Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
| 2 | Smith said : ‘ We have players all over the park who can score goals for us . |
| 3 | But if we go in the park she can run more , or in the summer we go down by the old railway track do n't we ? |
| 4 | The government , already facing labour unrest and mounting inflation , needs all the sympathy it can get , especially if as some believe , it intends calling an early general election . |
| 5 | When you play the guitar you can understand why the Bass VI was the victim of a life-long identity crisis . |
| 6 | Fashion and artistic imagination spread a thick veil of Celtic fancy over the romances ; but through the veil we can discern the real human problems of Wolfram and his like ; in this respect they follow in the footsteps of the twelfth-century humanists , Abelard , Heloise and Ailred . |
| 7 | That 's the one that 's the one danger that I see , that instead of being led by the turnover of the product , we 're being led by the funding we can obtain which I think is a is a weakness in the system . |
| 8 | For Clare Short and Jo Richardson , this is undoubtedly accentuated by the support they can give each other in a world where all the benchmarks are male , where rivalry is high and trust low . |
| 9 | Instead , the teacher reinforces the responsibility which she wants the children to exercise over their own learning , and the support they can offer to one another without needing to turn to her for confirmation . |
| 10 | Runners are generally suffering at this stage ( 23.5 6o 24.5 miles ) and will need all the support they can get . |
| 11 | But George — who is donating profits from the record to AIDS charity Red Hot And Dance — says : ‘ The many people around the world who will benefit from the Red Hot And Dance project need all the support we can give them . |
| 12 | Molly is remarkably cheerful and optimistic and she deserves and will undoubtedly receive all the support we can give her . |
| 13 | ‘ We need all the support we can get , ’ Miss Harker went on earnestly . |
| 14 | But then Dolly needs all the support she can get ( boom boom ) |
| 15 | The financial needs of the family , the demands of a career and the needs of a father in his own right directly affect his availability to his children and have an indirect effect through the support he can offer his partner . |
| 16 | No amount is too small for all the women and children who desperately need the support you can give them . |
| 17 | After that , the dust will begin to settle and you must settle your differences , too , since you will need all the support you can muster to make your mark at work or make life more financially secure . |
| 18 | ‘ And he has all the support I can give him to go for it next year . ’ |
| 19 | Please pray for me as I 'll need all the support I can get . |
| 20 | Science is entitled to all the support it can get , to all it needs . |
| 21 | The latter is established partly because of the expertise it can develop , and this expertise is not related solely to fact finding . |
| 22 | Before ( and after ) moving your counter around the board you can change your team formation and swap players around to get defence , midfield and attack ratings to match your opponents ' . |
| 23 | By deliberately pulling in the sail too tight over the back of the board you can try sailing sideways or even backwards . |
| 24 | Fig15 If you can not get back and the wind is very light , by carefully balancing the rig on the back of the board you can lie down on the front and paddle back |
| 25 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 26 | As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead . |
| 27 | Because the money they can get for this mixed paper must be a pittance . |
| 28 | See money 's all right they probably love the money you can bring in but if they do n't see you to spend it or to share it . |
| 29 | ‘ Think of the money you can make ! |
| 30 | THE MONEY YOU CAN GET |