by lapping with finer diamond pastes give no noticeable improvement in optical properties and can lead to adhesion problems , notably to lifting of the thin slice at later preparation stages . |
| 15 | Fear , injury , stress and illness are all direct results of crime and can lead to absenteeism , decreased productivity and higher staff turnover . |
| 16 | Our experience is that it is possible to persuade unconvinced people to do something as drastic as this , but it is unwise and can lead to disaster . |
| 17 | Top left : Chevron grids affect superimposed lines and can lead to moiré effects . |
| 18 | Minor public order incidents can be treated less sympathetically than for white people and can lead in turn to confrontation and serious disorder warranting emergency admission . |
| 19 | Fleischmann was alluding to the strategic importance of lithium-6 , which is present as 7.5 per cent of all naturally occurring lithium and is an important ingredient in thermonuclear weapons as it can be cleft by neutrons to make tritium , the essential fuel , and can fuse with deuterium to make helium-4 , releasing energy in the form of gamma rays without accompanying neutrons . |
| 20 | Some playback machines are multi-standard and can switch from PAL to SECAM or NTSC , but do n't assume anything about video machines you are going to use . |
| 21 | They look like young spinach and can vary in taste from bland to quite pungent . |
| 22 | Hypersomnia has many causes and can vary in severity from slight drowsiness to falling sound asleep . |
| 23 | But I am sure that a dynamic system which is flexible enough to respond to congestion as and when it occurs and can cope over time with any land use intensity changes without modification , will be more acceptable to the travelling public than rigid systems . |
| 24 | The trays have been flow-tested and can cope with power showers . |
| 25 | Hotels , larger or smaller than Hallery House , will also benefit from the system which can be installed to handle two exchange lines and 10 extensions , and can grow in size to 40 exchange lines and 140 extensions . |
| 26 | Environmental evidence forms a special category of finds , and can consist of animal bones and snail shells large enough to be seen and collected by the excavators . |
| 27 | Giving marks for written work can help the student to assess how well he is doing and can serve as reinforcement ( either because good marks tell him he is making satisfactory progress or because poor marks will tell him he must make a grater effort ) . |
| 28 | IN THE two or three minutes before kick-off Graeme Souness will make his players believe they are 10 feet tall and can walk through fire . |
| 29 | It includes PCX and GIF in its file formats , works with Hercules and above in 2 , 16 or 256 colours and can print to laser or dot matrix . |
| 30 | Data General Corp and Digital Analysis Corp have developed an integrated network , system and application package which can be used with TCP/IP and OSI protocols : OS/EYE*NODE uses SNMP and CMIP/CMIS for control , monitoring and analysis and can run on Sun 's NetManager and Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView without further coding operating over Ethernet , token ring , X.25 or FDDI networks — no prices given . |