Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what do I remember of those three days in mid-September when I joined around 200 CA staff for the annual training conference at Swanwick in Derbyshire ? |
| 2 | An excellent method is to use one of the sponge filters which are operated by an air pump and can easily be regulated — plus the fry can graze upon the minute particles of food and organisms which colonise the sponge . |
| 3 | Its twenty five members , supported by the Milk Marketing Board , have effectively achieved a coup in that , as a collective they now aim to have some control over the prices they receive for their products as individuals and can bargain with the retailing giants , knowing they have the support of their fellow members . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you really think we can disappear into the blue ? ’ |
| 5 | Now I am thirty-five years old , and married to a traditional observant Jew and living in one of London 's most Jewish areas , I can laugh at the mistaken ideas I had . |
| 6 | On this basis , one can plot in the tropical belt for most periods of geological time , though the margin of error is such that sometimes they fit in with drifting hypotheses and sometimes they do not . |
| 7 | ‘ Others more qualified than I am in these matters can comment on the economic sense or otherwise of the proposed pit closures . |
| 8 | You can also colour-code or underline parts of the word which might cause difficulty , and can comment on the tricky bit when you record . |
| 9 | The teacher can comment on the image , trying to deepen commitment to the work and draw out the significance of what has been made . |
| 10 | The teacher can comment on the images , as in this example ; but with a large part of the class functioning as an audience we have an opportunity for involving them actively in the process and developing the sense that in educational drama the " audience " should be active and responsible . |
| 11 | Mrs Elaine Rodger , director of health care development for the NRHA , said : ‘ We are striving to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to receive information about this consultation and can comment on the proposals . |
| 12 | As they get older they tend to have very thin skin and can bruise from the slightest injury . |
| 13 | Beyond radiocarbon , other techniques such as TL are providing dates that can aid in the understanding of human evolution . |
| 14 | C-banding can aid in the localization of " centromere positions ( Figures 4a and b ) . |
| 15 | Reasons can assist the courts in performing their supervisory function , can help to ensure that the decision has been thought through , and can aid in the control of administrative discretion . |
| 16 | In linear molecules , only Π states give a spin-orbit splitting , and this can aid in the assignment ; similarly in non-linear molecules only E states ( where the electron has been removed from a molecular orbital of e symmetry ) show the effect . |
| 17 | In a small number of cases , however , the virus can persist in the body for several years , eventually causing a disease called sub-acute sclerosing pan-encephalitis ( SSPE ) . |
| 18 | As we shall see in Section 6.5 , some weathering products show a remarkable resilience to changing environmental conditions to the extent that in some circumstances they can persist in the landscape essentially unaltered for tens of millions of years . |
| 19 | Covenants also appear in leases where the person letting the property includes terms in the lease which restrict the person renting the property as to the use he or she can make of the property , e.g. the premises are to be used only for storage , not for retailing goods . |
| 20 | At the end of period t - 1 the best guess any agent can make of the values of v t and t(z) t the aggregate and relative demand shocks in the coming period , is that they will be zero . |
| 21 | Most of this chapter is devoted to a description of five sets of case studies of the new technology , showing the wide variety of different impacts it can make on the nature of work . |
| 22 | She needs to unburden , and good listening is not only good therapy , it is probably the most important contribution anyone can make to the happiness of the elderly who live alone . |
| 23 | And it 's amazing the difference a few more pounds can make to the quality of a guitar . |
| 24 | This is the main contribution that the linguistic sciences can make to the teaching of languages : to provide good descriptions … |
| 25 | One should therefore be cautious about generalisations which do less than justice to the contribution which friendship can make to the well-being of specific groups of old people . |
| 26 | Editor , — Roger Smith underestimates the contribution that biochemical markers of bone resorption can make to the diagnosis and monitoring of Paget 's disease . |
| 27 | The contribution which adults other than teachers , both employers and trade unionists , can make to the school curriculum has gained widespread recognition over the past ten years , through the activities of the SCIP , the Royal Society of Arts Industry Year ( 1986 ) , and the more recent DTI initiatives . |
| 28 | The contribution that a good choir , singing or instrumental group can make to the worship of a parish can not be underestimated . |
| 29 | However , KPMG Head of Corporate Recovery Tim Hayward cautioned : ‘ Too much should not be read into one quarter 's figures , particularly given the distortion that holidays can make to the third quarter . |
| 30 | " I 've seen enough to convince me that the only recommendation I can make to the bank is that they should withdraw all financial facilities to the Ingard group forthwith . |