Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he understand that planning permission was initially gained , with difficulty , for the building of motorways through areas of outstanding natural beauty and great environmental sensitivity , so many people would not be keen to see developers spending hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of pounds fighting in a long succession of inquiries so that they can build not just motorway service areas — possibly excluding the disabled and lorries — but hotels and other facilities that would never have received permission when the original planning consent was granted ? |
| 2 | Using exceptionally sharp teeth , the hippos can crunch up both dugout canoes and their occupants . |
| 3 | Cells can influence not only integrin expression but under specific circumstances may ‘ activate ’ previously inactive integrins by exposing the ligand binding region through a molecular switch mechanism associated with a conformational change in the integrin molecule itself . |
| 4 | Just as AIDS can affect not only people 's health but the whole social and economic infrastructure of a country , so too it requires a holistic response when trying to deal with it . |
| 5 | It can help to provide a picture of the typical development of language skills during childhood and adolescence , so that teachers can recognise more reliably disturbances that occur . |
| 6 | ( There are also pricing incentives to encourage you to buy all your software from one vendor : from Lotus , for example , you can buy not only spreadsheets but also word processing , electronic mail and graphics , in fact what Mr Ingram calls a complete office system . ) |
| 7 | At the same time the opinion is gaining currency that the transfer of resources to subsidise incomes or to create artificial jobs in areas with declining or uncompetitive economies can bring about neither equity or development . |
| 8 | The visionary can see not only utopias but he can find a goal that reconciles difference and towards which all men can strive and work . |
| 9 | The amount of time and energy staff need to spend in communicating ( and sometimes miscommunicating ) with each other comes over very strongly , and one can see how easily misunderstanding , resentment or perhaps even hostility can develop when individuals work in close proximity under pressure , even where channels of communication may seem open and well defined . |
| 10 | It is in that long preparation that we can see how profoundly secularisation has changed our civilisation . |
| 11 | Eruptions can occur through either fissures or vents , again depending on magma type . |
| 12 | Unless the husband is a violent man , the wife can dictate how often sex will take place . |
| 13 | A responsibility chart can indicate not only decisions and duties but also the information needed to discharge these duties ( Table 1 . |
| 14 | I estimate that once a future general practitioner enters medical school the nation ( NHS ) can write off almost £3m for training costs , salaries , and pension until his or her death . |
| 15 | ‘ You can come over tomorrow afternoon , if you want . |
| 16 | Yer can get off ter school now before yer late . ’ |
| 17 | There are lucky people who have jobs which can continue long past retirement age ; they will live longer as a result . |
| 18 | Her Majesty 's Government are doing all that they possibly can to cut off overland supplies of heroin , in particular , coming along the so-called Balkan route . |