Example sentences of "can [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you will be well aware , as a member of housing committee , we do actually have faced a substantial crisis in terms of the availability of land which we can make available for building , that is one of the problems , possibly a short term problem , but nonetheless one of the problems key ones , which we face here . |
| 2 | The pupae can remain dormant for months , or even years , waiting for the right vibrations , which is why a person moving into a previously empty house may suffer a plague of fleas . |
| 3 | Canal channels and structures need general repair and maintenance in order that the waterways can remain open to traffic . |
| 4 | We have shown that fissure networks within a volcanic edifice can remain open between eruptions . |
| 5 | But then grandiose claims are made for most things you can buy connected with mountaineering . |
| 6 | This is not always easy , especially when the relationship is going through a sticky patch , but if they can feel close from time to time , the pulling-back will happen less , and Elizabeth could reassure Harry that just because she wants to do things for herself does n't mean that she does n't want him . |
| 7 | You are being seduced by your Ego 's love of melodrama and , since it can feel thrilling to dice with death , you might be tempted to walk rather too close to the edge of the cliff . |
| 8 | Surely , one could argue , it can only be recognized by knowledge of some convention that U means z ; but in that case we can do away with talk of complex intentions and construct an account of communication based directly on the notion of conventional signal . |
| 9 | The report also found that the Church can appear unfriendly to outsiders , and needs to teach more about the basics of the Christian faith . |
| 10 | Traces , records , vestiges of female experience can appear nostalgic in character ; but their witness to a common past is often challenged by present irony and by different , contrary desires to erase such relics or reshape the ground in which they were originally made . |
| 11 | This can result due to reductions in overmanning and improvements in other types of slack management procedures . |
| 12 | Staff can become familiar with CAL programs before using them with students and can use word processing packages . |
| 13 | But even ‘ unknown ’ actors can become expensive over time . |
| 14 | This move in , pull back shooting pattern can become repetitious of course , and an effective variant is to begin with a sudden close-up of some piece of action , say the kicking of a ball , and then to move back to reveal the background to the action . |
| 15 | The problem is that , for example , the nitrogen in blood can become available to plants in days and continue for a week or two , whereas the phosphate in bone can not possibly become available for several months . |
| 16 | The former can be easily damaged by careless use or everyday wear and tear , while the latter can fray due to fittings swaying in the breeze , and can become brittle with age . |
| 17 | Furthermore , it was discovered that while anyone can become infected with HIV , the ways in which this can happen are limited and the transfer of infected body fluids is always involved . |
| 18 | On the one hand this is easy , not to say natural , but the ride can become fraught with contradictions and potholes , such as what to do about Section 28 . |
| 19 | Above FIGURE 6 On a cold day in the fields , red-legged partridges can become spherical in shape , and sit round looking like a collection of footballs . |
| 20 | The supplier of goods or services can become liable for breach of contract in a variety of ways . |
| 21 | Home-spun goods , attractive enough as a symbol of frontier self-sufficiency , can become wasteful of time and energy . |
| 22 | Retained soil can become saturated with water and then exert tremendous pressure . |
| 23 | Program Manager , the default shell for Windows does n't suit everyone 's way of working , and it is true to say that the Windows desktop can become cluttered with myriads of overlapping windows and dialogue boxes . |
| 24 | * specialist suppliers Of manufacturing equipment will find such a concentrated market economic to supply , since within one region there will be a relatively large and varied demand for highly specialised machinery , At the same time , equipment suppliers can keep abreast of market and technological developments within the industry upon which it depends . |
| 25 | However , the way in which Joanie Schirm , chairwoman of the Orlando bid , prepared and presented the area 's offer was enough to persuade Alan Rothenburg , chairman of World Cup ‘ 94 , that the American razzmatazz of Disney can work hand-in-hand with soccer . |
| 26 | The goal is to market and distribute technology with SVR4.2 enabling software vendors to write , package and distribute one single version of their applications that can run unchanged on laptops , workstations , servers , mainframes and even supercomputers , from different vendors and based on different microprocessors . |
| 27 | East Germany has defeated the ‘ class enemy ’ and created a superior society where human beings can develop free of exploitation . |
| 28 | To safeguard that fundamental right , the motion says each nation should have a mother country recognised by the international community and the United Nation where national life , language and culture can develop free from threat . |
| 29 | The former can be easily damaged by careless use or everyday wear and tear , while the latter can fray due to fittings swaying in the breeze , and can become brittle with age . |
| 30 | The fact that we can have Deee-Lite at number one and they ca n't get anywhere in America . ’ |