Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 2 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
| 4 | Random gain-and-loss of variants through such jumping mechanisms can eventually homogenise a family in all individuals . |
| 5 | So a poor diet can eventually have an effect on your hair condition . |
| 6 | Ape recruitment syndrome ( ARS ) is a primary cause of retarded company growth and can eventually turn an organization into a jungle ( if not a zoo ) . |
| 7 | However , shopping can eventually become an end in itself . ’ |
| 8 | Yet he passes with such unerring accuracy and hunts every ball with such determination that his opponents can rarely claim a winner until the umpire calls the score . |
| 9 | Thus , under certain circumstances intermediate good prices in the unintegrated sector can rise as a result of integration , and vertical merger can thereby cause a rise in final good prices . |
| 10 | It is my firm belief that if you can successfully run a group with elderly dementing people — you can run it with any client group . |
| 11 | So you can all do a summary , every single one of you , okay . |
| 12 | erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them . |
| 13 | I think we can all learn a thing or too from that oh er that sounded nice that that sounds even better , oh I 've cracked it right down the bloody middle |
| 14 | Erm And you can all get a copy of this is you want to write to the water authority . |
| 15 | And an inefficient billing system can so irritate a client as to lead to the eventual loss of the account by the agency . |
| 16 | Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry |
| 17 | We can merely give a number of examples . |
| 18 | They seem to be a simple , happy-go-lucky folk who are content if they can merely catch a bus or two each day , and find a bit of a gap in the traffic to nip through , and survive till bedtime . |
| 19 | A pixel addressable printer can obviously reproduce a bit mapped image , and page description formats have developed to allow this . |
| 20 | 3.5 millimetre jack sockets have been used for JK1 and JK2 , but you can obviously use an alternative such as phono sockets or standard jacks , if these will fit in better with other equipment . |
| 21 | These glittering occasions can obviously put a strain on any wardrobe , and the clear answer these days is to hire , rather than buy , a ballgown . |
| 22 | It 's one that we can perhaps put a bit of pressure on if we issue an application for you by getting ACAS involved and seeing whether ACAS can either get you back there or er get you a compensation off them . |
| 23 | You have no helpers and can only devote a total of 4 hours observation time to the task on any day . |
| 24 | erm We 've got to recognise the professional advice that Matthew is giving us in this report , that he , he needs professional trained staff , and it grieves me that really we can only offer a technician when he is asking for something more . |
| 25 | Your release may be 600 words but , if the editor can only print a story of 400 , the easiest means of editing is to cut the last part of the story . |
| 26 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 27 | The head of an agency can not typically ensure that his subordinates behave in a way that is exactly specified ; he can only design a policy to which they respond , and his perception of their response shapes the design . |
| 28 | In such circumstances , the historian can only present a number of different wage histories . |
| 29 | That 's right , you can only do a pair or something . |
| 30 | They did n't say , as the teds did , I can only wear a drape They 'd mix it a bit , getting into biker stuff and cap-sleeved T-shirts . |