Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So said Freud , it 's no wonder that people believe in religion , because religion can provide you with a lot , with a lot of gratification , but the fundamental psychological explanation for this , says Freud , is that these feelings that religion gratifies in adult life , are transferences of feelings that we all had in infancy . |
| 2 | Should they break this code of conduct , their association can strike them from the register and ban them from practising medicine . |
| 3 | In this way the energy pattern of a cancer-causing agent can transfer itself via the field to impinge upon the cell if the cell exhibits a vulnerability or an attractiveness to the agent . |
| 4 | In oriental rugs , every knot — which corresponds to two individual strands of pile — is tied by hand , and a skilled weaver can tie something in the region of a thousand knots per hour . |
| 5 | The writer then explores what research can tell us about the impact of national policies on families , the impact of community attitudes , children 's experiences of divorce and step-families and some of the traumas children suffer in the course of family life , sometimes so great that they are driven to run away and then incur other serious problems for which inadequate provision is made in the community as a whole . |
| 6 | As violent crime against elderly people seems to increase , the resulting moral outcry can blind us to the fact that huge numbers of elderly people are abused in their own homes by carers — sons , daughters , husbands , wives , other relatives as friends , and paid carers . |
| 7 | In a new job , a few quick drinks after work can provide you with a great deal of information and understanding . |
| 8 | Using functional notation , we can write However , since it takes time for firms to adjust their capital stocks in response to changes in demand ( remember that capital is a variable factor of production only in the long-run ) , it may be more realistic to introduce a lag into the accelerator part of the function and write Only empirical testing can determine which of the three independent variables is the most important . |
| 9 | The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers . |
| 10 | Coun Jones had been urging Darlington councillors to stop the production coming to the town saying : ‘ If the borough council can ban something like the Chippendales , then it should have no hesitation of stopping a soft porn version of Swan Lake . ’ |
| 11 | However , if the scheme is viewed as one that does not tax interest on savings , then more consumption in the future can be financed from a given volume of savings and those seeking a target future consumption can meet it with a lower level of current savings . |
| 12 | Occasionally the fungus can ensconce itself in the terminal portion of the urethra , and it may then give rise to symptoms similar to those found in non-specific urethritis . |
| 13 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 14 | The boxes are currently in external alpha sites where the company hopes to validate some of the assumptions still swirling around NT and the Mips architecture such as whether a Mips NT machine can hack it in the Intel environment as a price/performance player . |
| 15 | The TIC can tell you about the local brewers Tetleys ' Heritage Inns , including the 1,000-year-old Bingley Arms at Bardsey . |
| 16 | But a woman teacher can know you from the inside ; you can not hide from her so easily , or divert her attention . |
| 17 | ‘ In the same way in which a person 's job can say something about the way he values himself and sees himself as being valued , there was considerable talk [ in the group ] about assessment and much time was devoted to the problems of time and motion and job evaluation . |
| 18 | That kind of insight can free her from the constraints of the inner voice which effectively commands her , ‘ Turn right here . |
| 19 | Notice that the enzyme can do nothing about the difference , h , between the initial and final energy engineer can , by digging a tunnel , reduce the height to which one must climb to travel between them , but if there is a difference of altitude between the cities he can not alter it . |
| 20 | This process can take anything from a few weeks to a few months . |
| 21 | Taking a mineral-water lunch with your colleagues in a secluded senior executive dining room can divorce you from the real contributors as much as from the contribution you seek . |
| 22 | He is living proof that an individual congressman with energy and knowledge can turn himself into a foreign-policy entrepreneur . |
| 23 | And that 's what 's happening at the moment , because we 're not sitting down and saying , I mean , this is my worry about oh we might do this there , that 's why I want it tightened up because at the end of the day we start , we have various modules at a later date , two , three years time whatever we might decide to sling out but it should really be designed , worked upon so that the incoming person can use it as a basis given their limitations |
| 24 | My cats have learnt how to open our fridge so that they , our dogs and our three-year-old toddler can help themselves to the contents . |
| 25 | Porn can teach us about the simple mechanics of lesbian and gay sex . |
| 26 | Techniques for going up and down stairs , through doors and in narrow spaces should be properly demonstrated by a mobility expert so that pupils guiding a blind friend can do it in a safe , efficient way . |
| 27 | A s8 order will normally come to an end when the child reaches the age of 16 although the court can extend it to the child 's eighteenth birthday if the circumstances of the case are exceptional ( ss9(6) , 91(10) ( 11 ) ) . |
| 28 | Given that the image already exists on paper , a scanner can capture it as a bitmap which can then be manipulated by a suitable graphics package . |
| 29 | A widower can become something of a ‘ cause ’ to those living in the same street or block of flats , whereas a widow , although not shunned , may be to some extent avoided by all but the most caring individuals in the early days of her bereavement . |
| 30 | Available at a small charge and with special supervision given , the spa can provide you with a healthy breakaway in Amsterdam . |