Example sentences of "[coord] can [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’ |
| 2 | Knives affect all our civil liberties and can even affect the ultimate one . |
| 3 | It can check all floppy disks loaded and can also scan the hard disk against a list of known viruses . |
| 4 | Orfe are generally a very hardy species and can easily withstand the cold winter temperatures that will occur in the pond . |
| 5 | Rigid-tined cultivators or ‘ grubbers ’ are very useful for breaking up consolidated or panned soil ( for instance , in the spring after a root crop ) , and can often replace the mould-board plough in the first stage of working down a tilth . |
| 6 | It 's a nightmarish complaint , as he looks perfectly well and can still play/compose the complicated music by which he made his living . |
| 7 | It is impossible to express the Hopes , the Fears , the various Conjectures , and Reveries , that your humble Servant must undergo this important Season , I am like the unhappy Gentleman mentioned in the Guardian ; and can scarce endure the bare Pronunciation of the Letter S : The hissing of the Tea-kettle distracts me ; and if I meet a Goose , I shun him as I would a Lion , or a Crocodile . |
| 8 | The Beaver 's complex design structures not only create artificial lakes and ponds , but can even change the natural course of rivers . |