Example sentences of "[noun] can [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conflicting interpretations compete for plausibility , and neither side can prove to the other its irrefutable correctness . |
| 2 | a ) How many centimetre squares can fit along the top row ? |
| 3 | c ) How many centimetre squares can fit in the whole square ? d ) Finish this sentence : 1 metre square holds … |
| 4 | Some schools may come to consider that the hard sell offers the only feasible way of gaining a firm position in the ‘ market-place ’ , because it would be naïve to hold to the unrealistic idea that most schools can respond to the new spirit of competition by quickly raising standards to improve their school 's popularity . |
| 5 | It is accepted procedure that an imprisoned contemnor can apply to the first instance court to purge his contempt and be released from prison . |
| 6 | ‘ Traders can choose from the daily menu which may include Chinese or Indian dishes , pizza or pastas , traditional English cuisine or healthy choices . |
| 7 | The result is as many blank pages as Ventura can build into the current chapter and you ca n't get at the tagged block of text to de-select it ! |
| 8 | And then , finally , look at what Equity can do for the successful plaintiff — the ‘ remedy ’ , the ‘ relief ’ which it can give him . |
| 9 | Two-stage tendering , for instance , means negotiation with a contractor can progress at the same time as the production of detailed design information , thereby shortening the total period necessary in which to complete the pre-contract work . |
| 10 | The greatest designers can sway with the prevailing mood of the moment , but remain fundamentally true to their own spirit ; Issey Miyake continues to delight audiences at his beautiful shows by determining his own uniquely futuristic fashion logic . |
| 11 | The course will also look back at garden history and explore some of the ways in which budding designers can learn from the great designers of the past . |
| 12 | If an episode in the history of science does not conform to Lakatos 's methodology , and if no satisfactory , independently supported , external explanation can be found , this would constitute evidence against the methodology , especially if a rival methodology can cope with the historical example in a superior way . |
| 13 | The new rules reduce the amount of ACT a non-taxpayer can reclaim from the Inland Revenue from 25 to 20 per cent , beginning with dividends paid after 6 April . |
| 14 | Its principal aim is to address the contribution social anthropology can make to the public understanding of the impact of new reproductive technologies on the perception and definition of kin relationships . |
| 15 | Moreover , particularly when a complex is relatively unstable , the bound protein can detach from the protected DNA fragment and reassociate to other DNA fragments that have already been modified by DMS . |
| 16 | Any molecule is ‘ coloured ’ only in certain directions — those from which a photon of light can couple with the appropriate molecular dipole . |
| 17 | Often the same or a similar fault can occur to the same aircraft a number of sectors later . |
| 18 | Congress , any delegate who lives in a university town or who has a son or daughter at college can testify to the special promotions that all banks offer to students . |
| 19 | The conviction that weight , shape , or thinness can serve as the sole or predominant referant for inferring personal value or self-worth is central to anorexia nervosa . |
| 20 | Some optimism can be drawn from Clinton 's promise to secure a GATT agreement , but it also would be foolish to forget that the president can haggle over the complex details in the months ahead . |
| 21 | Teachers looking for funding to support their research can apply to the Scottish Office Education Department for a grant under its sponsored research programme . |
| 22 | Whereas word recognition can occur without the skilled reader thinking about it , sentence reconstruction can not , and it is to this component subskill that the reader 's attention should be directed . |
| 23 | Pupil/peer recognition can hit at the very heart of the learning system and either inhibit or encourage progress . |
| 24 | Here , visitors can ride through the magical green-woods of Robin 's time , try their hand at archery and feast under the ‘ Greenwode Tree ’ . |
| 25 | And it is also important not to make the noise by stamping or banging against a hard surface , because this can set up vibrations that even a totally deaf cat can detect through the sensitive pads of its feet . |
| 26 | The site will be completely cleared and made safe until building work can start on the new development . |
| 27 | A similar process of topic identification can contribute to the present project , by reinforcing the choice of words whose senses contain subject codes that have been identified as being representative of the overall text . |
| 28 | The reduction in the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 will reduce the amounts they and other non-taxpayers can reclaim from the Inland Revenue , saving the Government £1 billion a year . |
| 29 | When this type of harassment occurs , when it is continuous day after day , unrelenting in its viciousness , then tensions grow with it and those tensions can creep into the whole community until finally some incident breaks the self-control ; the pent-up fury of people is unleashed and often blind , mindless violence occurs . |
| 30 | In daytime sleep , such an effect is not present and night-workers can vouch for the broken sleep produced by the more rapid filling of the bladder after lying down during the daytime . |