Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have now had time to reflect on whether the inherent constraints of working within the structure of a commission can appreciatively reduce the impact of a painting . |
| 2 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 3 | We can not dictate what our children will make of the Community , but we must leave them in a position where they can effectively influence the shape of Europe , and that Europe must be one in which we retain our distinct national identity . |
| 4 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 5 | Concessionary crownholds were also applicable to ‘ bodies which can effectively supervise the assignment of such houses ’ , such as housing associations . |
| 6 | By doing this you can effectively extend the scope of the language . |
| 7 | Rewriting inequalities such as ( 10.3 ) in this form shows that by allowing a constant term in the objective we can effectively make the goal zero for all objectives . |
| 8 | Ultimately only peers or experiment can effectively deny the wish to try a drug . |
| 9 | The study will be concerned not only with the social processes which provoke behaviour disorder , but will also test the hypothesis that improved social and family circumstances , and a positive school environment , can effectively reduce the risk of deviance . |
| 10 | Incineration , for example , can effectively reduce the volume of rubbish but still leaves the problem of non-combustible material ; covering with rocks is not an ideal solution because the rubbish may be uncovered by scavenging yaks , herders and climbers ; incarceration in glacier crevasses is not recommended because it is likely that the rubbish will ultimately reappear . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
| 12 | Random gain-and-loss of variants through such jumping mechanisms can eventually homogenise a family in all individuals . |
| 13 | So a poor diet can eventually have an effect on your hair condition . |
| 14 | Ape recruitment syndrome ( ARS ) is a primary cause of retarded company growth and can eventually turn an organization into a jungle ( if not a zoo ) . |
| 15 | However , shopping can eventually become an end in itself . ’ |
| 16 | In the last of an eight-part series , MICHAEL WILCOX show us how our knowledge of colour and colour types can vastly expand the palette |
| 17 | There is , however , a device that can vastly reduce the smell and the smoke if it 's used to extinguish the cigarette in place of the stub-filled ashtray . |
| 18 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 19 | And where does that leave us historians , who are not only being told that only blacks and whites , or Basques , or Croats , can properly understand the history of these respective groups , but to invent the sort of history that they want to ‘ understand ’ ? |
| 20 | We must know what these facts are in order that we can properly predict the enforcement of reparation , either specific or compensatory , in case of non-performance . |
| 21 | Yet he passes with such unerring accuracy and hunts every ball with such determination that his opponents can rarely claim a winner until the umpire calls the score . |
| 22 | Then provided the authorities control the supply of ‘ cash ’ by , say , open-market operations , it would seem that they can thereby control the creation of credit and hence deposits . |
| 23 | Thus , under certain circumstances intermediate good prices in the unintegrated sector can rise as a result of integration , and vertical merger can thereby cause a rise in final good prices . |
| 24 | Once more , people can successfully avoid the tax and the revenue is comparatively small — 2,000 million in 1990/1 . |
| 25 | In the case of ‘ ideal ’ noise-free experimental data , various simple algorithms , exploiting graph structures or tree-search techniques , can successfully order the library . |
| 26 | Having said this , the question still remains as to whether such records , particularly where associated with unfamiliar curricular approaches , can successfully challenge the status of external examination certificates in the eyes of the world at large , especially parents and employers . |
| 27 | It is my firm belief that if you can successfully run a group with elderly dementing people — you can run it with any client group . |
| 28 | So you can all do a summary , every single one of you , okay . |
| 29 | erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them . |
| 30 | I think we can all learn a thing or too from that oh er that sounded nice that that sounds even better , oh I 've cracked it right down the bloody middle |