Example sentences of "can [verb] [art] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes . |
| 2 | Lucy says to Panama , matter of factly : ‘ You can make a dog stop that by sticking your finger up its bottom . ’ |
| 3 | We start in January with a Mbuna set-up … and you can win the equipment involved each month . |
| 4 | May I please ask you to give a little time to thinking how best you personally can assist the Society to raise enough funds before the end of this year to complete our Development Plan for 1988 ? |
| 5 | I can flood the paper using this frame and be sure that once dry it will return to a perfectly flat surface . |
| 6 | Jasper Carrott and Phil Cool : Middlesbrough Town Hall It is always good to see big-name comedy acts reaching the North-East other than in Newcastle , more especially when there are two such acts and both of them can keep a crowd laughing all evening . |
| 7 | Bruce said , ‘ I can use the pendulum to do more than that . |
| 8 | Or how , if governments are to use movable exchange-rates to keep their economies competitive , the Community as a whole can avoid a race to devalue that merely fuels inflation . |
| 9 | We can take an example to demonstrate some of the implications of these ideas and the additional information which can emerge . |
| 10 | You can omit the mortar form some of the joints in a brick or concrete block wall , but the effect is never as natural-looking as plants growing in stone . |
| 11 | One assumes from this that there should be no repeat of the Investment Business Regulations debacle but , until such time as the Institute has had an opportunity to demonstrate that it can resist the temptation to create any further unnecessary bureaucracy , members are likely to be justifiably sceptical . |
| 12 | The second is the fact that we tend to make ourselves miserable by exploring the limits to which we can resist the temptation to go all the way . |
| 13 | Well could you take responsibility for actually sort of sitting down with me sometime so we can have a meeting to talk that through ? |
| 14 | You can write the definition to accept any number of parameters . |
| 15 | From this , the media people can extract the ratings achieved each time a commercial appears — and a close eye can be kept on what competitors are doing . |
| 16 | If an employer infringes the law , resulting in an employee being sued for this infringement , the employee can require the employer to pay any damages . |
| 17 | You can choose to limit the additional contexts to a single alternative to the text , or you can extend the choice to include several . |
| 18 | But we can not change our view that no political system , and no national interest , can justify the threat to devastate this planet . |
| 19 | There we are let's put see if we can find a space to put these . |
| 20 | If you 've said you 've , that you think you believe whales and dolphins should not be hunted then perhaps you can find a photograph showing those creatures swimming in the open ocean , something to think about . |
| 21 | What is known is that the truce will only hold till the losing interest group can find the opportunity to create another conflict which it might win . |
| 22 | Outlining a routine can help a lot to give each day some shape . |
| 23 | The occupational therapist plans suitable activities through which the carer can help the patient to overcome these perceptual problems . |
| 24 | Engineering evidence can help the judge to draw that inference . |