Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 2 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 3 | In their view party leaders and presidents can effectively shape a much broader span of decisions in an open way which advances the representative quality of government . |
| 4 | Overcoming labour 's disadvantages requires an organization which can effectively sustain a ‘ dialogue ’ between the grassroots members of the movement and its leadership . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
| 6 | Random gain-and-loss of variants through such jumping mechanisms can eventually homogenise a family in all individuals . |
| 7 | At present this can rarely detect a ΔT of less than with any precision , and the limit of accurate measurement of M n is in the region of 25 000 to 30 000 g mol -1 . |
| 8 | Yet he passes with such unerring accuracy and hunts every ball with such determination that his opponents can rarely claim a winner until the umpire calls the score . |
| 9 | The Created God can supply the human need to have an agreed authority to supply the justification for the way in which people are allowed by their fellows to behave , and can thereby become a rationalised replacement for the ‘ Oracles ’ of old . |
| 10 | Thus , under certain circumstances intermediate good prices in the unintegrated sector can rise as a result of integration , and vertical merger can thereby cause a rise in final good prices . |
| 11 | This is the deadly period when you can most expect a good take . |
| 12 | If we can successfully compare a present-day situation to an historic one then we can use hindsight to tell us what may happen next . |
| 13 | It is my firm belief that if you can successfully run a group with elderly dementing people — you can run it with any client group . |
| 14 | So you can all do a summary , every single one of you , okay . |
| 15 | erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them . |
| 16 | I think we can all learn a thing or too from that oh er that sounded nice that that sounds even better , oh I 've cracked it right down the bloody middle |
| 17 | Erm And you can all get a copy of this is you want to write to the water authority . |
| 18 | And an inefficient billing system can so irritate a client as to lead to the eventual loss of the account by the agency . |
| 19 | Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry |
| 20 | We can merely give a number of examples . |
| 21 | They seem to be a simple , happy-go-lucky folk who are content if they can merely catch a bus or two each day , and find a bit of a gap in the traffic to nip through , and survive till bedtime . |
| 22 | Strictly nocturnal predators like the eagle owls can entirely miss a common rodent species if that species is diurnal , and in these cases the prey assemblage has an unbalanced species composition compared with the small mammal community actually present . |
| 23 | A pixel addressable printer can obviously reproduce a bit mapped image , and page description formats have developed to allow this . |
| 24 | By interviewing people we can obviously obtain a great deal of information in a relatively short time . |
| 25 | ( iii ) The addition of non-standard do-it-yourself devices can obviously provide a wide range of spectacular additional facilities , but ( except in the unlikely event of the program designers and programmers being in a position to market the additional hardware device with the program ) the use of such devices is impractical for any program intended for use in a range of establishments . |
| 26 | These glittering occasions can obviously put a strain on any wardrobe , and the clear answer these days is to hire , rather than buy , a ballgown . |
| 27 | Comedy , in any case , is not necessarily optimistic , and it can tellingly present a tragic world — a point readily overlooked by those who confuse literary forms like tragedy with states of mind like a tragic view of life , as if over-obsequious to a terminology or eager to be confused by one . |
| 28 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 29 | We can perhaps draw a useful analogy with pharmaceutical products . |
| 30 | Yet I can perhaps perform a minimal interpretative function by putting together some of these ‘ mutual ’ sonnets which deal with the act of writing poetry , and in which Shakespeare seems more than usually sensitive to the weight of pronouns . |