Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On this basis , one can plot in the tropical belt for most periods of geological time , though the margin of error is such that sometimes they fit in with drifting hypotheses and sometimes they do not . |
2 | Allowing for the conventions of sedate amenity that governed American reviewing ( as for the most part they still do ) , one can detect in the American reviewers of Eliot 's Poems ( 1920 ) and of The Waste Land ( 1922 ) the same recalcitrance that the British reviewers expressed more cheekily . |
3 | Of course , as the examples of man , woman , and people illustrate , one can economize in the opposite direction as it were , from grammar to lexis . |
4 | If we look into the history of Iraq I do n't think anybody can remember in the past twenty years they have contributed anything , neither in the terms of world economy , neither in the world of world peace , or any humanitarian |
5 | Anything can happen in the next half hour — specifically , fabbo '60s puppet drama STINGRAY is happening , followed by more MAN FROM UNCLE stuff . |
6 | Absolutely anything can happen in the National , as , as was |