Example sentences of "[noun] can [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his concluding essay , Urwick wrote : The club can catch him , but can not discipline him , the Boys ' Brigade can discipline him to a small extent , but can not catch or keep him when he most needs it ; the voluntary evening school can do neither . |
| 2 | Also in Bludenz , BMX fans can sign-up for the week-long training camp . |
| 3 | Blake 's mathematical models predict that dolphins , killer whales and even some penguins can porpoise . |
| 4 | If a defendant can post bail and presents no physical threat to the community , he should be allowed to await trial at home . |
| 5 | There is a booking system for the use of the CD-ROMs and readers can book one hour sessions in advance , either in person or by telephone . |
| 6 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |
| 7 | Travelling is done on public transport — we have a college minibus which tutors can book for residentials , visits and regular timetabled activities , such as the Leisure Centre . |
| 8 | For a start , they own that flexible ‘ I ’ ( when I say ‘ I ’ you will want to know within a paragraph or two whether I mean Julian Barnes or someone invented ; a poet can shimmy between the two , getting credit for both deep feeling and objectivity ) . |
| 9 | It is by making use of this complexity of an extended observing participation I believe anthropology can edge beyond its contemporaries in the other social sciences , so that the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) urged us to use , takes on the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ necessary for an anthropology at home ( MacDonald 1987 : 120 ) where access to the social group or community studied is readily available to any demand for analytic reassessment . |
| 10 | The number of UK recycling centres has risen from 24 in 1988 to 320 , whilst 163 local authorities registered for aluminium can recycling programmes . |
| 11 | UK aluminium can recycling rates boosted |
| 12 | The proportion of aluminium cans recycled in the UK increased from 11 to 16 per cent during the first quarter of 1992 , according to figures released by the Aluminium Can Recycling Association . |
| 13 | Sweden ahead in aluminium can recycling |
| 14 | Only by restoring the confidence of these sectors can crime control by the police be successful , and the prerequisite of this is democratic accountability to local communities . |
| 15 | The Labour Department can cajole companies to break the ceiling themselves before someone does it for them . |
| 16 | Only by extending the application of safety counter-measures beyond tiny groups of houses and to large districts can safety be achieved across whole residential areas rather than in fragments of them . |
| 17 | Trash Can School 's name suggests that here is a most predictable Sympathy band with lotsa grease 'n' grunge 'n' rock'n'roll . |
| 18 | Trash Can School have , like Crawlspace , an urge to experiment and tinker with new toys . |
| 19 | Trash Can School are an astonishing accomplishment . |
| 20 | Readers in the Republic of Ireland can book by telephoning one of Butlin 's Dublin agents:B & I Line Tel : Dublin 778271 . |
| 21 | Since moving to New York Jacklin has celebrated the city 's trades and parades , crowds and entertainments in a series of pictures which has no match among contemporary American painters , although the city had captured the attention of the Ash Can School , Edward Hopper and , at the beginning of his career , Mark Rothko , whose subway depictions provide a point of comparison . |
| 22 | The veil of ordinary thinking drops away ; associations can surface from a deeper level . |
| 23 | Some help is given at the Driving Instructors ' Association test day , where approved instructors can road test vehicles brought along by manufacturers and importers . |
| 24 | The southern African countries can salt away their ivory stocks in the bank until the day trade resumes , and watch them increase in value . |
| 25 | ‘ The benefit now is that a child can institute proceedings without having to wait for somebody else to do it , ' said Mr Kidd . |
| 26 | With equal conviction a neighbouring headteacher might adopt quite a different approach — arguing that only by building a curriculum and a school day around the child can learning be effective and meaningful . |
| 27 | If there is space , bedside cupboards can bo either side of the bed . |
| 28 | And I think if if people like Thomson can sort of give him that sort of service he 's going to make life awfully difficult for the Forest de central defence . |
| 29 | There is virtually no difference between action and control samples in Ipswich in organic brain syndrome and possession of behavioural problems ; control sample clients appear older in Newham and more problematic in terms of informal care and in possession of behavioural problems , and in Ipswich in terms of indoor mobility ; only in Newham on OBS score and indoor mobility can action sample clients be seen as more problematic than the control samples . |
| 30 | In order to print out stitch patterns templates for instance , the program needs to know whether you have a punchcard or electronic machine and how many needles your machine can pattern over . |