Example sentences of "can [verb] [is] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An illustration of the economic damage that flexible exchange rates can inflict is provided by the experience of the UK during 1979 – 81 . |
| 2 | But these are no reasons for not looking through the accounts , and making sure that all we can give is turned to real advantage . |
| 3 | ‘ We no longer live in a society which we can claim is founded on Christian belief , ’ said one , favouring instead an education which teaches children to accept people have fundamentally different beliefs which are neither wrong nor right . |
| 4 | In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading . |
| 5 | Critical viscosity separating thermal boundary layers that retain crystals from those from which the crystals can escape is shown as a function of temperature difference driving convection . |
| 6 | It may be that its functioning is impaired in various ways ; perhaps the extent to which it can suffer is impaired by the sensory deprivation . |
| 7 | The amount of information we can derive is increased by certain factors : the tendency of language to use certain sequences of sounds and not others , familiar sequences of words , systematic syntactic rules and the frame of expectation which surround an utterance . |