Example sentences of "[coord] can [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the massively reproductive social orders of the feudal and medieval periods these elements are still evident , and can at times be clearly perceived as asymmetries of a class kind . |
| 2 | This lucid and candid prose , strong in the detail of a particular time and place , often ignores , and can on occasion seem to depart from , the sense of the literature it embodies . |
| 3 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 4 | The point we wish to make here should be an obvious one and can of course be made with respect to many of the other items which we have not italicised in the cited texts . |
| 5 | The 1s level binding energies of elements increase roughly as Z , the nuclear charge , and can of course only be used for elements lighter than that used in the X-ray source . |
| 6 | This will be called automatically on system shutdown ( provided you specify YES to site-specific shutdown procedures ) , and can of course also be used to shut down the LIFESPAN Processes with the VAX running . |
| 7 | Such tariff structures are widely used ( consider , for example , telephone charges ) and can in principle lead to outcomes superior to straightforward average cost pricing . |
| 8 | ( In Britain all books published are kept in copyright libraries such as the British Library in London , and can in principle be borrowed by your library , though in practice they are not available to everyone . ) |
| 9 | The result of this casual attitude is a grey area where the two signs are not clearly differentiated graphically and can in fact become synonymous . |
| 10 | The strong personal ties of affection and responsibility which bind families are intrinsically valuable , meeting basic needs for security and identity , but can at times be claustrophobic and destructive . |
| 11 | In defending the theory of the civilising process , Wouters argues that informalisation is not inimical to civilisation , but can in fact be integrated into the overall theory . |