Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent research has shown that the scrapie agent can live for several years when buried in soil . |
| 2 | Sports such as judo or fencing can provide for these needs beyond fitness . |
| 3 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 4 | Thus , the no-boundary proposal can account for all the complicated structure that we see around us . |
| 5 | A general expression to assess the potential improvement that access frequency loading can provide for any case in which A per cent of records account for B per cent of accesses is derived below . |
| 6 | One of the major areas of research in speech recognition concerns the ways in which general linguistic knowledge can compensate for such errorful or ambiguous acoustic input . |
| 7 | My wife can vouch for that , officers . |
| 8 | The Court has held in a recent case that the Commission can not ask leading questions which would require the undertaking concerned to admit an infringement of the competition rules , but that otherwise there is no right to silence : the Commission can ask for any information it requires to determine the extent of the infringement . |
| 9 | An authority can arrange for some or all of these services to be provided by voluntary organisations or the private sector . |
| 10 | no man can pay for that . |
| 11 | Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances , let alone attempt to enforce such legislation . |
| 12 | So the government can correct for this type of market failure by increasing aggregate demand , either by spending more itself or by getting the private sector to increase its spending , through tax cuts or an expansion in the money supply and lower interest rates . |
| 13 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 14 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 15 | If , for example , three known positions are input to the program before each session with the pantograph the software can compensate for any changes in the expected readings due to wear and tear or temperature . |
| 16 | If the chairman agrees to put an estimated minimum value of an unascertained debt , the claimant of such a debt can vote for that value ( r 6.93(3) ) . |
| 17 | ’ I ca n't see how any democratic member of Parliament can vote for such a sloppy bill , which would be the thin end of a very dangerous web . |
| 18 | If this is in the form of a loose box to which the cow can adapt for some days before calving , then there is inevitably less stress . |
| 19 | ‘ No money can compensate for that . ’ |
| 20 | These organs are , simple lungs and with their aid , the lungfish can survive for several months , even years . |
| 21 | What is useful is the idea that research and study in a particular field or discipline can proceed for many people for quite long periods in a relatively routine or normal way , without continually digging up the roots . |
| 22 | When appropriate , members of the family can pray for each other , not as a matter of form , but as a genuine response to Christ 's centrality and reality in the life of the family . |