Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sweep the rod back as much as I can in the confined space and , although the fish is rather small at about 1¼lb , it kicks up quite a fuss and there is nothing I can do to stop it splashing . |
| 2 | To this end I have already started talking to as many people as I can in the local area , with some good response , but now wish to approach a wider audience — hence the appeal to you . |
| 3 | You should try to read as much as you can of the great Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists ; Shakespeare , Marlowe and Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , Tourneur , Webster , Middleton . |
| 4 | The trick is to get as much of the system installed as you can alongside the existing system so that you can change over all in one go . |
| 5 | ‘ As well as our involvement in the introduction of new machinery , we shall continue to work as a support team helping and advising wherever we can to the greater achievement of our colleagues responsible for TNT , quality assurance , work study , health and safety … indeed , any aspect of the Group 's business , ’ added Phil . |
| 6 | Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too . |
| 7 | Whether we can at the same time make people think explicitly about women is a more difficult question . |
| 8 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 9 | As soon as we can after the next election , we must consider how we are able to carry out those essential functions if the European union is to be democratically accountable . |
| 10 | The training tempo increases over the next few weeks … as cox and crew alike attempt to learn all they can about the famous course . |
| 11 | Solicitors who do not tell their clients in advance as much as they can about the likely cost of a piece of work — or exceed an estimate without notice — are now at risk of having their charges reduced by the Law Society under its powers to penalise Inadequate Professional Services . |
| 12 | He plays a street artist , just one of many downtrodden but not downhearted characters getting by as best they can amid the urban squalor . |
| 13 | Both will be attempting to reach Montpellier this year and both have been trying to experience as much professional golf as they can during the past year . |
| 14 | At the other end of the spectrum , some farmers are so keen to pass on as much as they can to the next generation they leave themselves and their spouses with no capital or income on which to live . |
| 15 | No , cos it 's , you just watch somebody smack a ball as hard as they can with the one wood and see how far it goes . |
| 16 | Neither have much influence over those countries most concerned with getting what they can from the colder world of sauve qui peut . |
| 17 | While the geographical map may be helpful to ensure a measure of blanket coverage , it can at the same time be very misleading if used as the only planning model . |