Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level control built into the transmitter can help to reduce this effect , but can rarely eliminate it without compromising the output level . |
| 2 | But it is debatable whether one can wholly understand it from the inside . |
| 3 | A humble self-sufficiency — hard-earned , often enough , like Larkin 's , and subject to sudden , spasmodic panics of loneliness or a fear of being thought insensitive — are the hallmark of many a post-war British hero , and no talk of anti-heroes can entirely rob it of its modicum of cautious praise . |
| 4 | From the available information , we can not tell how many of the 1160 deaths in 1986 belong to the 1946 cohort so we can only estimate it to be 1160÷2 = 580 and assume that another 580 of the 1946 cohort will die in 1987 . |
| 5 | But he can only , he can only do it on your information . |
| 6 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , there is no real solution to these difficulties and again we can only leave it to the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusion on the basis of the material presented . |
| 8 | going to cash my giro today as well you can only cash it at one of your local |
| 9 | And the Attorney-General can only act if there is a complaint about sentence within 28 days of the verdict and can only refer it for review on grounds of leniency . |
| 10 | Divorce is common and easily obtained by men : women can only achieve it with difficulty . |
| 11 | The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today . |
| 12 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |
| 13 | As Gandhi points out : ‘ We can only visualize it in our imagination . |
| 14 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
| 15 | As Henry Ford said , you can only have it in black , or in this case , with one option — clear . |
| 16 | They can only use it as a source of energy after alcohol has been processed by the liver . |
| 17 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 18 | Because we we can only take it on their word when they say we shall insure . |
| 19 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 20 | so you can only push it across to three and get near the yellow , near the black . |
| 21 | It can only obtain it by eating animal proteins . |
| 22 | I er I can only write it from a Jewish perspective , it 's the perspective I stand at , but it seems to me that beyond a few superficialities there is no such thing as Jewish spiritual truth any more than there is Jewish mathematical truth . |
| 23 | I can only hear it at home really , this thing she 's |
| 24 | So you can only see it on paper . |
| 25 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 26 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |
| 27 | If they are to get full influence for the purpose of bringing constituencies up to the mark , they can only get it by being the channels for help . |
| 28 | You can only swap it for nice things . |
| 29 | Well they can physically do it to you with use of fists , use of hands and whatever else they 've got and they can mentally do it to you like put you in jail that or all sorts of things like when I was on sick leave , they came and lifted me . |
| 30 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |