Example sentences of "can [verb] the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the stage at which they come to believe there is no way in which they can achieve the aim is the stage at which you need to re-examine the objective that the business has been set . |
| 2 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said : ‘ We can confirm the centre is under offer , but that 's as much as we can say at this stage . ’ |
| 4 | A full list of where you can use the card is given in the booklet ‘ Midland eurocheque Cash Machines in Europe ’ . |
| 5 | I mean , th that 's a typical kind of association , that , that it 's a link , you can see the link is in the word , but the effect is to , is to misdirect your attention . |
| 6 | Although there 's some , but these sort of pictures they always look darker than they actually are because you can see the sun is still pretty high up , so , I imagine that the surrounding scene was still in quite sunlight , but , looking straight into the sun , as we are here , albeit behind the clouds |
| 7 | Er the finishing end of the assembly track , and you can see the engine is almost in a completed state . |
| 8 | You can see the person is in shock , there 's no sign of any blood |
| 9 | I can see the land is in good heart , and I remember enough to know the extent of the estates . |
| 10 | It may show a significant improvement in which case you can conclude the child is learning . |
| 11 | And so , it some ways , it is : ‘ In any communication situation , the individual who can monopolize the communication is likely to have more power , and thus exert more influence . ’ |
| 12 | Anybody who can read the Latin is held by the poem : its hold , however , is in the language , the typical Horation speed — for want of a better word — the eloquent economy of phrase , the loading of the text with allusions and with metaphors overt and covert . |
| 13 | You can tell the buzzard is a soaring bird by its wing shape , which is very much the same as that of an eagle . |
| 14 | Such discounts can mean the price is many times lower for the branded drug than for the generic drug and consultants may be unaware of the price in the community . |
| 15 | But er , nobody else can come the church is full of family ! |
| 16 | Again , how well teachers can recall the booklet is significantly associated with positive attitudes towards its flexibility and effectiveness as a tool for SSE . |
| 17 | He anticipated that some might say that not all such information is a trade secret in ordinary parlance but if that were correct then " the class of information which can justify the restriction is wider and extends to some confidential information which would not ordinarily be called a trade secret " . |
| 18 | Women can check the device is in place by feeling for the IUD threads high in the vagina . |
| 19 | Altogether , then , we can say the tune is predictable , not in the sense that without knowing it we are sure exactly what is coming next but in the sense that when we hear the next phrase , our reaction is , ‘ yes , I thought something like that was coming ’ . |