Example sentences of "can [vb infin] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The same problem can arise with finished products such as tools , or personal computers .
2 A similar paradox can arise with other norms supposedly based at a biological level , but there are cases that avoid it .
3 The problem that can arise with dried foods , apart from the problems arising from any not consumed , is that the proteins may be appreciably less digestible than those from live foods — and that the vitamin content reduces with time .
4 Whichever way we look at it we can disregard with clear conscience both the radial electric field and the magnetic field .
5 Normally loving and full of fun , Peter can explode with passionate anger at James and Mary , their fourteen-year-old twins .
6 " You can answer with simple signs , " he said reassuringly , " we 'll soon have you out of here and on four wheels again . "
7 You can merge with ultimate emptiness anywhere .
8 " Psychoanalytic criticism can merge with other kinds of reading without supplanting them : it can underpin without undermining . "
9 Although CREB can bind to DNA as a homodimer CREB is a member of the ‘ bZIP ’ class of transcription factors ( 23 , 24 , 25 ) and can heterodimerise with other bZIP proteins ( 26 , 27 ) .
10 But it does not follow that one can predict with complete accuracy the sentence that a judge will pass in a given case .
11 This is not an uncommon occurrence because birds of prey have what is known as ‘ tunnel vision ’ — which means that although they can focus with deadly accuracy on the prey straight in front of them , they have difficulty seeing anything outside that direct line of sight .
12 As it is necessary during the assembly of certain components ( such as links ) to rotate them about their assembly points so they can mate with other constrained linkages , the original component drawing should also carry suitable construction arcs struck from the assembly point and passing through the linkage pin point .
13 We shall now take a ferromagnetic material that has a very narrow hysteresis loop so that we can assume with good approximation a unique ( though of course nonlinear ) relationship between B and H. The material is again assumed to be of a toroidal shape but it is now excited by a current I flowing in a coil of N turns ( Fig. 3.13(a) ) .
14 Work is too important and too unsure to be obstructed by the uncertainties of not knowing what is expected and by whom , and by having to continually negotiate what one can do with individual power players .
15 This figure contains all the separate information-processing components which seem to be needed to explain how we do all the things we can do with verbal stimuli , plus arrows indicating pathways of communication between these components .
16 Bacterial meningitis can present with acute disturbance of behaviour which may closely mimic substance abuse .
17 The classification is made more complicated because some α subunits can associate with different β subunits ( for example , α6β1 and α6β4 ) .
18 To formalize this : the following ( OE ) classes can appear with final th :
19 The potential realizations of these three classes are , however , different : ( ht ) items can also appear with st , cht , etc. ( such as wicht ) : the other two classes can not ; ( th ) items can also appear with final p , ta ; ( such as wip ) : the other two classes can not ; ( t ) items can appear with final single t ( such as wit , whit ) : the other two classes can not .
20 Are they satisfactory , genuinely universal conceptual systems , which everybody in the new , gender-free intellectual cosmos can use with perfect comfort ?
21 It is all too easy to carry out this procedure in a vacuum and to forget that this is part of a parent training process which , we hope , will equip them with skills they can use with other problems .
22 This was as shown ; although June says that you can work with other combinations of stitches .
23 The need for additional secure places that can be accessed by Leicestershire is not at issue , what 's still be investigated is how a regional service meeting varying types of needs can be provided discussions are still taking place with Northamptonshire county council and into some other current secure unit provider authorities as to how best Leicestershire can work with other local authorities in the region towards this objective .
24 On the whole , since most modern computers can work with complex numbers , ( i ) seems the most straightforward .
25 Notice that some are capable of non-interlaced operation which gives a virtually flicker free display but you also need a video card that can work with non-interlaced SVGA .
26 Uranium comes in two isotopes , U and U. It is U that releases energy ; but 99.28% of natural uranium is U. For this natural uranium to be made more potent it must be enriched in U , which means sorting through the uranium and discarding some of the U. A little enrichment — to a U content of 2–6% — is good enough for most reactors , though some can work with unenriched uranium and some research reactors use highly enriched uranium .
27 ( This can occur with other techniques . )
28 The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide .
29 It has to keep its own prices down so that it can compete with other major electricity suppliers .
30 There is increasingly a feeling that the larger the firm the better it can withstand recessionary periods and the more effectively it can compete with other firms ; and these two sentiments may succeed each other as , say , a regional grouping for mutual protection develops into a nationwide conglomerate for enhanced profits .
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