Example sentences of "[conj] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’ |
| 2 | To draw unemployment benefit in an off-season a seasonal worker must show he has already had , or can reasonably expect to obtain , a substantial amount of employment during the current off-season — normally at least one quarter of that period . |
| 3 | They should be reminded too that canned baked beans in tomato sauce are highly nutritious and can be a quick and convenient addition to many main meals or can even make quite a good meal on their own if they are served on buttered toast . |
| 4 | Occasionally , you will meet a brute that refuses to pull away , or can even break or lift the root . |
| 5 | Postwar economic growth , especially in the past decade of celebration of free enterprise and markets , has generated a more or less universal acquisitiveness , and it is far from evident that in circumstances in which the desires which have been aroused can not be gratified , or their pursuit breeds disillusionment , socialism , historically grounded in the labour movement , does or can now provide a new direction . |
| 6 | This is another programme in which we explore the boundaries of science , limits to what we know , or can possibly discover . |
| 7 | A ward of court can not be taken out of the jurisdiction of the court , nor can any change be made in his or her position in life , without leave of the court . |
| 8 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |
| 9 | In 1703 Bishop Nicholson records a Churchwarden 's remark characteristic of the sturdy independence of Dalesmen , ‘ Except the Vicar and the Schoolmaster , we have not a Gentleman among us , nor can any remember the time we had a Beggar . ’ |
| 10 | That does not equate universities with polytechnic colleges nor university education with technical training , nor can any overlap between the two negate the essential difference in kind between them . |
| 11 | In any case , no piece made before 1945 may be legally exported , nor can any work of art by a deceased artist . |
| 12 | The problem is to identify those cases that can most benefit from a further investigation . |
| 13 | First , a process that can automatically choose to diverge must be identified with |
| 14 | I repeat that there is no system that can automatically preclude evil people getting into positions of power over vulnerable people . |
| 15 | The Redwood Shores , California-based company claims DDS/Patrol is an object-oriented systems management tool that can automatically monitor and management distributed applications , databases and systems . |
| 16 | The Redwood Shores , California-based company claims DDS/Patrol is an object-oriented systems management tool that can automatically monitor and management distributed applications , databases and systems . |
| 17 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 18 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 19 | But I think that everyone concerned needs to realise that this is not a process without cost , nor one that can magically happen overnight . |
| 20 | Another chemist , Robert Bergman from the University of California in Berkeley , has made an organic derivative of iridium that can also split a carbon-hydrogen bond . |
| 21 | Alternatively , try to find the sort of rectangular table that can also double as a long desk or work table when required . |
| 22 | It implements a multiple-instruction , multiple-data architecture that can also emulate single-instruction , multiple-data and multiple computer MIMD architectures Cray said . |
| 23 | Most important of all , he will have good liaison with the local social services department , who can draw all the threads together and link his elderly patients with the organisations that can best meet their needs . |
| 24 | The kind of institution that can best provide the protection depends on the nature of the transaction , an issue discussed later . |
| 25 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 26 | In the year 1912 the Polish mathematician , W. Sierpinski , constructed a limiting curve that can completely fill a square . |
| 27 | Surfaces that come into contact with hands , such as light switches , telephone handsets , door handles , drawers , refrigerator panels and machine controls , may build up levels of contamination that can temporarily overcome skin defences and so cause the transfer of potentially harmful microorganisms to food . |
| 28 | Devices are now available that can sequentially deliver antitachycardia pacing , low-energy synchronised cardioversion , and high-energy defibrillation in a tiered fashion . |
| 29 | There is , however , a device that can vastly reduce the smell and the smoke if it 's used to extinguish the cigarette in place of the stub-filled ashtray . |
| 30 | The intention of the partners will be clearer , and some of the difficulties that can otherwise arise may thus be avoided . |