Example sentences of "[noun] can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the creation of a formidable nuclear force , the Soviet homeland can no longer be held to ransom against Socialism 's expansion ; as the West 's capacity for direct intervention is blunted by ‘ the growing might of the Socialist camp ’ , the ideological struggle is not only safer , but free to intensify . |
| 2 | The history of Judaism provides an example of how an organised religion can completely fail to live up to its promises and yet be stubbornly adhered to , its followers being prepared to accept and support with blind acceptance , whatever excuses or explanations are offered for those failures by the hierarchy . |
| 3 | The dominant religion can also be mediated through law . |
| 4 | The appeal of liturgical monastic religion can also be seen from the fact that when Ethelwold in the 960s expelled the married clergy from the church of Winchester in favour of celibate monks , three of the former clergy , Eadsige , Wulfige , and Wilstan , returned as celibates to the new communal life . |
| 5 | No particular religion can ever embody the perfection of Religion or lay claim to a monopoly of Truth . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear , sweet love , once you have seen , the whole idea of religion can only be tawdry , pathetic and … wrong . |
| 7 | Religion can only be understood ‘ on the pattern of individual neurotic symptoms ’ . |
| 8 | But speed can also result in tragic errors , as was the case in 1972 when Palestinian terrorists took nine Israelis hostage at the Olympic Games in Munich . |
| 9 | Variations of load and friction torques with speed can also be taken into account . |
| 10 | Speed can therefore be changed from 1,100rpm for drilling to 400 for driving . |
| 11 | Perhaps the record companies should give us more live recordings , when such noise-free and moving performances can nowadays be taped successfully , and where at least there is continuity of expression , so often lost in piecemeal studio productions . |
| 12 | It doubles up branch and conditional registers and integer and floating point units and a version of the PowerPC , derived from the design , is expected to execute up to four instructions per cycle , although whether those kinds of superscalar performances can often be achieved in practice will depend on how well the compilers are optimised for the new internal architecture . |
| 13 | The parson 's words can surely be read as an indictment of women 's education which , though it improved through the period , generally failed to realize the intellectual potential of women . |
| 14 | If these factors are good , the words can surely look after themselves . |
| 15 | Creole words can thus follow either of two routes into LE : ( 1 ) with their Creole pronunciation intact , as a badge of their ethnic origin and distinctness from Standard English words of the same form , or ( 2 ) in " anglicised " form , conforming to the pronunciation rules of LE . |
| 16 | Words can also have different meaning according to the context in which they are used . |
| 17 | This test ( Fenn 1979 ) was designed to determine whether a child who is able to understand single words can also understand the relationships which are expressed by different forms of word order . |
| 18 | The meanings of words can also be represented as textual definitions within an ordinary dictionary , so a third question may therefore be : |
| 19 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 20 | Well , they have a fight erm they very rarely attack us , but they very frequently fight amongst themselves , and it 's usually over something that 's happened previously , but a few stupid words can just spark something that could be ignored if everything else was all right , but it an insult on top of hundreds of insults will just tip them over . |
| 21 | The alteration of stress on certain words can completely change the meaning of a phrase or sentence . |
| 22 | A statement from R U C headquarters tonight says that no words can fully convey the feeling of the force and all decent people at the manner of the murder . |
| 23 | In a new collection of his photographs — My Lithuania — from publishers Thames and Hudson ( £24.00 ) , he certainly admits to literary pretensions as a young man and his photographs can be seen as an attempt to capture the lives of fellow Lithuanians in the detail which only words can usually portray . |
| 24 | The definitions and expansions of various words can then be compared with this list to check for membership . |
| 25 | The unusual juxtaposition of these two words can only be a subconscious association in the author 's mind with the well-known carol , The Twelve Days of Christmas whose repetitive chorus ends , ‘ And a partridge in a pear-tree . ’ |
| 26 | While the freezing silences , heated exchanges and bitter words can only be imagined , the traumatic effect on the children is only too evident . |
| 27 | Their leader , whose own origins were inauspicious humanly speaking , was going to die a pretty ignoble death , but those who had gathered around him subsequently discovered that there were depths to experience and power that words can hardly explain . |
| 28 | The rather clumsy adaptations of his Masses , The Meane Mass and Small Devotion , to English words can hardly have been his own . |
| 29 | Those words can still be read in the Bodleian Library , a priceless association with one of Scotland 's greatest women . |
| 30 | Local action can also preserve wildlife and habitats . |