Example sentences of "[noun] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mira can not enter Phillario 's world on the strength of her intellect , because her features are too plain ; although Corydon will not attack her appearance , he has no appreciation of her intellect since he believes that plays are wicked . |
| 2 | The history of Judaism provides an example of how an organised religion can completely fail to live up to its promises and yet be stubbornly adhered to , its followers being prepared to accept and support with blind acceptance , whatever excuses or explanations are offered for those failures by the hierarchy . |
| 3 | No particular religion can ever embody the perfection of Religion or lay claim to a monopoly of Truth . |
| 4 | But speed can also result in tragic errors , as was the case in 1972 when Palestinian terrorists took nine Israelis hostage at the Olympic Games in Munich . |
| 5 | If these factors are good , the words can surely look after themselves . |
| 6 | But as we have no words by which to recall those former sensations except the very word which we seek to define , or some other which , being exactly synonymous with it , requires definition as much , words can not unfold the signification of this class of names ; and we are obliged to make a direct appeal to the personal experience of the individual whom we address . |
| 7 | As we put our glasses on the tray he said , ‘ There are things that words can not explain ’ |
| 8 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 9 | ‘ Words can not express how I feel about this man . |
| 10 | ‘ Words can not express our gratitude . |
| 11 | Orthographically irregular words can not use the GPC route , and will fail by the analogy route if there is a mismatch between the regularity of the word and its associate ( if you do n't know how to pronounce " have " , you should n't try matching it with " save " ) . |
| 12 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 13 | In 1779 Middlesex petitioners demanded an investigation ‘ into the true cause of those misfortunes which have reduced this once powerful and flourishing empire to a state which words can not describe ’ . |
| 14 | Words can not describe my panic . |
| 15 | Words can not describe the kind of person who would do a thing like this . |
| 16 | Creole words can thus follow either of two routes into LE : ( 1 ) with their Creole pronunciation intact , as a badge of their ethnic origin and distinctness from Standard English words of the same form , or ( 2 ) in " anglicised " form , conforming to the pronunciation rules of LE . |
| 17 | This test ( Fenn 1979 ) was designed to determine whether a child who is able to understand single words can also understand the relationships which are expressed by different forms of word order . |
| 18 | Words can also have different meaning according to the context in which they are used . |
| 19 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 20 | Well , they have a fight erm they very rarely attack us , but they very frequently fight amongst themselves , and it 's usually over something that 's happened previously , but a few stupid words can just spark something that could be ignored if everything else was all right , but it an insult on top of hundreds of insults will just tip them over . |
| 21 | The alteration of stress on certain words can completely change the meaning of a phrase or sentence . |
| 22 | A statement from R U C headquarters tonight says that no words can fully convey the feeling of the force and all decent people at the manner of the murder . |
| 23 | In a new collection of his photographs — My Lithuania — from publishers Thames and Hudson ( £24.00 ) , he certainly admits to literary pretensions as a young man and his photographs can be seen as an attempt to capture the lives of fellow Lithuanians in the detail which only words can usually portray . |
| 24 | Their leader , whose own origins were inauspicious humanly speaking , was going to die a pretty ignoble death , but those who had gathered around him subsequently discovered that there were depths to experience and power that words can hardly explain . |
| 25 | The rather clumsy adaptations of his Masses , The Meane Mass and Small Devotion , to English words can hardly have been his own . |
| 26 | Local action can also preserve wildlife and habitats . |
| 27 | But , in fact , virtually no behavioural tendency which constitutes genuine action can just show up in a cultural context ‘ as itself ’ . |
| 28 | However , a contextually prominent action can not justify the use of a surface anaphor , such as I did , yesterday . |
| 29 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 30 | If he does not arrive the action can not proceed . |