Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But specialist services can make only a fairly modest contribution to an overall plan for services in a multiracial society unless mainstream services are also radically overhauled in those areas with substantial ethnic populations . |
| 2 | Yeah well you see you can make quite a few nice little pounds for yourself if you can say to your friends I can undercut I wo n't chat while you get across here if you can say to your friends I can do it cheaper than the |
| 3 | In this new lab of his he can knock together a human being out of the unlikeliest odds and ends . |
| 4 | Organizations can absorb only a small number of people with these work goals . |
| 5 | But the early morning milkround means he can cover over a hundred miles a week in training … which makes the actual competition more bearable . |
| 6 | Using the bike and the pick-up stick I find that I can cover quite a large area of ground and take some very good exercise at the same time . ’ |
| 7 | There is usually a square grid of lines on the backing , which makes it easy to cut it in straight lines , and a small roll can cover quite a few items . |
| 8 | The change of context can influence only an excitatory association and thus the result of Fig. 4.6 , a loss of the CR , can be expected . |
| 9 | An approach to the material world — research — can yield both a theoretical alternative and a concrete rebuttal . |
| 10 | ‘ Flying planes can be dangerous ’ is the type-sentence of semantic ambiguity because it can yield both a passive and an active interpretation , and here a variation is used to demonstrate the danger of paying too much attention to public opinion . |
| 11 | These can include either a loss of control or a tendency to freeze in the face of attack . |
| 12 | Patients in Darlington can wait over a year just to get on a hospital waiting list , Labour 's candidate said this week . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For example , placing the blocks in the centre of a large room or out on the porch , instead of in their usual corner , can stimulate quite a different type of play . |
| 15 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 16 | The Committee can consider only a fraction of the instruments laid before Parliament . |
| 17 | And in the D I Y price list , they can buy here a little pr er trial pack . |
| 18 | With home recording equipment so comparatively cheap these days ( you can buy quite a workmanlike setup for the cost of a decent guitar ) these video manuals could be just the answer to a layman 's prayer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They are not very many , but if you look hard enough you can collect quite a range of species . |
| 21 | A difficulty is that psychology has narrow terms of reference which can give only a few useful results , for example on the question of illusion . |
| 22 | This chapter can give only a general survey , intended to place the various methods in some perspective . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many of the coaxial links in the ground today can carry only a handful of different channels at the same time . |
| 25 | The first assumption is that each cell can accommodate only a single reach or segment of a stream , and the stream can therefore move through each cell only once . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Agency laboratories can process only a certain number of samples at any given time and organize the taking of samples to produce a steady and predictable flow . |
| 28 | Some of these factors are beyond the control of the individual worker ; others are his own to decide ; and others represent situations where the individual can exert only a minor influence . |
| 29 | Oh they can do quite a lot of it . |
| 30 | And I think they can do quite a bit on that . |