Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The islanders will be hoping that former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga can put his wretched Pakistan tour form behind him ( he could manage only six runs in four Test innings ) , and that left-hander Sanath Jayasuriya can continue his good form in that same series ( 238 runs at 79.33 ) . |
| 2 | Wigan 's David Grindley can boost his chances of winning the European Cup 400 metres spot if he can produce a fast run tonight against Olympic bronze medallist Samson Kitur . |
| 3 | But Jeff Koons can afford it . |
| 4 | Those who have not yet had a surfeit of Monsieur Depardieu can see him in one of his period roles in the sumptuous Tout Les Matins Du Monde . |
| 5 | Miss Matlock can give you her address . ‘ |
| 6 | If you think I 'm letting go this prize gem I 've worked towards for all of my career , so that someone else on Verity magazine can put their name to it , you 've another — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If Allan Wells can do it , ’ British sprinters said to themselves , ‘ so can I. ’ The benchmark had been set . |
| 8 | The thing is , Alan Ayckbourn can make you laugh about it , can ‘ t he ? |
| 9 | If you would like more information about how CREDO Mid-Pay can release you from payroll drudgery , simply fill in the attached coupon and take or send it to your local Midland branch manager . |
| 10 | Mr Purple Trunks volleys the ball high in the air where Mr Red Trunks can smash it . |
| 11 | Frank Galbraith can tell you more . |
| 12 | ‘ Players like myself and skipper Alan McDonald can play our part by lending our experience to the young players coming through to form the next World Cup side . |
| 13 | Thus while Deryck Fox can celebrate his first call-up since 1986 , it is only with the knowledge that he will be discarded if Gregory is passed fit . |
| 14 | ( iii ) An occam process can offer its environment a choice of communications : its first step behaviour then depends on the choice made by the environment . |
| 15 | The basic Dijon process can admit plenty of variations . |
| 16 | This will be the most comprehensive reform package yet , if Mr MacSharry can get it past his commission colleagues later this month and adopted in the spring by farm ministers . |
| 17 | Finally the women of Buntong Tiga can stand it no longer — they take matters into their own hands . |
| 18 | That is , if NATO countries can narrow their differences over rules for arms and technology exports , whether to each other ( witness Germany 's arms embargo on Turkey in 1991 , after German armoured vehicles were used against rebel Kurds ) , or the outside world . |
| 19 | A Thames Valley Police spokesman said : ‘ We 're hoping Mr Hayden can tell us what happened leading up to the crash . ’ |
| 20 | It seems improbable , but perhaps the affable-looking Mr Choi can convince them one is needed . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Bodenland can tell you a story about little children and graves , ’ Shelley told her . |
| 22 | Your future husband , that 's up to you know who , but as for everything else The Savoy Group can arrange it . |
| 23 | The Dickens Fellowship can get it wrong . |
| 24 | Mr Parkinson can turn his back on all this but if he decides to confront it , road pricing is one of the few tools at his disposal . |
| 25 | If Mr Kinnock can lead his party this far , it seems at least possible that he can now turn himself outward , away from the party , and begin to project himself as a potential national leader . |
| 26 | The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside . |
| 27 | For his part , Mr Suharto can tell himself that the war will not be a lasting problem . |
| 28 | Mr Kingdon can draw anything , from a diagram of a skinned agwantibo to a magical collage of Namaqua flowers . |
| 29 | This might seem a somewhat unusual thing to do , but if Mr Cleese can resurrect his dead mother as frequently as he does his dead parrot then she will have a busy afterlife . |
| 30 | Existing CICS customers can use their investment in CICS Cobol programmers with no need for re-training and Unix programmers can develop CICS applications in C and use X Window or Motif functions to develop user interfaces . |