Example sentences of "[art] [noun] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply from examining the bones the experts can tell us that she suffered from childhood illness and spent a lot of her life sitting on her heels using her left hand , perhaps grinding corn . |
| 2 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 3 | And , lastly , the definition of rules for housework establishes a mechanism whereby the housewife can reward herself for doing it . |
| 4 | Former Middlesbrough defender Owen McGee was the pick of the new boys and McHale must be hoping the trialist can repeat his debut display . |
| 5 | The Pentagon can clear anything they want . |
| 6 | Once again the change can have nothing to do with making the chapter more acceptable . |
| 7 | Because the writer can do what John Dickson Carr advocated : think backwards . |
| 8 | the back foot on the board can draw it towards you . |
| 9 | The first level is something that the climbers can do something about , and that is removing their rubbish . |
| 10 | The RAF can do it all and it is their job ( e ) Other types of ships should be drastically reduced |
| 11 | The cinema can show us eyes being gouged out , heads blown off , and aliens bursting from John Hurt 's entrails : when it comes to counterfeiting the mechanics of sexual congress , however , it admits defeat ; nor , in general , are performers willing or able to remedy this deficiency . |
| 12 | The shareholders can vote him off the board themselves . |
| 13 | I therefore told the story of how the milk can got its dent . |
| 14 | If the comparison is successful , a program-accessible register is loaded with the address of the compared words ; alternatively , A and L could be retained in program-accessible registers throughout the process , so that the programmer can interrogate them for the result of the search . |
| 15 | Ideally , it is a major feature of this type of product , and one for which the advertised brand is actually superior : but it could be some general characteristic which , by getting in first and appropriating it to itself , the brand can make its own . |
| 16 | Naive users sometimes assume that the computer can tell them anything that is worth knowing ; to quote from Erickson and Nosanchuk , ‘ when we plug in the computer we often ‘ unplug ’ our brains ' ( 1977 : 28 ) . |
| 17 | Programs written using high-level languages , such as C , must be translated using a compiler into machine code so that the computer can understand them . |
| 18 | The birds can spot their targets from half a mile ( 0.8 km ) . |
| 19 | The company making the acquisition will need to decide : how the contract can protect it if the equipment or software fails to perform as it should ; about maintenance and training ; what to do if the software or hardware infringes a third party 's copyright or patent . |
| 20 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 21 | And at temperatures of 40°C plus , the insect can orient itself parallel to the Sun 's rays to reduce the amount of body surface facing the Sun . |
| 22 | Normally , New Scientist heralds the beginning of April with a few jeux d'esprit , but this year it was subdued , predicting only that the world would come to an end on 5 April , a prophecy based on meat consumption figures , though it was hard to make up the mind about an item called ‘ What the woodlouse can teach us about marriage ’ . |
| 23 | The position under this Act is that the buyer can recover his money but the court can deduct from that a sum towards expenses incurred by the seller in performing the contract . |
| 24 | Finally , it is therefore the more difficult to see how the proposals can have anything to do with genuine industrial democracy , that is to say , with the accountability of the board of directors as a corporate whole to the individual men and women who constitute the workforce and who would have the ultimate power to replace an unsatisfactory board . |
| 25 | Few of us are lucky enough to have escaped the shattering sensation of pure terror generated by nightmares : the experience can haunt our every action for days afterwards . |
| 26 | Kerr deplores the invasion of privacy in small houses , where visitors rub shoulders with the tradespeople , where the sounds of the scullery can be heard in the dining-room , where the kitchen can hear what goes on in the drawing-room , and the dresser or cooking-range may be seen in the kitchen . |
| 27 | Adventure holidays are increasingly popular and the brave can test their physical and mental endurance in a number of ways from outward-bound courses where the participants usually spend the last few days of their ‘ holiday ’ building themselves a shelter in a sodden landscape and living off nature , to dog-sledging across the Arctic Circle and learning how to build an igloo on the way . |
| 28 | In any organisation where the personnel can relate themselves and their role to clearly defined objectives , they will be motivated by team effort . |
| 29 | In such a situation the male can take his frustrations out on his mate , as digging is part of the natural behaviour of the fish , and it makes them feel more secure . |
| 30 | Thus , the university can make its most fruitful contribution to democracy through the teaching of an English which places the student in direct touch with the values embodied in the national literature . |