Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it good to know you can sprint effortlessly for a bus , you can run up a flight of stairs without your heart thumping ? |
| 2 | If you are returning to work after child or relative care , try to ensure that you can earn enough in the remainder of that tax year to take you above the lower earnings limit . |
| 3 | " You can make fast to the ladder , but give her plenty of rope , or she 'll be standing on end when the tide goes down . " |
| 4 | However , each represents a recognisable stage of achievement , so that the student can build progressively towards a range of demanding and useful competences . |
| 5 | ‘ We can undress here in the cave if you like . |
| 6 | When paper goods like diapers or sanitary napkins come in contact with the body , the poisons can migrate quickly through the skin and accumulate in fatty tissues . |
| 7 | The problem can arise acutely in a situation where Y takes goods from X on ‘ sale or return ’ terms . |
| 8 | Many of the matching , sorting and ordering activities can arise incidentally within the periods of tidying away and clearing up . |
| 9 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 10 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 11 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 12 | Much more account should be taken of the individual teacher in discussing classroom practice ; the notion that a ‘ practice ’ can exist independently of the practitioner and can be imposed without regard for the individual 's personality , intentions and preferences is both professionally demeaning and impractical . |
| 13 | What is unique about capitalism is that exploitation and surplus labour can exist even within a system of free labour markets , so creating the illusion that the worker is also free ; but as Marx points out this is not the case . |
| 14 | It could be said that from the point of view of social research , the world only exists as data and data can exist only through the interpretations placed on materials gathered from the world . |
| 15 | Owing to the changes made in the law of intestate succession ( see pp. 111–13 ) , coparcenary can exist only in the case of an entailed interest . |
| 16 | Yer can stay here for a bit . |
| 17 | You can stay here in the water , if you want . ’ |
| 18 | The thing is we can stay longer in the swimming pool . |
| 19 | A tea bag can stay longer in the cup . |
| 20 | Clearly in that case any statements about the services at the hotel can relate only to the future . |
| 21 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 22 | A gentle walk — which can act almost as a warm-down — will help to clear the debris from your legs and will aid recovery . |
| 23 | Perhaps the greatest restrictions are that he or she can act only on the request of an MP and the only weapon available is to publicize the misdeeds . |
| 24 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 25 | Agents often have authority to bind their principals in ways they should not , they can act wrongly in the exercise of their authority without forfeiting it . |
| 26 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 27 | Interview schedules can fall anywhere on a scale from the completely structured to the completely unstructured , and many include questions of several types within the same schedule . |
| 28 | ‘ Business enterprises can survive only with the approval of the community in which they operate and they have an interest in revealing information which displays how differing interests are being balanced for the benefit of the whole community . |
| 29 | Use a small selected group , say between four and eight , so that the audience can focus easily on the points you are making . |
| 30 | Co-operation can focus mainly on the R , the D , or it can couple joint R&D with the joint production and marketing of the output of that R&D , and it can be structured around sharing costs , restrictions put on the other R&D activities of participants , and rules which govern the production and marketing of the output affected by the joint R&D project . |