Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lounging in bed long after waking can leave you feeling only half-awake all day . |
| 2 | The basis of the book is that we are unfulfilled because we 've grown too sophisticated for God , we 're lonely , we 're morally confused , and I think God is the answer for this , it fashions , religion fashions the kind of community in which you 're redeemed from loneliness , it gives you the sense that when you come close to the end of your life you do n't have to panic that you have wasted your life because religion can show you that you have made a difference to the world . |
| 3 | His rejection of the right of a religion to claim superiority for itself over other religions underlines his claim that no particular religion can embody what he calls the one , true and perfect Religion . |
| 4 | So said Freud , it 's no wonder that people believe in religion , because religion can provide you with a lot , with a lot of gratification , but the fundamental psychological explanation for this , says Freud , is that these feelings that religion gratifies in adult life , are transferences of feelings that we all had in infancy . |
| 5 | Should they break this code of conduct , their association can strike them from the register and ban them from practising medicine . |
| 6 | Our association can help anyone with debt problems with advice and support . |
| 7 | With three relatively easy home fixtures remaining , player-coach Ivan Whitfield is confident his side can make their top-eight target . |
| 8 | But Wilkinson is convinced his in-form side can do it . |
| 9 | They taught me what I still believe ( and no amount of misogyny or gynophobia or general bad behaviour on either side can shift me ) that though there is much that is different for lesbians and gay men , there is also much that is common . |
| 10 | WALES skipper Gareth Llewellyn hopes his side can reach their target of six wins out of six when they bring down the curtain on their African tour against the South African Barbarians in Windhoek today . |
| 11 | The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion . |
| 12 | Your horse can feel your mood and will act accordingly ! |
| 13 | I would also advise that a plain salt lick ( not one of the mineralised ones ) should always be available in the stable , so that the horse can help himself to salt as and when he needs it . |
| 14 | A musician can fool himself and say , ‘ Yeah , I 'm doing great because I 'm getting all these write-ups and my career seems to be looking good , ’ but what it boils down to is what you 're actually doing — whether or not you 're breaking any new ground in music . |
| 15 | Management and support skills like those Joseph strives to build are vital to our artistic future — any musician can tell you they 're not a strong point here . |
| 16 | Skipper Colin Jeffrey , another talented batsmen , is hoping Brigade can end their recent run of disappointing batting displays . |
| 17 | But a short labour can take its toll on the mother . |
| 18 | If I am wrong , Labour can prove it by helping the Local Government Finance Bill on to the statute book . |
| 19 | If the opposition can get their hands round the ball in a maul or ruck , they it will be a huge gain to them . |
| 20 | No they 're not no come on we 'll have the lid off that thank you , you can go down , mummy can get you some clothes to wear oh |
| 21 | You are always supervised by a guide and the coach driver , so no harm can befall you . |
| 22 | Unprotected penetrative sex is risky for a woman because if her partner has HIV , infected semen from his penis can enter her vagina or anus and the virus may be absorbed into her bloodstream that way . |
| 23 | Moreover , I shall not try to determine what kind of phenomenon consciousness is ; the task here is rather to see whether the machine analogy can give us a way of talking about it , whatever it is . |
| 24 | County court procedure may be simpler and , although there are some difficult aspects , the unrepresented litigant can handle it more easily than High Court procedure . |
| 25 | You need to know your enemy before you can make it your friend and yes , fear can become your friend . |
| 26 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 27 | He had read that acts of violence can leave their imprint on a place , a shadow that some can sense for centuries afterwards . |
| 28 | Because the Doom Diver can steer himself as he dives downwards , he can attempt to correct his flight path should he veer away from his target . |
| 29 | Almost any photograph can reveal something about its own time if read properly — even the boring cartes-de-visite portraits produced in their millions all over the world , offer evidence of contemporary fashions and attitudes . |
| 30 | The system is also designed so that when the text of an entry is retrieved from the Working-Set , a copy is written to a ( CMS ) security file before the lexicographer can edit it . |