Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or , you can cover it with black plastic so that it rots down .
2 The important thing is that we can influence it through aerobic exercise .
3 I must never forget that He can influence us to right interpretation and thinking and even to some inspired initiative of love .
4 If they work , then I can introduce them at senior level . ’
5 You can introduce them into lacy patterns too .
6 You can brown it in hot fat beforehand if you really want to .
7 If you are sent incomprehensible bumf , find someone locally who can translate it into readable English . )
8 ‘ You can translate it in various ways .
9 The same missive ( it has characteristic Mr Nice Guy touches like ‘ I hope I have shown that you can trust me in difficult times as well as easier ones ’ ) went to the deputy leader , Coun Bill Dixon .
10 When it has grown strong and healthy , you can display it in various ways .
11 As teachers you can direct them along fruitful lines of approach and discourage them from fruitless ones .
12 They must keep within the budget , but if they spend less than their limit they can reallocate it to other purposes within the practice .
13 ‘ Whereas you , a childless young society woman , can feel it in full measure , ’ Tranter said sarcastically .
14 The main thing is that I can do it through official channels .
15 That 's right so you can do it on leaded light , you can do it on handles , but either you lay it on the customer right , which do you prefer ?
16 ‘ You can do it with golden syrup tins , ’ Gaily said , ‘ easier than with coconuts .
17 encouraged or put under pressure erm , I would think that with a lot more talking we might actually be able to work out something between surrogate mothers and nurturing mothers , they can do it with open adoption , other countries were learning how to do it .
18 Such a view is of course anachronistic , but this is exactly the attraction of Gironella 's reworkings — he can present us with shifting visions of the art of the past , from within and from without , exploiting contrary responses , period eye and innocent eye .
19 And I find it somehow very encouraging that television can present us with real people instead of the usual cyphers and still strike such deep and resonant chords in so many .
20 The good thing about friends is that you can choose them with consummate care and I never chose mad ones or nasty ones or boring ones , whereas you ca n't choose who you 're going to fall in love with .
21 To build on the EC 's Association Agreements with Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland so that we can welcome them to full membership by the year 2000 .
22 Researchers can trap them in frozen gases and study them at leisure
23 However , we can understand it in similar terms if we numerically ( as opposed to analytically ) compute return maps on a suitable plane .
24 Alcohol certainly affects most organs , but only the liver can convert it to other substances and clear it from the body .
25 You can keep them with small rockdwellers , such as Neolamprologus , Julidochromis and Telmatochromis .
26 Keeping a diary is a time-consuming activity but you can keep it within manageable bounds by being selective in the events you record .
27 If we can keep it in broad percentage terms of the total work at the project level , fine , that can be done , efficiently and effectively .
28 Mature horses are likely to suffer a softening of the bones due to the demineralisation , which can predispose them to other problems .
29 The Payroll operation is particularly sensitive , and although it would be desirable to have only one X-25 link for the organization , the demands of security , and reduction in cabling costs , suggest that an additional X-25 link be established in 1993/94 through one of the file-servers , so that any networked PC can use it for external communications .
30 It is so versatile : you can use it for everyday cooking and for special and festive occasions in starters , main courses , salads and puddings .
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