Example sentences of "can [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An excellent method is to use one of the sponge filters which are operated by an air pump and can easily be regulated — plus the fry can graze upon the minute particles of food and organisms which colonise the sponge . |
| 2 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 3 | To get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 4 | Work out , with your child , a list of privileges the child can earn with tokens ( counters ) or accumulated points ( a notebook is necessary here ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Scouts can earn between ten or fifteen grand , with a company car thrown in . |
| 6 | Erm but they deal with the how much you can earn without affecting your pension . |
| 7 | By conservative estimates the Dark Destroyer can earn at least £1million in the next 12 months . |
| 8 | In such situations the ability to defend nature conservation resources is strengthened where the resource can earn at least a partial return from the market . |
| 9 | So the least , if fact I I 'm fairly safe in saying , that the least commission you can earn on an ad , providing it 's in our you know you 're taking it from our price system not discounted it , |
| 10 | Elite autonomy means simply that circumstances exist in which the political elites representing a given social group can bargain on behalf of ‘ their ’ communities without fearing that compromises will lead to their removal and the substitution of a new elite for the social group . |
| 11 | Its twenty five members , supported by the Milk Marketing Board , have effectively achieved a coup in that , as a collective they now aim to have some control over the prices they receive for their products as individuals and can bargain with the retailing giants , knowing they have the support of their fellow members . |
| 12 | ‘ One can not buy affection , ’ she said softly , ‘ any more than one can bargain with fate . ’ |
| 13 | Can sticking with the sort of the general non-strategic development in the countryside , would such a policy work , would it be better than E two as proposed , would it be worse , would it be weaker ? |
| 14 | ‘ Do you really think we can disappear into the blue ? ’ |
| 15 | Without radio play , a record can disappear without trace . |
| 16 | The fate of the DEA was symbolic of Wilson the supreme Whitehall technician — failure at every level , from the Cabinet command post to the interdepartmental bush , where drive , energy and strategy can disappear without trace . |
| 17 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 18 | We can laugh about it now , ca n't we , darling ? |
| 19 | We can laugh about it now . |
| 20 | Is there someone I can laugh with ? |
| 21 | The milder range in fact serves not to challenge but to define the limits of propriety ; they set a horizon beyond which " improper " linguistic use will not go , and the audience can laugh with relief at the reassurance that they will not be shocked , as well as at the impudence of these terms . |
| 22 | Now I am thirty-five years old , and married to a traditional observant Jew and living in one of London 's most Jewish areas , I can laugh at the mistaken ideas I had . |
| 23 | I have learned to trust people who can laugh at themselves . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's great , because we can laugh at ourselves here , ’ says one club regular . |
| 25 | who can laugh at themselves ( why not ? everyone else does ) |
| 26 | Tha can laugh at me — but dunna want ter ma'e me feel sma' ! |
| 27 | And the characters are so stupid you can laugh at them . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ So they can laugh at us when we fall flat on our noses . |
| 29 | We work well together , I respect him as a professional , I can laugh at his jokes and I can even accept that his genius probably entitles him to live by a set of standards most of us do n't even recognise as standards — but that 's it ! ’ |
| 30 | I think that a sense of humour is a very important quality ( besides honesty , loyalty etc ) because I believe that if you can laugh at things it makes life a whole lot easier . |