Example sentences of "[adj] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hook proper can trace its pedigree to the wire ‘ bricoles ’ of the Bronze Age , with thorns and even spiny insect-legs included in its ancestry . |
| 2 | Anyone interested can see her at work at Wellington Country Park craft fayre at Easter . |
| 3 | I wonder if this can tell us anything useful about meeting situations which may cause stressful tension ? |
| 4 | This can enable them to be ‘ fast-tracked ’ through the system reducing their waiting time and enabling the medical staff to be directed to the more seriously ill . |
| 5 | But they also aim to address the full range of social influences on behaviour , and this can complicate them . |
| 6 | This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side . |
| 7 | This can deter your reference from answering . |
| 8 | If they are fortunate enough to become involved in an initiative which supports their progress into employment , this can lead them into another level of experience . |
| 9 | This can create its own peculiar problems , but such personal involvement can also increase the identification of the farm worker with his employer and with the farm . |
| 10 | This can create something of a dilemma for the anthropologist and for the discipline itself , for one of the tenets of social research is that it requires detachment . |
| 11 | It does this is er this can control your your er |
| 12 | Preliminary research suggests that this can improve their chances of recovery , and a four-year study with 2,500 patients is under way . |
| 13 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 14 | He said the RSSPCC would unconditionally oppose the programme ‘ on the simple principle that this can do nothing except prolong the distress and damage of the children , ’ regardless of the rights or wrongs of the authorities ' handling of the case . |
| 15 | For obvious reasons I 'm not telling exactly where , but anyone seeing this can award themselves ten Brownie points ! |
| 16 | This can insulate them from considering it in more political terms . |
| 17 | On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period . |
| 18 | This can make them difficult to remove from detectors with individual ‘ drop in ’ battery compartments . |
| 19 | Do not sit in the hottest bath that you can stand , because this can make you feel faint and you could pass out when you stand up . |
| 20 | this , well this can make you feel , ca n't it ? |
| 21 | This can make it very difficult to keep to the repayment plans , and the loss of home and fuel becomes more likely . |
| 22 | This can make it easier to arrive at the correct spot by varying the radius and steepness of the turn . |
| 23 | Some brushes are also angled and this can make it easier to reach some of the tooth surfaces , in the more difficult-to-reach places . |
| 24 | This can make it difficult for management to exercise control because orders tend to become more distorted as they pass through more layers ; 90 per cent compliance at each stage in the hierarchy implies less than 50 per cent compliance from one end to the other over seven stages ( see Williamson , 1975 , ch. 3 ) . |
| 25 | The nature of the choice of language is , of course , slightly different from that of most speaker/listeners : it is a more closed choice — ‘ dictated ’ by the clients , but this can make it more difficult , not less so , particularly since so much can depend on choosing appropriately and being able to do so both ways : clearly a community interpreter can not work brilliantly into one language and culture and poorly into the other . |
| 26 | This can make us fiercely independent and afraid to ask for what we need because we fear it will not be given . |
| 27 | This can make your fish very shy and retiring , as they have plenty of cover . |
| 28 | This can leave him in an uncomfortably exposed position , while denying Parliament any effective control . |
| 29 | All this can manifest itself in the simple relief of getting back to civilization , supermarket queues and all . |
| 30 | It 's scientifically proven that foods can make certain susceptible children very ill , and this can manifest itself in various ways , but one of the most common ways is that children behave badly ; they become aggressive and disturbed . |