Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To calculate the size of gutter needed to cope with this amount of rain , allowance has to be made for the fact that the wind will tend to drive more rain on to the roof than would simply fall on the ca flat plan area . |
| 2 | The use of COMMUNITEL as a package linked to the use of Prestel and the development of information skills is well documented in the Houghton Regis School project and has been used by Prestel Education as publicity material The potential uses of such packages can be seen by examining the different ways in which school librarians and pupils can effectively present information in a novel and professional way . |
| 3 | But a judicious combination of methods can effectively control pests for years on end . |
| 4 | Fourth , Hargreaves recommends that there are general school policies which can effectively improve performance . |
| 5 | The only tasks where high success rates were obtained were those where the pupil can effectively treat decimals as whole numbers . |
| 6 | Clinical trials have shown nicotine replacement therapy is the only treatment which can effectively treat tobacco dependence . |
| 7 | Overshadowing ( the observation that the associative strength acquired by a target stimulus A is reduced when another event , B , is also present on reinforced trials ) and blocking ( the observation that prior reinforced training with B can effectively eliminate acquisition to A when AB trials are given ) are primary characteristics of conditioning , found in all training procedures and in almost all organisms capable of classical conditioning . |
| 8 | For example , if a local authority is apathetic about the European Community and the single market of 1992 , they can effectively stifle interest and ensure a low turn-Out for a European election . |
| 9 | With the benefit of fifteen years ’ experience and from the security of a university in Britain , it is possible to pronounce with considerable confidence upon what should have happened ; to comment owlishly on how untidy and illogical were the processes employed , how more information should have been spelt out with more precision , how more evaluation should have been undertaken sooner , how unreal were our expectations in terms of how quickly and how evenly changes can effectively take place . |
| 10 | We believe in fruitful dialogue and discussion , though we do not shirk necessary argument , and we provide courses and authoritative manuals for people who work in woods , manage our rivers and create new gravel pits which can eventually become havens for birds . |
| 11 | Which means that the computer is being used , as it should be , as a user management tool which can vastly improve personnel management effectiveness . |
| 12 | From DEC 's multi-colour , multi-font text widget , users can additionally edit text from right to left . |
| 13 | Unless you really attempt to measure all that there 's no way you can properly improve performance . |
| 14 | Considerable service is done by the taking of actions which resolve points of law , but public officials can rarely bring actions and the legal aid scheme will not support an action unless the case also passes the merits test . |
| 15 | Cells can rarely reverse tracks , but some treatments can push the cell from one track to an adjacent one . |
| 16 | But no system can wholly protect fools from their own folly or from the knavery of others , and the advantages of trying to do so as fully as possible have to be weighed against the disadvantages of imposing fetters on business conducted honestly and efficiently . |
| 17 | I 've done various things on my computer today and I can successfully make ASCII files . |
| 18 | In theory , film is the most powerful advertising medium , because it can successfully integrate words and sounds and pictures to achieve its effect . |
| 19 | So far only the pulsed dye laser produces parameters that approach the theoretical ideal , and even then it is at the lower limit of the ideal pulse duration ; Tan et al have shown that this laser can successfully treat children of any age with a negligible chance of scarring , and our experiences confirm their findings . |
| 20 | You can successfully use plants in all situations , allowing them to grow down and up the slope and trail over pergolas , trellis and fences . |
| 21 | Where appropriate the court can expressly prohibit examination or assessment or state that it shall not take place unless the court directs otherwise ( s38(7) ) . |
| 22 | I 'm sure we can all recall cases of being driven to distraction by blaring music and late night noise especially during the working week . |
| 23 | I think a lot will depend on how quickly we can all encourage North American tourists to come to Britain . |
| 24 | And that , of course , is why in the end , though we can all read Paradise Lost alike , and we can all in a certain sense respond to Paradise Lost alike , we must come to our final conclusions about the poem in terms of our own values . |
| 25 | And we can impose solutions on our on our users , you know , You users can all have P Cs , you can all have erm dumb terminals . |
| 26 | chip shop , we can all have fish and chip . |
| 27 | We should be looking to educate and train all people a lot more than we do at the moment where driving is concerned , so that from the very moment you pass your test you can feel confident , other people can feel confident and we can all have confidence on the road . |
| 28 | We can all ask questions later okay ? |
| 29 | Themes like " rites of passage " or " festivals " can so attract attention to sociological aspects of religion , that the impression is given to pupils that religion is about how people organize themselves and give meaning to their lives — that the essence of religion is manufactured by societies and by people . |
| 30 | A succession of avoidable mishaps can so sap morale and resources , that it becomes impossible to see the wood for the trees , and your energy is exhausted reacting to emergencies . |