Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] can [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the boat race tomorrow … and with sixteen wins in seventeen years … and six victories in a row the Oxford boat club can claim to be the most successful team in British sport … so how do they do it … what 's the secret of their success … we can reveal all tonight its down to Heather and Bert … and a piano player called Kate … they 're all in our Friday Feature |
| 2 | If the parent bird can appear to be at some grave physical disadvantage , the killer will find the tempting proximity of the vulnerable adult irresistible and its concentration on the location of the nest-site can be broken . |
| 3 | An ordinary NHS patient can ask to be given a greater degree of privacy in a separate room if it is not needed on medical grounds for other patients , and can pay for the privilege . |
| 4 | The most such a multi-modal transport document can attest to is that someone in a position to effect a future ocean shipment is in charge of the cargo and will be responsible for effecting ocean shipment . |
| 5 | ideas of efficiency , numerical performance indicators and managerial top-down decision making can seem to be justified in terms of their ‘ rationality ’ . |
| 6 | The game environment can prove to be useful in providing the vehicle for this purpose . |
| 7 | The informatics graduate can expect to be at the forefront of the development of new software products and tools or to follow a career in developing technology applications for a range of areas — from industry to the public sector and from health care to agriculture . |
| 8 | More than twenty years ago , the archivist Emmison tried to convey to teachers what he felt to be the special qualities of an original document : The original document is in a sense more real than any text book can hope to be ; for the writer , though he may have been misguided , biased or mistaken , at least lived through the events of which he speaks ; and whatever his shortcomings , he was in certain respects better informed about the times and conditions in which he lived than is the interpreter writing two or three hundred years afterwards . |
| 9 | In summary , it seems rather unlikely that forecasts taking the mid-1980s as a base year can claim to be measuring demand accurately . |