Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the availability of very fast spectroscopic techniques , using either photographic recording or pulsed lasers , we can consider working with a non-flowing sample and simply recording a spectrum at some interval after sudden generation of the species , but before its decay is complete . |
| 2 | With a few words a woman can give meaning to a whole day 's struggle , and a man will be very grateful . |
| 3 | Labour will develop a flexible decade of retirement between the ages of 60 and 70 , so that men and women can choose to retire on a full pension or continue in work without discrimination . |
| 4 | Having accepted that deviance can become amplified through a positive feedback mechanism , and that the initial acts of deviance on which the system feeds are often quite minor , only a relatively weak explanation of the original deviance is called for . |
| 5 | Thus , very high blood pressure can become established as a pathological state — ‘ essential hypertension ’ — which can help to precipitate strokes or heart attacks . |
| 6 | If you feel this makes your first attempts at pressed flower pictures rather too complicated , you can begin working with a simple picture arranged on a plain cream card and make your designs more ambitious each time . |
| 7 | Should you be lucky enough to own a ‘ filofax ’ , there are many kinds of graph paper , different coloured notepapers , and diary sheets that you can purchase to make into a comprehensive section on your new diet and health programme . |
| 8 | This cause has been championed not because of the prestige which the word ‘ science ’ carries with it , but because it is only through the better employment of scientific method that sociology can hope to develop as a true academic discipline , free from the biases introduced by ideologists or the wish to sway current social policy . |
| 9 | If a problem ( or a proof ) seems too difficult as it stands one can try looking at a special or simpler case . |
| 10 | The diversity and volume of silver bearing his mark is far greater than can have emerged from a single workshop and it has been generally acknowledged , after a century dominated by the concept of the maker 's mark , that De Lamerie , in common with many other goldsmiths registering marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , not only fulfilled orders with other goldsmiths ' wares but also subcontracted orders to a range of London workshops , although striking the finished wares with his own punch . |
| 11 | A few of them can afford to rely upon a single organization to offer them work throughout the year . |
| 12 | Once that 's settled , you can afford to indulge in a little merrymaking . |
| 13 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the launching of the first Trident submarine yesterday , and the fact that three more are under construction , is the minimum insurance policy that the country can afford to accept in a dangerous and uncertain world ? |
| 15 | I think kids can get influenced in a bad way by music . |
| 16 | Injecting drugs with a shared needle and syringe. ( 20 people can get infected in a single evening this way . ) |
| 17 | If a discount house finds itself short of funds after the Bank 's main bill business has been concluded , it can request to borrow on a secured basis from the Bank . |
| 18 | We do have to look at all our pre-school children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and I hope that we can continue to push for a co-ordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families . |
| 19 | statement , but we can start moving towards a personal statement |
| 20 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |