Example sentences of "with a [noun] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be offering to be a sister with a shoulder I can cry on in a moment , wo n't you ? |
| 2 | OUP is therefore looking for a business relationship with a supplier who can provide a system to do the job . |
| 3 | With a company which can make use of new technology , jobs are certainly put at risk by resisting , or less than enthusiastically supporting , new technology . |
| 4 | Why Professor John Kenneth Galbraith thinks you should read New Internationalist : " It 's a magazine with a purpose we can all applaud and must support " |
| 5 | If you have a deep relationship with a person you can spend long periods of silence , being together and not be embarrassed , not be wondering what shall I say now ? |
| 6 | … with a name you can trust |
| 7 | ‘ There are two children to each room and it 's planned that anyone who has difficulty speaking is put with a child who can communicate well . |
| 8 | They have a slot on the end of the drive shaft , and by turning this with a screwdriver you can generally free the impeller inside . |
| 9 | Fortunately , many types of pump can be restarted without have to be disconnected and dismantled ; they have a slot on the end of the drive shaft , and by turning this with a screwdriver you can generally free the impeller inside . |
| 10 | The only satisfactory way to deal with a word which can not be found is to negotiate it with the user ; such a word can be ignored ( i.e. , removed from the search ) or replaced , or the search can be abandoned on the ground that the word is correct and essential to the success of the search . |
| 11 | We usually manage to provide every new member or new mum with a contact who can introduce her to the NCT and chat over any everyday difficulties . |
| 12 | Sadder occasions occur ambulance charters need to be carried out , typically to Southampton with a patient who can not be treated satisfactorily in the islands . |
| 13 | With a spreadsheet you can alter values , constants or the formulae relating them at will and the entire sheet will reflect these changes , instantly . |
| 14 | In older systems , the inspection chamber nearest the boundary of the concrete inspection chamber property may be fitted with an interceptor trap through which the water will normally flow : a rodding arm is fitted with a stopper which can be used to unblock this length of drain . |
| 15 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 16 | The corrosive acids of modernity have powerfully assisted a general movement of ‘ secularisation ’ , and faced all kinds of religious tradition — Christian and non-Christian alike — with a challenge which can not be ignored . |
| 17 | ( " on inspection with a microscope it can be seen that each nucleus consists of two identical filaments " ) |
| 18 | Mistakes can be rectified by re-drawing the letter and should the PDA have particular trouble with a letter it can be re-trained with four new samples of the character . |
| 19 | It means a nervous dependence upon nature , a relationship with a step-parent who can never be entirely relied upon . |
| 20 | They live in perpetual hope of persuading some head of chambers to take them in when a vacancy occurs ; meanwhile , to confer with a client they can only occupy someone else 's desk , by his good grace , when he is not using it . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've heard about a chap who 's in close touch with a fellow who can always manage it . |
| 22 | With a swimsuit I can swim with Ana and get to know her better . |
| 23 | With a dentist one can understand what the chap is actually saying . |
| 24 | It is surprising how many people go through life breathing inadequately and , although in many instances this does not prove to be too great a problem , in the case of someone with a stammer it can increase their difficulties enormously . |
| 25 | But now after the Fall , they are equivocal , ambivalent , with a potential which can be turned either way . |
| 26 | I hate watching someone struggle with a job I can do more quickly . |
| 27 | I saw the brown hair on the crown of her head , gleaming in the sun with a beauty I can not describe . |
| 28 | Words are imbued with a meaning which can often be affected by context , culture and history , all of which are subject to change . |