Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These can include either a loss of control or a tendency to freeze in the face of attack . |
| 2 | Patients in Darlington can wait over a year just to get on a hospital waiting list , Labour 's candidate said this week . |
| 3 | A graphics display terminal is a high-resolution TV set and , like a TV set , it can display either a monochrome or a colour image . |
| 4 | The Committee can consider only a fraction of the instruments laid before Parliament . |
| 5 | The importing operation is very easy and you can specify just a range within a worksheet as well as an entire worksheet and can make the link to the source data active — so that when the data in your spreadsheet changes the chart in the slide is automatically updated . |
| 6 | They are not very many , but if you look hard enough you can collect quite a range of species . |
| 7 | The company expects to ship hundreds of thousands of Am486 parts this year and according to vice-president Robert McConnell , the company can expect about a 5% market share this year within its capacity limits , and that to boost market share it will have to find a partner . |
| 8 | Many of the coaxial links in the ground today can carry only a handful of different channels at the same time . |
| 9 | A curve is a good shape to choose if there are plenty of items that you wish to include in the picture , as it can accommodate quite a lot of material . |
| 10 | And I think they can do quite a bit on that . |
| 11 | Oh they can do quite a lot of it . |
| 12 | ’ Locally , they can do quite a lot of damage . |
| 13 | I think it 's , it really begins in the home , this , because mothers can do quite a lot in not educating their own sons to think of them as servants . |
| 14 | I think — it really begins in the home this because it 's — mothers can do quite a lot in not educating their own sons to think of them as servants . |
| 15 | Here I can sketch only a part of that answer — although , as might be expected after seven years , I can also now take it a little further . |
| 16 | Taping your own sound effects is another interesting part of video movie making : it can become almost a hobby in itself . |
| 17 | Now it 's quite likely that next time I come we can spend quite a bit of time doing this same thing again yeah cos there 's a lot in it there 's angles using a protractor adding things up to check they come to the total that the angles come to three sixty and there 's this thing about fractions there 's cancelling fractions and then there 's working with quite big numbers three hundred and sixty what 's two fifteenths of three hundred and sixty mm that 's quite hard . |
| 18 | You can spend quite a lot of time subsequently getting the machine configured just as you want it but at least you can relax in the knowledge that it all works and the difficult part of the upgrade is well and truly over . |
| 19 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 20 | With limited space , it is unavoidable that I can provide only a summary of the work of a very active Association , but I thought your readers would be interested to know that schools are not being neglected . |
| 21 | THE law stipulates that on school days people under the age of 16 can work only a maximum of two hours . |
| 22 | We can see here a process that Becker et al. |
| 23 | Unless and until we find a deterministic control , presumably deep inside the earth , I can see only a series of accidents , most of these accidents seem to be the collisions of continents on the earth 's surface . |
| 24 | Just I was just gon na ask you really to maybe just a change you know the difference between day and know , maybe you can see quite a difference just er |
| 25 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the British-Irish parliamentary body , on which we both have the honour to serve , at least provides a forum where British and Irish parliamentarians can meet twice a year ? |
| 26 | You can pass a mix of string an numeric parameters to the same procedure or function and a function can return either a string or numeric value , irrespective of the type of parameters passed to it . |
| 27 | ( This first turn can take quite a bit of time while the game gets under way ) . |
| 28 | The penalty is that you have to decide what sizes you want and prepare them in advance , a process that can take quite a time and uses up a considerable amount of disk space . |
| 29 | According to the report , CFCs can have both a warming and a cooling effect ( through ozone depletion ) on the atmosphere . |
| 30 | And since there 's something like seven thousand Standesamter in West Germany alone , you can have quite a job looking somebody up if you do n't know where to start . |