Example sentences of "a [noun sg] can [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who wants to make a donation can send it directly to Kevin at Leeds . |
| 2 | This comparison may form the crucial part of a description ; later on , using comparison as a criterion , that a portrait should look like the sitter , that landscape should look natural , and the objects in a still life should be identifiable , a critic can use it as part of an evaluation . |
| 3 | The telephone watch receiver is used in two ways : ( 1 ) holding it to your other ear when using the ‘ phone may ( depending on your hearing loss ) provide better speech reception and prevent interference from background noise ; ( 2 ) you speak on the telephone in the ordinary way , and someone ( a child can do it ) listens through the watch receiver and repeats to you what the speaker says , which you then speechread and reply direct to the caller . |
| 4 | It may well be that they 're doing it , with er other ways of doing it and er that 's , that 's discussion , but I do actually think that there is sometimes something to be said , and I think a group can say it more easily than individual , is if you want something done , do it , but do n't come along and complain . |
| 5 | With a hole to play , a birdie to a par can square it up again . |
| 6 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 7 | Given that the image already exists on paper , a scanner can capture it as a bitmap which can then be manipulated by a suitable graphics package . |
| 8 | Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth . |
| 9 | If a piece of dark paper about l/z inch in length is moved where a toad can see it , it will snap at it just as if it were an insect ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 10 | Even a man can do it . |
| 11 | A painter can show it , but what can I do ? |
| 12 | Naturally , a computer can send its data faster than a printer can handle it , and this situation is made worse by using PostScript . |
| 13 | Only a Tzarina can wield it and if any man were even to touch the blade he would be instantly frozen to death . |
| 14 | There can be , as erm I saw demonstrated recently , very large thunderstorm occurring in between observations , and that thunderstorm can not be seen by any one of the surface observations , but it is there , radar can pick it up , for instance , or a satellite can see it , but the man on the ground ca n't see it necessarily , and so that could slip through and it may be the only thunderstorm in a vast area , but it is there , but the observations do n't show it . |
| 15 | Only a beating can shake it from him ! ’ |
| 16 | The statistics may have low confidence levels , and the assumptions for deduction may be ill founded ; but if they both lead to the same classification , then a learner can trust it . |