Example sentences of "can [vb infin] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can spare very much trouble because there are times when you can say to someone , ‘ At this point , you are going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 2 | With a little knowledge you can make very healthy changes to your diet without having to alter radically your whole way of eating . |
| 3 | In aviaries around the outside of the Walled Garden , you will see a range of familiar domesticated cage birds — which , given informed care , can make very good garden aviary subjects . |
| 4 | However , there are several other designs that can make very attractive pictures , as you will see in the rest of the book . |
| 5 | Another option is to use various parts of a flower in their own right : centres with no petals can make very pretty flowers , and many multi-headed flowers , such as cow parsley , can be dismantled after pressing . |
| 6 | You ca n't build guitars with machines , but you can make very precise guitar parts . |
| 7 | Small tables for two can make very good use of the wasted space at the end of a corridor . |
| 8 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 9 | You ca n't build guitars with machines , but you can make very precise guitar parts . |
| 10 | You can make very specially shaped for |
| 11 | The resulting parchment is both very strong and very light and with it , paper wasps can build very big nests indeed . |
| 12 | You can think very hard where the player takes a breath . |
| 13 | I can explain very easily . |
| 14 | Postal questionnaires are cheap to administer , and can cover very large numbers of people . |
| 15 | From this data it can be seen that the central CpG dinucleotide can transit very easily to the B II state , losing less than 2 Kcal/mol after crossing a barrier of less than 5 Kcal/mol and causing only local structural changes ( see below ) . |
| 16 | This will avoid the need for a head movement to the index and can yield very marked savings . |
| 17 | Sometimes these less aggressive horses can behave very unexpectedly and take us by surprise . |
| 18 | People at all levels of the organization can accomplish very much more than they are asked to under contemporary conventions . |
| 19 | Costner can act very well , but it is his presence that really counts , a little like it did for James Stewart . |
| 20 | Since museums can display very few of the objects that they hold , most of the finds held by museums are in permanent storage . |
| 21 | Temperatures can fall very low during the night so some form of heating in the room where you sleep is advisable . |
| 22 | But one inventor thinks he has the answer — a building material made of straw that can withstand very high temperatures . |
| 23 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
| 24 | It can give very good sky or water effects especially when combined with a moon/sun or a cloud formation . |
| 25 | I say with caution on slip and punch lace , since doubling the width of slip can give very long messy floats with some patterns , while with punch lace it can give too many stitches , side by side , knitted only with the fine yarn . |
| 26 | Where data do exist on support between kin across households , this tends in effect to be limited to documenting the networks through which support flowed and the kind of support which was given , and can give very little direct evidence about the underlying structure of social relations which supported these exchanges . |
| 27 | Buchholz has shown that non-prime odd numbers can give very good results , but are not reliable unless they have no divisors less than about 19 . |
| 28 | These days the products , if applied as directed , can achieve very good results . |
| 29 | Some people can feel very intimidated and experience a temporary crisis of confidence , especially if they have been in employment which is entirely unrelated to nursing . |
| 30 | People can feel very strongly about an issue and yet still confront acute problems in mobilizing an interest group to advance their common interests . |