Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's excellent for the size of car , conveniently shaped and the back seat splits or can be removed entirely . |
| 2 | decide whether or not they really need to be on that site for fourteen hours or can they do what they need to do in four ? |
| 3 | The absence of guys with the authority to tell people to either go-ahead with their plans or can them means nothing much is getting approved . |
| 4 | These beds can be used to produce salad crops and fresh herbs or can be used as nursery beds for self-raised perennials and shrubs until they 're sufficiently well-established to be planted out . |
| 5 | Furthermore , this jack can deliver two different pickup signals or can be adapted to provide on/off switching when used with battery-powered circuits . |
| 6 | The hood is designed to fit in with standard kitchen units or can be fitted on its own over a freestanding cooker and is available in white or brown . |
| 7 | The Foyer on the ground floor of the Chesham Building offers suitable space for small exhibitions and poster sessions or can be used for registration purposes . |
| 8 | Instead of seeking opportunities to come clean , being realistic and perceptive about when and to whom to make an ‘ advance ’ , and taking risks that can be recouped , self-doubt floods the whole question with anxiety , and replaces a balanced point of view with crude prejudices and images of disaster . |
| 9 | As many parasites occupy more than one environment during their life-cycles , they must possess suites of characteristics that can be expressed at the proper time . |
| 10 | The fabliaux do , however , maintain a number of prominent characteristics that can be called " realistic " . |
| 11 | Other complex aptitudes that can be measured in tests are : |
| 12 | Microcomputers can not store as much data as the larger computers nor can they process it as quickly . |
| 13 | The exact role of cortisol is unknown , but its importance can be deduced from the observation that animals that can not produce cortisol , due to injury for instance , are very vulnerable in emergencies . |
| 14 | A large and heterogeneous collection of organisms are grouped in the Protozoa , including all those animals that can lead an autonomous existence as a single cell . |
| 15 | Includes the history of the safari , methods of travelling , nine classic areas to visit and the animals that can be seen . |
| 16 | There are certain classes of English word combinations that can not be explained using existing syntactic or semantic theories . |
| 17 | There are certain classes of English word combinations that can not be explained using existing syntactic or semantic theories . |
| 18 | ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’ |
| 19 | You 've got two legs that can carry you there and two hands that can pour it into a glass . |
| 20 | The discussion so far has focused on the sociolinguistics of dialect-divergence and the methods that can be used in order to establish in-group norms of language use that are not previously part of the knowledge of the investigator . |
| 21 | Translated into the context of positive political decision-making , this can be shown to mean that the only voting methods that can guarantee the existence of an equilibrium under every possible pattern of individual preferences are dictatorial ( for a precise statement , see for example Wilson , 1970 , and Kramer , 1977b ) . |
| 22 | Compiling a directory of employers willing to employ Downs school leavers provides the framework for clarifying the feasibility and methods that can be used in a further , more substantial research contribution . |
| 23 | Charcoal will not adsorb nitrites , ammonia or nitrates , but is useful in removing chlorine , and substances like dyes and pesticides that can occur in untreated tapwater . |
| 24 | Once you own a detector , however , you can start to take an interest in invisible losses … losses that can only be found by detector owners . |
| 25 | However , obvious explanations are not always correct , and some studies carried out during the past couple of decades seem to suggest that , instead , we are born with an inherited knowledge of the signals that can indicate danger . |
| 26 | The system provides several different types of room racks with innovations and signals that can provide information for the receptionists ; for example , pockets can have a centre window with two-colour sliding signals which can be moved to show red when the room has been assigned , yellow when the room is ‘ on change ’ and clear when the room is ready for letting . |
| 27 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
| 28 | And she knows that the secret of laughter is shared experience — laughing together at disasters and embarrassments that can happen to us all . |
| 29 | Short of drastic action , to split up a major firm ( as in the AT&T case in the US ( Alcoa , United Shoe , AT&T , and IBM ) or to order divestment ( as in Supply of Beer , 1989 ) , the remedies that can be applied are invariably weak . |
| 30 | D' ya know for kids , they 're the only kids that can show , that can make me go bright red ! |