Example sentences of "can [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMPUTERVISION CHIEF SHIELDS HAS TO CARRY THE CAN FOR POOR PERFORMANCE |
| 2 | Find out everything you can about nuclear energy . |
| 3 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 4 | He in turn comforts them as best he can with modern medicine . |
| 5 | Back in 1983 , one exploit that can with reasonable certainty be attributed to Iraq was the attack in July on Iran 's small Nowruz offshore oilfield , causing a large crude-oil slick and heightened environmental concern around the Gulf . |
| 6 | ‘ … one who has seen many such cases can with tolerable certainty tell , without more minute examination what the nature of the complaint is. ’ — W. Cumming , London Medical Gazette , 1849 . |
| 7 | While it has the advantage of putting slurry at plant root level where it can be used quickly , it can not bury the same volume of slurry or reduce the smell as much as it can with deep injection . |
| 8 | But it is as well for high-profile entrepreneurs to remember that they are always at some risk of being damned by association if they use structures that appear , or can with journalistic licence be made to appear , too close to those behind which fraudsters have hidden . |
| 9 | Well you can with double glazing , some |
| 10 | However , the finer points of such subjects as tort can with relative safety be left to repose in his books of reference . |
| 11 | Since any comprehensive peace implies a reduction of influence by , and local dependency on , the superpowers , it can not be assumed that either superpower has a strong interest in a genuine peace , unless it is able to derive greater advantage from peace than it can from continued conflict . |
| 12 | To make an aluminium can from recycled material uses only 5% of the energy required to make a ‘ new ’ can . |
| 13 | There are many such questions which all those in contact with children can pose and which the psychologist can in due course be expected to answer . |
| 14 | The new congregation has a heaven sent opportunity to begin again to do all it can in public worship to present Christ in such a way that those who do n't know him can find him . |
| 15 | In addition to quartz , which can at prolonged weathering in most environments , the mineralogical composition of the weathering mantle includes a range of secondary minerals ( Table 6.3 ) . |
| 16 | They do this by modifying the NTSC colour signal to mimic PAL , and relying on the fact that many modern PAL TV sets can by good fortune cope with 525 lines and a 60Hz field rate . |
| 17 | However , how can this phenomenon be illuminated by means of the metaphor of levels of programming language , on which view the ‘ lower activities ’ are inscrutable at the ‘ higher level ’ , given that , after a road accident , say , I can by conscious effort retrain myself to walk properly ? |