Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite their differences , however , both initiatives are associated with an increasing interest in modular-based curriculum provision , and with forms of assessment which can take into account the wide range of outcomes they are designed to achieve . |
| 2 | By way of correction I can offer only the thought that the word comprimat in the third line of Musae Jovis is a jussive subjunctive ( ‘ let … crush ’ ) , not an indicative ( ‘ crushes ’ ) . |
| 3 | There are few restrictions on the type of support we can offer but the important feature is the idea ; once that is accepted we will help the researcher in whatever way may be appropriate to bring his idea to fruition . |
| 4 | When considering an offer of a job in the community it is worth asking a few questions about the day to day management of the service , and the kind of support you can expect to get from your colleagues . |
| 5 | Grief is not only a reaction , though , it is a process , so your bereaved parent will need your help through all its various stages of numbness , yearning , quiet or vocal distress , anxiety , depression and adjustment to her new situation ; and the way she behaves during the grief process will depend very much on her personality type , her previous life experiences and the strength of the tie that has been severed , as well as the amount of support you can give her . |
| 6 | ‘ So you need every bit of support you can get . |
| 7 | To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material . |
| 8 | When we defend ourselves too rigidly against threatening aspects of change we can precipitate the very situations we seek to avert . |
| 9 | With the advent of videodisc we can expect to see an increase in video training materials and information databases of various kinds . |
| 10 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 11 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 12 | If the Headmaster walks in and there 's a bit of chaos I can tell him why it 's a mess and it does n't bother me . |
| 13 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 14 | When SAVE was launched in 1975 , good photographs of endangered buildings were very scarce , but with today 's improved methods of printing we can use any reasonable snapshot we are sent . |
| 15 | Washing-up Liquid : If you ca n't get hold of bleach you can use diluted washing-up liquid instead . |
| 16 | If you are keeping several different types of aphid you can work out the figure for each type separately and compare them . |
| 17 | So of course nobody can describe ‘ god ’ to you . |
| 18 | But of course one can form one 's own relationship with one 's god or with mankind in general . |
| 19 | Of course no-one can guarantee anything . |
| 20 | performance and my sub team , of course they can clear more complaints than you 're sub teams , they 're getting the dross in . |
| 21 | And of course they can personalise them ca n't they ? |
| 22 | Yes , I mean that sort of action , of course they can take , and I think you 're referring to the letter that was in the article that Suzy Orbath wrote erm a couple of weeks ago in the Guardian . |
| 23 | If there are other children in the house , then of course they can come up and see mummy . |
| 24 | It is surprising to hear that Mill does n't hold this view that he thinks that erm the moral health of the citizens is of concern to the government and it actually gives , although he does n't seem to recognize this , this gives a hostage to fortune to his conservative critics because of course they can say , did say that liberalism was very damaging of er morality of the public and so we need a far more restrictive type of regime than Mill allows us . |
| 25 | Of course we can contest this kind of sexism by arguing about the accuracy of particular scientific findings . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course we can manage , ’ she said and grinning added , ‘ I 'm a big girl now . ’ |
| 27 | Of course we can start selling raffle tickets . |
| 28 | Okay well you 'll probably know erm that of course we can start people immediately if they were |
| 29 | ‘ Of course we can talk to them , ’ Don Mini said . |
| 30 | Of course we can talk about the standard of controversy in the seventeenth century and habits of erm arguing ad hominem more than , I suppose , would normally be acceptable today . |