Example sentences of "and can [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These physical extremities are important for NATO bases , and can for various reasons prove attractive for tourists . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is supported by many scanner manufacturers , and can in some cases be produced from fax . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even a kind of guerrilla warfare is enjoyed and can in itself be life sustaining ( Mattinson and Sinclair , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Such tariff structures are widely used ( consider , for example , telephone charges ) and can in principle lead to outcomes superior to straightforward average cost pricing . |
| 17 | ( 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 . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |