Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No athlete can feel satisfied by a performance achieved with the aid of drugs ; natural success lasts much longer . |
| 2 | Williams ' goal lifted the Sky Blues to second place in the Premier League — and punters can get 1,000-1 on a Norwich-Coventry one-two at the end of the season . |
| 3 | The clinical teacher can become knowledgeable about a particular specialty , and will be aware of the demands of the ward . |
| 4 | This opinion can seem persuasive for a time , but we can not persist in it . |
| 5 | The promise of plenty of planting can prove useful to a company in search of planning permission , so Waterers has found its services increasingly in demand by supermarket giants Sainsbury 's and Tesco as they try and inveigle their way on to the green belt . |
| 6 | The eggs can remain viable for a considerable period of time , however , and so you should dispose of faecal matter carefully to prevent any risk of infection in the garden if you have a young family . |
| 7 | THE MORNING after what ranked as quite possibly the worst night out one person can have short of a lobotomy , I arrived in H.P. Central to find this lying on my desk . |
| 8 | And I 've no power of attorney — so any banker can take that as a good and valid reason for waiting until you return . ’ |
| 9 | It is clearly imperative that these clients and others with lesser problems can feel comfortable in a bureau . |
| 10 | The stitching can go rotten in a very short space of time and remember when you start the cross country course , ride with confidence or do not start ! |
| 11 | It will try to leave as much of the restriction as is reasonable in force , but that will only be the result if what remains after deletion of the void provisions can stand alone as a coherent , meaningful agreement : all too often the several restraints are jumbled and effectively unseverable , so that the whole fails . |
| 12 | Some blind people can walk unaided down a busy street without bumping into anything . |
| 13 | Now might it not be also a very good idea then to report back to another public meeting with the results of those suggestions possibly done in a written form which could be freely available before the meeting so that people can discuss these in a structured way because I think this evening one of the problems about this evening is that points are being missed because issues are being jumped from one to another in no structured way and I think that it might be worth while for another meeting where it is structured but certainly to produce the results of your discussions internally to many of the ideas that you 've heard this evening . |
| 14 | " Two people can become close in a very short time , " |
| 15 | The Telemine can remain dormant at a depth of 150 m for up to two years . |
| 16 | Mid-Glamorgan fire chief Don Williams said : ‘ Wires where they enter the appliance can become frayed with a lot of use . ’ |
| 17 | erm I 've been a little bit appalled by the levity with which some of our extreme , extremist politicians recently have spoken about abrogating this or that international obligation entered by the country if a general election returns them to power , as if a , a self-respecting state can do that in a state system . |
| 18 | A man can teach another man that a red light means " stop " ; a man can teach this to a chimpanzee ; a chimpanzee can not teach this to a man , and one chimpanzee can not teach this to another.4 |
| 19 | In such instances the Church can become more of a barrier than a channel in the communication of the gospel . |
| 20 | So the stores can remain open on a Sunday for another month at least . |
| 21 | The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style . |
| 22 | Others can go continental with a style which is as chic and avant garde as a French bistro . |
| 23 | A pulse technique can reduce this to a controllable level . |
| 24 | However , from time to time different subgroups can become dominant within a larger social structure , and the culture of this subgroup is then likely to become the dominant culture in the greater society . |
| 25 | Obviously the times shown are approximate since journey times can vary due to a number of reasons e.g. weather , road works , traffic , etc . |
| 26 | The right video material can do this in a range of ways : its vivid presentation of settings and characters can be used to set the scene for roleplay ; it can present a case with such impact that it sparks off fierce debate ; we all make our own interpretations of what we see and so video can be a stimulus to genuine communication in the classroom by bringing out different opinions within the group . |
| 27 | Alternatively , the reader can interpret this as a sign of her weakness , that she requires this support to justify her actions . |