Example sentences of "can [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 You can pay money or not pay money ; you can pay more or you can pay less ; you can make payments more frequently or less frequently .
2 Linked together , they can crunch numbers as fast as any mainframe , but at a fraction of the cost .
3 So long as two key sequences do not produce overlapping remainders this can achieve results considerably better than true randomization .
4 Since recessive threats to the money markets occurred in the ‘ big bangs ’ of the 1980s , the enterprise culture has shown it can remove jobs as quickly as it creates them .
5 It is clear that male birds with more complicated repertoires can intimidate rivals more successfully and/or attract mates more readily .
6 In minor cases these people can produce reports fairly quickly and will cover the matter in such a comprehensive manner that further reports should be unnecessary , particularly where there is a full recovery within a relatively short time .
7 Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness .
8 The fact that the passive brings about alterations of word order gives it a special function in writing , because it provides one means by which a writer can link sentences smoothly together and achieve the desired emphasis .
9 that needs all the help she can get goes up there and
10 IT systems that can solve problems as effectively as experts , can learn by analogy or by pattern recognition and those that can understand natural languages , such as English , are known by the collective name of artificial intelligence systems , or AI systems .
11 Volunteers can help clients more effectively if they are allocated time for tasks other than direct interviewing .
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