Example sentences of "can [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |
| 32 | I can hardly stagger home . |
| 33 | You can usually route hot and cold supply pipes to wherever you want by running them underneath the floorboards , the bath or around the perimeter of the room , hiding them with a low box plinth , which could also be an ideal place to store bathroom bottles . |
| 34 | You can probably cursor down , yeah . |
| 35 | ‘ If you mix them , ’ said Tom , ‘ you can also git orange , green and brown . ’ |
| 36 | Obviously , the amount you choose to repay each month will determine how long it is going to take you to pay-off any borrowing on your FlexiLoan. but , you can also pay-in a lump sum at any time ( eg. when you receive a bonus from work ) to help reduce the amount outstanding , or to pay it off completely . |
| 37 | Ericsson says the PABX can also interwork with Digital Equipment Corp 's Computer Integrated Telephony interface . |
| 38 | You can also prebook your last night 's accommodation if you wish , but there will be a small administration fee . |
| 39 | Users can also group two low-speed lines as a single logical connection , so that the second line can be used for back-up or to increase overall packet throughout . |
| 40 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 41 | We can also book twin or double rooms in nearby houses for your sole use for a £55 supplement . |
| 42 | ‘ This is something Northern Ireland can really crow about , ’ he said . |
| 43 | Some of the biggest mistakes are made by people who think that the only horse worth buying is one of at least 16.2hh ; it 's a kind of snobbery than can often misfire . |
| 44 | Where the prey is shoaling fish , the schools of common , spinner and spotted dolphins who feed on them can often number in the hundreds , sometimes even thousands . |
| 45 | The introduction of new technology means that you can now book hostel accommodation in advance ; a pilot fax scheme is in operation for onward reservation between some hostels ( most hostels will also accept payment by credit card ) . |
| 46 | No government can simply hand over services for vulnerable groups to a completely unregulated private sector , because the political repercussions of any abuse might be too serious and the reputation of private market provision might be damaged . |
| 47 | Rather the contrary : in Britain a wastesite operator who finds it too expensive to meet the rules can simply hand in his licence and walk away from the site . |
| 48 | They can even talk-back to the television . |
| 49 | so , you , if you , we can even sort of go through your figures and hopefully make the price that we , you know , we show better or |
| 50 | ‘ You can even cheek your teachers and some of them just do n't do anything , you know . |
| 51 | It is completely parallel and can intelligently farm bits of itself and applications across multiple processors , or alternatively sit on just one . |
| 52 | It is completely parallel and can intelligently farm bits of itself and applications across multiple processors , or alternatively sit on just one . |
| 53 | Another advantage of being able to tie the punt to stakes so that it remains still is that you can then leger fish , which is otherwise impossible to do correctly due to the punt swinging around and giving false bites . |
| 54 | Now if you 're a majority party you can instruct officers to come up with a specially paid reduction pol you pay for the policy , so you can then structure the system or look at the service and come up with a reduction , come up with an expansion |
| 55 | The young programmer can then type SQUARE 10 or SQUARE 100 to produce squares of different sizes . |
| 56 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 57 | You can then book , confirm and finalise the details of your holiday on the spot . |
| 58 | No I do n't think either erm The whole emphasis of Homeworks is to learn things there which we can then bolt on to the main chain , I 'll be absolutely amazed if in fact Homeworks manages to drive anywhere near the amount of customers through it that M F I does or the problem we had in Yeovil is because it is a very rural area a is not having the M F I name above the door so no that is not the intention . |
| 59 | Even in a light wind , we can sometimes gauge direction by wetting a finger and sensing which side of the finger cools most quickly through evaporation of the water by the wind . |
| 60 | But when it comes to defending Smashing Pumpkins ' tendency to write eight-minute epics he makes an r'n'r analogy : ‘ You can either f— for four minutes or sometimes you f— for an hour . ’ |