Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these factors are good , the words can surely look after themselves . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Words can also have different meaning according to the context in which they are used . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The alteration of stress on certain words can completely change the meaning of a phrase or sentence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The rather clumsy adaptations of his Masses , The Meane Mass and Small Devotion , to English words can hardly have been his own . |
| 12 | However , because ‘ newly-born ’ micelles can only arise at the expense of the preexisting ones ( there is a finite amount of water in the system that must be shared between all the micelles ) , the average radius of the micelles decreases . |
| 13 | Small objects like pennies , tablets , and screw caps can easily lodge in the mouthpiece of a metered dose inhaler and , when the inhaler is used , be forcefully expelled into the pharynx or larynx and inhaled into the bronchial tree . |
| 14 | But because the BBC film has not shown any examples of police violence , these de-contextualised images can only signify unprovoked violence by pickets . |
| 15 | With most United matches televised in Scandinavia , his fans can easily track of his progress . |
| 16 | Walkers can also extend the excursion by continuing from Heiligenschwendi downhill in a southerly direction on the edge of the woods to Oberhofen on the lakeside ( approximately 40 minutes ) . |
| 17 | Keeping your eye on court lists can also tell you something about the firms appearing and if a firm consistently acts for the plaintiff against health authorities you can be fairly sure that their specialism lies in medical negligence . |
| 18 | The words " and " and " or " in lists can also cause problems . |
| 19 | The PNP coordinator idea , whatever its problems and imperfections in practice , represents a vision of professional collaboration , development and decision making which schools can ill afford to abandon , least of all in the era of the National Curriculum . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly its appeal rests on a simple logic that those inside and outside schools can readily comprehend ; as such its influence should not be underestimated . |
| 21 | Elsewhere , it has been shown that the closure of village schools can often trigger a rapid decline in rural services ( Lee 1960 ) . |
| 22 | Conversely , bitterly opposed schools can sometimes look to a common ancestor . |
| 23 | Schools can only succeed when there is dialogue within the staffroom — a dialogue which leads to a broad agreement on the direction in which the school should move , both in the present and in the future . |
| 24 | It has been argued that it is the individual not the institution who is creative and that the schools can only adopt the ideas of individuals . |
| 25 | Schools can now apply for licences to record any television programme , not just educational broadcasts . |
| 26 | Many species of bats roost in enormous aggregations , in caves that must be a deafening babel of ultrasound and echoes , yet the bats can still fly rapidly about the cave , avoiding the walls and each other in total darkness . |
| 27 | These examples show that the value of what is at stake and the availability of alternative remedies can both have an effect on the likelihood that the courts will be asked to review particular government decisions . |
| 28 | More attention to auditory and visual needs , and the provision of appropriate aids and adaptations can also make a great difference to quality of life and confidence . |
| 29 | In this sort of book your hero will be something of an ordinary individual , a person with whom your readers can easily sympathise . |
| 30 | This not an invariable pattern for monographs , but readers can usually expect that the central figure of a book will receive prominence at the expense of any other artists . |