Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many small rural districts these obligations can effectively pre-empt almost all ‘ voids ’ ( vacancies ) occurring during the year and leave very few opportunities for housing applicants from the general waiting list . |
| 2 | NOW that Falkirk Football Club has confirmed the surprising choice of Campbell Christie , General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress , as its new chairman , we can presumably look forward to a radical change of tactics on the field . |
| 3 | So , for example , when I ask a group of students at the beginning of an interdisciplinary course in women 's writing and the visual arts , to come up with the names of any contemporary women artists , they can rarely mention more than one or two . |
| 4 | I shall therefore look more closely at their teachings , partly because of the ecumenical value of an awareness of their doctrine , but mainly because we can thereby focus much more clearly upon what religions mean by ‘ God ’ . |
| 5 | Parent companies can thereby keep under tight control the capital they have tied up in idle stocks and make substantial savings on fixed outlay in storage or warehousing . |
| 6 | Although many of the massage techniques in this illustrated guide are for two people to practise on each other , as you can clearly see from the simple techniques over the page , massage is something that you can successfully achieve alone . |
| 7 | We can all go this afternoon , we can all go tonight , makes no difference |
| 8 | This can all go straight in the bin this with all this lot . |
| 9 | He says , There , he says , You can all go home and die now , all I 've got left is Epsom Salts . |
| 10 | it maybe it maybe , sir , you should allocate all the housing to Selby , and we can all go home . |
| 11 | And I just have a couple of other things I want to say to you and then we can all go home . |
| 12 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
| 13 | Let's see if we can all do better . |
| 14 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 15 | Well so that you can all play together . |
| 16 | Interestingly , in normal colonic lamina propria most cells ( 87% ) recognised by these reagents seem to be positive for all three markers and can apparently function both as phagocytes and antigen presenting cells . |
| 17 | Within a particular culture , a description can naturally go further in identifying a devout picture of a Virgin and Child , or a dancing figure with six arms as Siva . |
| 18 | The sand grains themselves are confined to a layer very near to the surface and thus their erosive effect is very limited in vertical extent , while surface creep can obviously affect only an extremely limited vertical range . |
| 19 | Now you 're obviously I mean most people are but you can obviously understand better think better if they 're more practical |
| 20 | Sometimes the ferret simply holds the rabbit and by drawing the line you can gently move both ferret and rabbit into reaching distance . |
| 21 | In addition , they can perhaps bring home to the community just how much education needs and deserves better funding . |
| 22 | However , it can be shown that the runaway greenhouse effect , had it acted on an Earth-like quantity of water , can perhaps lead initially to a copious escape of hydrogen with no enhancement of D/ 1 H during this process . |
| 23 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |
| 24 | A farmer rearing his own replacements and with a static herd size who purchases a calving heifer of roughly similar merit to his existing herd can perhaps afford about £4 per extra point . |
| 25 | No not now , you can perhaps try today . |
| 26 | A rabbit can suddenly spring forwards , upwards and away . |
| 27 | Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed . |
| 28 | The most vicious can suddenly look very prim when assuming the role of the victim . |
| 29 | I just hope there wo n't be too many … the music room can only hold about a hundred , comfortably . |
| 30 | Schools will need mechanisms for doing this ; and the level of professional understanding of the issues and the imperatives underlying them can only improve thereby . |