Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [pron] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it even happens where the clays which overlie the chalk , the tertiary clays which you can see for example in the top of the cliffs at Newhaven , and if you look back at the cliff from the western breakwater for example you can see clay sitting on top of chalk . |
| 2 | Equally at home with highbrow or no-brow cinema , Kael is unapologetic about feeding a sweet tooth for vulgarity which can seem incongruous in the New Yorker 's staid pages . |
| 3 | When SAVE was launched in 1975 , good photographs of endangered buildings were very scarce , but with today 's improved methods of printing we can use any reasonable snapshot we are sent . |
| 4 | It senses the danger and almost instantaneously cuts off the power with a speed of reaction which can prevent a tragedy occurring . |
| 5 | ( Doane 1984 , p. 6 ) But this does not mean either that film-viewers are not also active readers of film who can produce their own meanings , or that identification with mainstream fiction film characters means unconditional surrender to bourgeois ideology . |
| 6 | The main danger in the staff reaction is that there might be a severe loss of morale which can affect the care of other patients . |
| 7 | Without any loss of generality we can take AOB to be in the equatorial plane of the parent star so that the acceleration is purely in the coordinate φ . |
| 8 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 9 | The following is a specimen layout for a typical bill of exchange although there are many different styles of exchange which can satisfy the definition given above . |
| 10 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 11 | However , if a Night Goblin shaman eats a piece of mushroom he can use magic even if there are no other Orcs or Goblins near . |
| 12 | The list of fax cards and fax modems with which the software will work is extensive , and covers just about every piece of kit we can think of , which is reassuring . |
| 13 | We will begin by looking at intonation in the shortest piece of speech we can find — the single syllable . |
| 14 | Perhaps a double size piece of paper you can fold in your and then put the diagram in the middle , photocopy it , and stick it on , glue it on , the diagram . |
| 15 | To help decide on the relevance of a piece of information you can ask questions of it as suggested in Question Analysis . |
| 16 | When we defend ourselves too rigidly against threatening aspects of change we can precipitate the very situations we seek to avert . |
| 17 | The only words of comfort I can give are that the more emotional freedom you give your children , the more likely you are to keep their love and affection . |
| 18 | This letter was only the beginning of a case with a long history , and by piecing together a number of disjointed fragments of information we can obtain an unusually clear picture of the sequence of events and of Anselm 's reactions to them . |
| 19 | There is now peat underfoot , and in places on this stretch of track you can find butterwort pinguicula vulgaris — it 's impossible not to tread on it , especially around the green-topped post marked No 1 . |
| 20 | While being inexpensive and readily transportable , they do have the disadvantage of flexibility which can cause problems during installation . |
| 21 | Ed I 've got some news for ya , there 's actually need every scrap of help we can get right now and anything that comes out of Europe that gives us that assistance needs our support . |
| 22 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 23 | In some cases of urgency he can introduce regulations with a shelf life of up to 12 months without consultation ( s11(5) ) . |
| 24 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 25 | If this is the case , then your first objective is to raise the level of work you can do before sliding too far into fatigue-producing anaerobic respiration . |
| 26 | Note that at the level of phonology we can abstract smaller elements such as the phoneme /g/ in glad , but such segments have no formal meaning . |
| 27 | While allowances are provided for inflation ( a percentage for pay and a percentage for others costs ) , the change to cash planning was expected to motivate spending managers to think more about what level of service they can provide with only a given amount of money . |
| 28 | He is an effective communicator who knows the industry 's problems and is concerned that too few know about the level of despair which can make a farmer twice as likely to commit suicide as the average man . |
| 29 | He is an effective communicator who knows the industry 's problems and is concerned that too few know about the level of despair which can make a farmer twice as likely to commit suicide as the average man . |
| 30 | The optimistic consensus is that they do n't but that one has to be very careful about making them , and the level of detail one can achieve may not be as great as one may like . |