Example sentences of "[conj] can [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is as well for high-profile entrepreneurs to remember that they are always at some risk of being damned by association if they use structures that appear , or can with journalistic licence be made to appear , too close to those behind which fraudsters have hidden . |
| 2 | If Cawthorne has been accessing the research material of somebody like PKB — and who knows who else — then he knows in advance , or can at least have a damn good guess , which way the market-makers are going to go . |
| 3 | He thought with envy of the young locum doctor standing in for him at home , seeing his patients at this very moment , and then he thought of his ex-wife , and his ex-cat , which used to sleep on their bed , and then with interest and longing of flukes , the flukes of absorption that can at least put the unforgettable at some merciful remove . |
| 4 | A term created by a lease must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something that can at the time the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be ( Lace v Chantler [ 1944 ] KB 368 : lease " for the duration of the war " was void for uncertainty ) . |
| 5 | Back in 1983 , one exploit that can with reasonable certainty be attributed to Iraq was the attack in July on Iran 's small Nowruz offshore oilfield , causing a large crude-oil slick and heightened environmental concern around the Gulf . |
| 6 | THIS ‘ MOSTLY instrumental ’ band from Boston , Mass , have managed to wire together a record that can without hesitation be branded a unique adventure . |
| 7 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 8 | It is usually paid for via state-funded organisations and can at least be relied on even if it can be at times both economically and spiritually unrewarding . |
| 9 | In the massively reproductive social orders of the feudal and medieval periods these elements are still evident , and can at times be clearly perceived as asymmetries of a class kind . |
| 10 | This lucid and candid prose , strong in the detail of a particular time and place , often ignores , and can on occasion seem to depart from , the sense of the literature it embodies . |
| 11 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 12 | These physical extremities are important for NATO bases , and can for various reasons prove attractive for tourists . |
| 13 | The point we wish to make here should be an obvious one and can of course be made with respect to many of the other items which we have not italicised in the cited texts . |
| 14 | The 1s level binding energies of elements increase roughly as Z , the nuclear charge , and can of course only be used for elements lighter than that used in the X-ray source . |
| 15 | This will be called automatically on system shutdown ( provided you specify YES to site-specific shutdown procedures ) , and can of course also be used to shut down the LIFESPAN Processes with the VAX running . |
| 16 | Migration and fertility decline are alternative escapes from population pressure in societies sufficiently developed for mortality to be declining ( as in eighteenth century France ) and can to some extent substitute for each other ( Davis 1963 , Friedlander 1983 ) to relieve population pressure ( Woods and Smith 1983 ) . |
| 17 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 18 | It is supported by many scanner manufacturers , and can in some cases be produced from fax . |
| 19 | Discounting the capital cost of buying a group share , which can often rise in value and can in any case be easily sold on if you wish to leave the group , rates of £35 per flying hour on a Cessna 150 are fairly commonplace . |
| 20 | People can ‘ change their luck ’ , and can in a way say ‘ No ’ to divine Providence , though of course if they do they have to stand by the consequences of their decision . |
| 21 | Even a kind of guerrilla warfare is enjoyed and can in itself be life sustaining ( Mattinson and Sinclair , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | This important point is often ignored , and can in our view be taken further ; to suggest that in human society there are no natural and neutral phenomena . |
| 23 | Such tariff structures are widely used ( consider , for example , telephone charges ) and can in principle lead to outcomes superior to straightforward average cost pricing . |
| 24 | ( In Britain all books published are kept in copyright libraries such as the British Library in London , and can in principle be borrowed by your library , though in practice they are not available to everyone . ) |
| 25 | The result of this casual attitude is a grey area where the two signs are not clearly differentiated graphically and can in fact become synonymous . |
| 26 | one get , yeah , one gets up behind it and can in the back I suppose , but they go after they , and then , you think as soon as you pull out , you 're gon na get all that , yeah , he 's gon na get all that , but they do n't do they ? |
| 27 | The strong personal ties of affection and responsibility which bind families are intrinsically valuable , meeting basic needs for security and identity , but can at times be claustrophobic and destructive . |
| 28 | The first is that it increasingly appears that LTP-like phenomena are not restricted to the hippocampus , but can under appropriate circumstances be shown in many other regions of the brain , including especially the cerebral cortex as Lynn Bindman in London , and Lyosha Voronin , in Moscow , have shown . |
| 29 | The ability to learn such social skills may come slowly , but can in most cases be taught so that the child learns to behave in a socially acceptable fashion even though they may have limited academic ability . |
| 30 | In defending the theory of the civilising process , Wouters argues that informalisation is not inimical to civilisation , but can in fact be integrated into the overall theory . |