Example sentences of "[noun prp] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rare in British industry for a designer to become the head of such a large business , and Conran can sometimes appear defensive about the unusual position in which he finds himself . |
| 2 | Certainly from the rapturous reception when he walked on court and the sympathetic response after a performance containing too many embarrassingly bad moments , Borg can rightly claim that people still want to see him play . |
| 3 | Word processors such as Microsoft Word , Samna IV , Wordcraft and WordPerfect can certainly drive page printers but that 's just about the limit of their desktop publishing capabilities . |
| 4 | yeah , I 'm going to go back into my bedroom and Neil can still use the ensuite shower cos he 's got the tip of the idea that he 's got to come in clothed and knock on the door cos last time I was in my bedroom he asked if he could use the shower , situation he 'd you know , and I 'd let him after all , it 's not as though my be , there 's a door between my bedroom and the |
| 5 | Because change occurs as a result of the social conflict resulting from the exploitation of the majority by the minority , Marx and Engels can confidently assert in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles ’ . |
| 6 | And Freud can again provide a useful starting point . |
| 7 | Even though Gundovald can never have said some of the things which Gregory attributes to him , the bishop of Tours must have had some reason for putting the words into his mouth . |
| 8 | Equally , many LEAs can now purchase systems for colleges and thus improve their own information base on the colleges ' ( Gibson and Wickham 1987:463 ) . |
| 9 | Granted this set of policies , Aëtius can scarcely have been well placed to gather the confederacy which kept Attila in check at the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 10 | Whilst they disagreed about the objects of their enthusiasm , they did n't take issue with the idea of being a fan , so Mireille can safely say about Edd the Duck : |
| 11 | Well David can always bring it home if there 's , it does n't get used . |
| 12 | Still , many of these Sids can surely afford such a flutter on the stockmarket : one quarter of the 11m own shares worth less than £500 — $875 or , more simply , in any currency , peanuts . |
| 13 | Use the accessory adaptor by itself with a wallpaper scraper and your Steamatic can also help take the hard work out of wallpaper stripping . |
| 14 | Lord Justice Scott can only invite witnesses to attend . |
| 15 | Of all the visits Scott can only recall one where the SSD would have delivered all eight key tasks in time for April regardless of the Support Force . |
| 16 | DRP is expressed in fetal and regenerating muscle and may play a similar role to dystrophin in early development , although it remains to be determined whether DRP can functionally replace dystrophin in adult tissue . |
| 17 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Arsenal can still win the title , and I can see Leeds stringing a set of results together which will suddenly put them back in contention . ’ |
| 19 | Aston Villa can seriously damage your health … |
| 20 | Jeff can only have three or four . |
| 21 | Andy can never resist an adventure . |
| 22 | Norton SysInfo can also get the processor type wrong if the processor is older than the program . |
| 23 | Levi can sometimes appear incapable of fiction , but it is no less apparent that everything he wrote was fiction . |
| 24 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 25 | Roche can never repeat his wonderful year of 1987 , when he won the Giro d'Italia , the Tour de France and the World Championship within four months . |
| 26 | But the brilliant Botha can also turn defence into attack with one raking right-foot kick to touch . |
| 27 | Secondly , CACI can specifically assess the catchment areas faced by any particular centre or retailer by analysing survey data , credit card data or other sources of customer information . |
| 28 | But anyone who has been in close contact with Woody can only support him . ’ |
| 29 | To encourage evaluations , VARs can currently buy a single AlphaWindow terminal with FacetTerm for a reduced price of $350 . |
| 30 | Didi can never tell the difference . ’ |