Example sentences of "can [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By arranging ‘ forward ( or sideways ) creep ’ gates between paddocks , calves or lambs can graze the best , cleanest grass ahead of their dams . |
| 2 | The Foundation 's broad survey , relating world-wide events to the condition and future of the North of England , attempts to show how the Northern home of the Industrial Revolution , which changed the course of civilisation , can earn a reflex benefit from the outside world : to suggest how it should see its continuing importance and the integrity of its peculiar contribution to that world , the value of its own inalienable strengths and their potential . |
| 3 | ‘ No , you 're supposed to abandon Masquerade just so I can earn a few thousand dollars . ’ |
| 4 | The idea that one can earn a living away from the smoke , perhaps by tele-commuting , are popularised by journalists . |
| 5 | BRITAIN 'S Johnny Herbert goes into the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend wondering if he can earn a place on the podium for the first time in 37 formula one races . |
| 6 | Some varieties are highly prized in Japan and Europe , and a fungus forager can earn a lucrative living . |
| 7 | Because it 's there 's if I 'm there for three weeks and they only want a score card done then my potential earnings er total earnings are that but I 'm there anyway so if I 'm getting both of them done then I can earn a lot more money . |
| 8 | Oh you can earn a lot more money certainly . |
| 9 | But the 25year-old , who can earn a reported £5,000 a day , fled barefoot and arrived later at the Speke home of her grandparents , Bill , 80 , and Irene , 72 . |
| 10 | They begin to feel that the job is there so that they can earn a living , rather than that they are doing the job itself ! |
| 11 | It is probably highly unlikely that a firm which earns , say , 20 per cent from one productive opportunity can earn the same return from all other productive opportunities . |
| 12 | The critical assumption in this model is that the risk-free hedge can earn the risk-free rate of return . |
| 13 | Between now and early October , shareholders can earn an annualised yield of about 11½ p.c . |
| 14 | This complex behaviour requires mechanisms to register the presence of prey or danger and to decide on and make the appropriate response , attacking or contracting into a blob — sensory cells , secretory cells , muscle cells and above all a network of electrically connected cells running right across its surface which can coordinate the hydra 's responses . |
| 15 | Spines can restrict the diffusion of Ca 2+ ( ref. 40 ) ; however , whether they do so in LTP is not known . |
| 16 | In this way the self-interested use of power can restrict the recruitment of talented individuals to highly rewarded positions . |
| 17 | There are many factors which can restrict the choice and ordering of themes in translation . |
| 18 | When plasmids coding for an endonuclease enter the E.coli C cells with an unmodified chromosome the K-modification is less effective on the unmethylated DNA [ 30 ] and the endonuclease can restrict the host chromosome [ 31 ] . |
| 19 | Where a restaurant certificate or a restricted hotel licence is being granted or transferred , if it appears to the licensing board that only a mid-day meal or an evening meal is being provided , it can restrict the permitted hours to the mid-day period , if only a mid-day meal is being provided , or to the evening period , if only an evening meal is being provided . |
| 20 | Although prima facie s343 TA 1988 will apply to a hive-down so as to preserve the transferor company 's carried-forward trading losses and capital allowances position , s343(4) can restrict the amount of the tax losses and allowances transferred , where the liabilities remaining with the transferor company exceed its remaining assets ( including the consideration for the hive-down of the trade ) . |
| 21 | You can decree an end to the Cold War , but not to the arms manufacturers like Boeing . |
| 22 | This is to help ensure nutritional balance in your diet and , in particular , to supply calcium , because dietary fibre can hinder the absorption of calcium to some degree . |
| 23 | A family member who is addicted to " fixing " others and being a caretaker for them can hinder the chances or primary sufferers finding progress or recovery for themselves . |
| 24 | Either of these can hinder an interview in a way which may be difficult to define after the event . |
| 25 | In essence he is arguing that strain in certain types of underground rock can generate an electric signal , which in turn can ionise a column of air above the rock . |
| 26 | Furthermore , a digital graph plotter can reproduce the whole visual image on paper , with pinpoint accuracy , in a minute or two . |
| 27 | No synthetic chemical or compound can reproduce the vibration or pattern of the ‘ stuff of life ’ . |
| 28 | Right to reproduce the wax model remains with the sculptor , but his hired hand can reproduce the bronze . |
| 29 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 30 | It is not possible to discover even one other sentential context in which the im — /zero alternation can reproduce the contrast we find with impertinent . |