Example sentences of "[adv] can [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of this single centre pilot study show that maintenance treatment with cisapride 10 mg twice daily can reduce the likelihood of duodenal ulcer relapse . |
| 2 | May I please ask you to give a little time to thinking how best you personally can assist the Society to raise enough funds before the end of this year to complete our Development Plan for 1988 ? |
| 3 | ‘ And there 's no way Connelly can trace the job back to us ? ’ |
| 4 | By pulling the hanging ropes tight , a person on the stance below can lock the abseil plate if control is lost . |
| 5 | On the other hand you can make sweeping changes or alter minute details and so can customise the program to cater for individual requirements . |
| 6 | They are more likely to enjoy the games themselves , and so can help the patient to have fun as he goes through the relearning process . |
| 7 | The school and its teachers alone can control the steps which produce quality . |
| 8 | And , because parliament alone can change the constitution , it has become a weapon that parliament exploits cynically to block reform . |
| 9 | It can capture the nuances of soft and sensitive voices ; it alone can convey the rapport five singers achieve in the bonded intimacy of chamber music-making . |
| 10 | Yet we saw in Chapter 1 that plants are the source of almost all life on Earth ; they alone can create the organic molecules which the animals consume . |
| 11 | If relearning to walk safely takes several months , going out in a wheelchair alone can prevent the patient from feeling too housebound and frustratingly dependent on other people for his mobility . |
| 12 | These results indicate that TCR- β is necessary to generate a thymus with the wild-type number of cells , and that it alone can lift the blockade imposed by the RAG-1 mutation in this respect . |
| 13 | Thus the requirement for mesenchyme seems to be associated with the early stages of thymopoiesis , whereas epithelial cells alone can support the later developmental stages , including those dependent on TCR-mediated interactions with MHC antigens in the thymic stroma . |
| 14 | The big six record companies are multinational , and thus can segment the world market into national ones . |
| 15 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 16 | Children with a mental age of 3 years and above can understand the principle and benefit from its use . |
| 17 | Eating refined carbohydrates such as those above can raise the blood cholesterol level , and is a possible cause of heart disease . |
| 18 | Designed for glide ratio rather than aerobatics , the paragliders nevertheless can teach the foil-kite designer something , just as we strongly suspect they in turn , had already learned from the Flexifoil . |
| 19 | Thereafter the infant experiments with cooing and babbling and soon can sense the ‘ meaning ’ of words and phrases from how they are spoken , and by the volume , intonation and so on . |
| 20 | And Brooks Johnson , Reynolds ' coach , said the ruling ‘ shows that the court system still can protect the underdog . ’ |
| 21 | And despite what Auden said , as a disbeliever I still can read the bible for the beauty of its prose . |
| 22 | If there is a problem up to that height , failing to lower the nose and abandon the launch promptly can leave the aircraft in a critical position , semi-stalled and with very little time or height to make a full recovery and a safe landing . |
| 23 | In a few instances the loss of someone close can propel the survivor into an overwhelming emotional whirlpool that can not be contained without expert help or hospitalization or treatment or a combination of all of these . |
| 24 | Everyone , especially London classes who have no particular stall , is asked to help as much as they possibly can to fill the stalls , not only the one with which their area is associated . |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend agree to tell the chairman of British Rail that he must do everything that he possibly can to improve the standard of service on that line for my constituents before 1995 ? |
| 26 | Subsequently , who ever can produce the cheapest , fastest part with the most capabilities to mimic other architectures will win out , and ‘ once one does it , the others will be forced to follow . ’ |
| 27 | It is this special knowledge , or gnosis , which hopefully can make the inside ethnography so different and illuminating . |
| 28 | And the ability to open several applications at once can confuse the inexperienced . |
| 29 | On the other hand , polarising the deuterons differently can force the plasma into pushing out alpha particles parallel to the magnetic field . |
| 30 | It may already be evident that the stylistics of embellishment has much in common with the stylistics of self-reference , as both can involve the idea of deviation from some kind of standard . |