Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] can [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some individuals can take up the suggestions of the hypnotist to the extent of becoming deaf or blind or unable to smell ; they may withstand pain without a murmur , re-experience being a six-year old , or even forget everything that happened , after hypnosis , until given a prearranged ‘ release ’ signal . |
| 2 | You have to watch your step at Llidiardau Mawr — uneven floors , low doorways and steep stairways can catch out the unwary ! |
| 3 | In the autumn they established a Women 's International League based on a joint platform of women 's rights and pacifism : ‘ only free women can build up the peace which is to be . ’ |
| 4 | It also needs long periods of ecological stability during which evolutionary epochs can bring about the necessary organic synthesis . |
| 5 | The Nation 's Schools , Butler 's official pamphlet of 1945 , gestured vaguely towards freedom and liveliness , but not much else : ‘ Free from the pressure of any external examination these schools can work out the best and liveliest forms of secondary education suited to their pupils . ’ |
| 6 | These devices can back up the whole system or only those parts which you specify , and are very fast . |
| 7 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 8 | Only rational beings can weigh up the merits of competing claims for attention , be they those of moral patients or other moral agents . |
| 9 | Occasionally a book has almost achieved immortality , like John Ruskin 's Stones of Venice , but even more modest books can call up the spirit of a place ; and a private letter may illuminate both a person and a work of art . |
| 10 | Local initiatives can lay out the line of policy that a future Labour government can follow ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 128 ) . |