Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody can dodge the monetary reform . |
| 2 | Three grand goes a fair way among the widows and apprentices , particularly as nobody can remember the last time there was an apprentice in the village . |
| 3 | That 's why they 're shown there , they 're different to the figures shown on the first page of the report , but because they 're calculated on the same base , er , one can compare at each other , one can compare the different towns . |
| 4 | The further one can extend the grazing season in spring and autumn , without damage to soil or sward , the better . |
| 5 | No one can anticipate the precise skills that workers will need to succeed on the job when information processing , knowhow , and creativity are the value added . |
| 6 | Within the above breakdown one can suggest the following modules ( none of which is comprehensive , only the flavour is indicated ) — the way in which each of the modules would be approached is indicated in the sample courses given in Section 5 : |
| 7 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 8 | One can conceive the theoretical possibility of an all-embracing ethic in which every moment of every life is in principle evaluable by its degree of awareness , by how intelligently one is acting or reacting . |
| 9 | From this postulate about the general nature of the verb based on our experience of happenings , one can deduce the necessary presence of a spatial support in the mental representation signified by the infinitive . |
| 10 | George Bush calls the Iraqi missile attacks on Israel ‘ outrageous ’ while exalting the prowess of those who have thrown double the explosive power of the Hiroshima Bomb on Baghdad , not to liberate Kuwait , but to control the oil , and remind all Arab peoples that no one can defy the American will to become the world 's policemen now that the Soviet Union is not to be counted for as an opponent . |
| 11 | But one can hear the naked cry of agony in Greek tragedy only because its conventions are elaborately designed to distance the events from our own affairs , to show only noble personages speaking eloquent and musical language . |
| 12 | No one can fault the absolute loyalty that Willie gave to Ted and then Margaret . |
| 13 | One can trace the same development from conservative polyphony to polychoral music demanding instrumental co-operation for its full effect in the works of the other Venetians and Willaert pupils of the latter half of the century : Costanzo Porta ( c. 1529–1601 ) , Claudio Merulo ( 1533–1604 ) , Giovanni Croce ( c. 1557–1609 ) , and above all Andrea 's nephew Giovanni Gabrieli ( c. 1555–1612 ) . |
| 14 | One can forgive the old dugouts retrieving their uniforms from the mothballs and flaunting medal ribbons and red tabs about the place , but the young are beginning to sprout extraordinary garments . |
| 15 | One can imagine the cloud-capped towers of Inigo Jones 's elegant Baroque soaring above the Fens . |
| 16 | On any walk through a bog or fen one can see the delicate shoots of the horsetails , looking almost like miniature fir trees , sometimes clustering into dense masses . |
| 17 | In the far distance on clear days one can see the higher peaks well known in mountaineering circles . |
| 18 | One can either see externalization as undoing this process and therefore no longer serving the ego in its defensive purpose , or one can see the psychotic remodelling of reality which occurs , for instance , in hallucination , as an all-too-successful externalization . |
| 19 | In fact , with the World Cup now being held every three years , and with all the ever-expanding domestic programme which includes games in the B&H and NatWest Cups , against the MCC and Ireland , as well as the expanded area championship , one can see the international squad being mainly composed of full-time players . |
| 20 | Here one can see the same assumption that Hastings ' power is the king 's power , with a consequent blurring of the two retinues . |
| 21 | Here one can see the same assumption that Hastings ' power is the king 's power , with a consequent blurring of the two retinues . |
| 22 | Under such circumstances one can predict the final outcome with rather more confidence , for a child in this situation is sustained and encouraged in the response he originally adopted . |
| 23 | Even though companies ' actions are the result of a substantial contribution of views from many people it is surprising how often one can predict the competitive gambits from knowledge of the characteristics and prejudices of the leader . |
| 24 | Even in Clare 's own country , the railway has been absorbed into the landscape , and one can enjoy the consequent pleasure of trundling through Rutland in a stopping-train on a fine summer morning : the barley fields shaking in the wind , the slow sedgy streams with their willows shading meditative cattle , the elegant limestone spires across the meadows , the early Victorian stations built of the sheep-grey Ketton stone and still unaltered , the warm brown roofs of the villages half buried in the trees , and the summer light flashing everywhere . |
| 25 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 26 | Though one can question the exact proportion allocated to education , it is impossible to argue that a certain proportion should not be so allocated . |
| 27 | Obviously the modern sophisticated reader will know that one can use the highest points in each square of a fine grid or take the heights of points picked at random to provide data . |
| 28 | Here is De Camp 's description of the continuum as it applies to Jamaica ( 1971:350 ) : no one can deny the extreme variability of Jamaican English … in Jamaica there is no sharp cleavage between Creole and standard . |
| 29 | One can reconstruct the original language by looking for common words and then make a guess about where the language came from . |
| 30 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |