Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such black holes could not be formed by gravitational collapse , because their masses are below the Chandrasekhar mass limit : stars of this low mass can support themselves against the force of gravity even when they have exhausted their nuclear fuel . |
| 2 | Any half-blind booby can see it makes no sense . |
| 3 | Now the important thing about the toxin is not so much that it can paralyse its victim , but that biologists can use it , and they can use it because it 's possible to label the toxin radioactively and then employ this to look at the distribution of receptors in patients with miocenia and characterise the receptors in other ways . |
| 4 | Playing of a Monday at an odd hour can break their rhythm . |
| 5 | OVERHEARD by a Hornsey reader at Walthamstow dog track : ‘ That geezer can do anything with food . |
| 6 | There are strict rules governing smoking : only those over 16 and with parental permission can do it . |
| 7 | Thus if two vehicles collide and neither driver can say what happened after ( and there is no corroborative evidence ) , the judge can not simply refuse to make any finding . |
| 8 | Oh that piece can go there ca n't it ? . |
| 9 | In this chapter I argue that the legislative principle is so much part of our political practice that no competent interpretation of that practice can ignore it . |
| 10 | The religious life of Charles and his contemporaries is not the main theme of this book , but no political study can ignore it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I have not attempted to use quantitative techniques or ( with one exception ) statistical analyses , believing that the close inspection of conversational data can tell us more about what " London Jamaican " really is than any quantitative approach . |
| 13 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 14 | Blake looked at the exasperated face of the Doctor , ' … but this computer can predict what I 'm going to do . |
| 15 | The extra return from our range of interest-earning accounts can help your cashflow and boost profits . |
| 16 | The Payroll operation is particularly sensitive , and although it would be desirable to have only one X-25 link for the organization , the demands of security , and reduction in cabling costs , suggest that an additional X-25 link be established in 1993/94 through one of the file-servers , so that any networked PC can use it for external communications . |
| 17 | to devise an administrative pattern and way of working in which different disciplines can make their own distinctive contributions to a common area of study ; |
| 18 | Your course and this hook can provide you with activities and ideas to guide your study , but it is you who have to do the learning . |
| 19 | Others think the ‘ elitist ’ element should be provided by the establishment of graduate schools as in the American system , much admired in Germany , by which the high flyers can continue their specialised research training after fairly general and not too demanding first degrees . |
| 20 | Some surfaces can make it bobble a bit , though not enough to put you off . |
| 21 | Whether you feel that your original decision was not very wise , or that you never really made a decision , or you just want to review your situation , this course can help you . |
| 22 | Some clubs can find themselves playing three to four times a week as they struggle to fulfil the fixture list . |
| 23 | The cost of a funeral or cremation is considerable and many people have the feeling that the dead person should have the very best , but this decision can put them in debt for some time to come . |
| 24 | This money can provide one ‘ medium class ’ satellite every 18 months . |
| 25 | Indeed , West German officials in Brussels find that the prospect of German unity can make it easier to extract concessions from Bonn : the words ‘ but minister , this will be taken as a sign of German nationalism ’ work wonders . |
| 26 | A disposition to incremental change can deflect one from considering or even comprehending wider and more fundamental problems . |
| 27 | Our sexual condition can help us to recognize how guarded we are , or how self-seeking , manipulative , or fearful we are , instead of being trusting , selfless , kindly , reverent and free in the bonds of love . |
| 28 | Substitute forms must be approved before the Inland Revenue can accept them . |
| 29 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 30 | I have been considering how we in British industry can help our Forces in the Gulf at this difficult time . |