Example sentences of "can [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In religious organizations reconciliation can persist for long periods of time . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most obvious use you can make of non-ELT materials on video is to introduce topics which are relevant to your students . |
| 3 | Generally , links with other services are poor and the contribution that doctors and nurses can make to specific treatment is entirely lost . |
| 4 | In this chapter , the discussion focuses on the contribution social policy can make to economic growth . |
| 5 | With these points in mind the next section will return to the contribution that liability rules can make to increased management efficiency . |
| 6 | Its role as a regulator and director of development has recently been enhanced , partly in reflection of the contribution it can make to encouraging sustainability . |
| 7 | Previous reports from the study group dealt with the contribution training can make to good safety performance , and the prediction f human error through the technique of ‘ human reliability assessment ’ . |
| 8 | There are , however , contributions that accountants can make to differentiated product strategies . |
| 9 | Perhaps the greatest contribution that fictional novels can make to human rights and changing attitudes is in giving us a timely reminder that all the statistics we 're constantly bombarded with actually constitute human lives , just as valuable as our own . |
| 10 | He points out that we need to distinguish between the contribution that research can make to policy and that which it can make to social work practice . |
| 11 | the contribution that the programme can make to realistic career expectations . |
| 12 | The CC programme has highlighted the vital contribution the private sector can make to urban regeneration . ’ |
| 13 | However , our discussion will concentrate on the contribution each can make to public sector accounting . |
| 14 | Compared with shifting coalitions of Independent councillors , party groupings can make for coherent policy planning and administration . |
| 15 | But it is arguable that the soundness of statements about wider matters such as authorial style relies ultimately on the statements we can make about particular texts . |
| 16 | ‘ Children will be the special target if you start with them you can build in good habits for later life . ’ |
| 17 | No doubt you can think of reflex behaviours you have learned in this way . |
| 18 | Everyone , is says , can think of black sheep of their acquaintance . |
| 19 | They 'll need to patch up their wounded defence and wounded soldiers , before they can think of premier league football next year . |
| 20 | What is , or is not , consistent with human dignity is obviously a value judgment , which can neither be confirmed nor refuted ; and , of course , one can think of other activities that could be construed as being inconsistent with human dignity , which are not criminalized . |
| 21 | And we can think of other people like Mother Theresa too , in the face of so much er you know what people have said to her is , you know , do n't you think that er what you 're doing is just a drop in the ocean ? |
| 22 | I am innovative and can think of new ways of using old materials , such as making toys from everyday household items |
| 23 | Erm perhaps you can think of daft things like think of someone kicking the kettle . |
| 24 | No doubt you can think of various acts which are crimes in this country but not in other countries ; and of behaviour which is against the criminal law of other societies but which is not criminal in Britain . |
| 25 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 26 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 27 | The larger the holding , the greater the surplus after family needs are met , and the more you can think of commercial enterprises as money-spinners . |
| 28 | I can think of huge chunks of life , important to me , in which information technology is irrelevant : sex , the arts , sport , food and drink , home decorating . |
| 29 | The articulation of the two together , in terms and in a context set by the values of the new youth culture , epitomizes the overall problematic proposed by this music-historical moment ; broadly speaking , we can think of romantic fantasy ‘ made young ’ , ‘ given flesh ’ , made to ‘ move ’ physically , while conversely an increased corporeal freedom is presented , in line with the experience of adolescent sexuality in Protestant bourgeois society , in a guarded , personalized , even Ironic manner . |
| 30 | You can think of solar radiation as consisting of a rain of tiny bullets moving outwards from the Sun at the speed of light . |