Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Team-teaching alongside a knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleague can effectively take one to the next stage . |
| 2 | But it is debatable whether one can wholly understand it from the inside . |
| 3 | Put the rest of them , I mean , i , i , i , in the storage binder or you know , or you can obviously put them in the active binder if you want to do . |
| 4 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 5 | Unfortunately , there is no real solution to these difficulties and again we can only leave it to the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusion on the basis of the material presented . |
| 6 | The Leith-based Small , 19 , who reached the last 16 of the 1992 Embassy World Championship , said : ‘ This is my last event of the season , but I have still learned a great deal and I 'm sure it can only benefit me in the years to come . ’ |
| 7 | ( 110 , p.225 n.2 ) Possibly such claims were put forward even earlier , although one can only infer them from the appearance of closed crowns on the English coinage in the reign of Henry VII . |
| 8 | Shadows enable light to manifest itself and give it objective reality , just as wisdom can only manifest itself in the face of ignorance . |
| 9 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 10 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 11 | The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today . |
| 12 | We learned a great deal from those matches and this can only help us in the future , ’ he said . |
| 13 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
| 14 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |
| 15 | They are prone to the ‘ herd instinct ’ , and politicians can easily lead them by the nose . |
| 16 | However , you can generally predict which of the run-time errors are likely to occur and include a special " error handling " routine in your program to recover from them . |
| 17 | But surely you can just defrost it in the microwave ? |
| 18 | ‘ If you want to throw up , at least you can just do it over the side . ’ |
| 19 | Otherwise he can just give them with the bloody tellies or trying to buy them with the tellies and the dealers have a lovely time |
| 20 | Yeah , yeah so they wo n't , not , well they wo n't get so dirty , again with these you can just stick them in the wash |
| 21 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 22 | See you can just hear it in the earphones |
| 23 | If I can just say something about the management to start off with . |
| 24 | No , I mean , oven chips you can just put them on the tray and bung them in the oven . |
| 25 | if you can just fasten him in the back it 'll be smashing wo n't it ? |
| 26 | If you can just get me into the house without your mother seeing … ’ |
| 27 | In short , I 'll be looking at how you can best protect yourself in the event of your computer going wrong . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm afraid there 's no way I can possibly pay it at the moment . ’ |
| 29 | This means that customers who like the retailer 's own brand goods can quickly identify them on the shelves . |
| 30 | ‘ It is entirely up to you whether you can gradually raise yourself to the highest position of eminence ever achieved by a musician … whether you choose to leave this world having been ensnared by a skirt , forced to lie on straw and shut up with an attic-full of starving children , or whether , after a Christian life , you go full of satisfaction , honour and glory , your family well provided for , and your name revered by all . ’ |