Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A septic tank is an open system and depends on being sited where it can eventually discharge into a natural watercourse or soakaway . |
| 2 | One can rarely dip into a Pollini recording as a series of edited highlights ( except perhaps as a demonstration of superlative digital execution ) , as he rarely ever plays ‘ for the moment ’ ; one is irresistibly drawn towards hearing the whole work , as only then does the integrity of his vision register with its fullest potency . |
| 3 | The problem is to identify those cases that can most benefit from a further investigation . |
| 4 | Powerfully supported in West Germany by leading academic figures such as Professor Ingolf Lamprecht , Head of Freie University 's Institute of Biophysics in Berlin , and in Canada by Professor James Webb of Victoria University 's Department of Biophysics , to name only two , his work has been described as being of prophetic insight , incredibly productive and important and the most significant breakthrough in the field of cancer research today , one which should be given the highest priority in terms of social worth , funding and exposure by the media , as such discoveries can literally usher in a new science for the benefit of all humanity . |
| 5 | This spirit can only travel in a straight line , so when it slides down the roof in the hope of gaining entry to a house , it will be swept up in the air again by the curving gable . |
| 6 | The decomposition of observed unemployment rates into their classical and Keynesian parts can only serve as a first step in the formulation of macroeconomic policy since such an exercise must take place within a broader framework which encompasses concepts such as short- and long-run Phillips curves , the natural unemployment rate , and NAIRU . |
| 7 | Like the absence of useful maritime peripheries , however , they can only serve as a secondary reinforcement of pre-existing leanings to political centralism . |
| 8 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 9 | The association between leanness and fertility has been extensively explored by Frisch , who has suggested that menstruation and ovulatory cycles can only start above a certain threshold ratio of lean body mass to fat mass . |
| 10 | Now Rebecca 's family can only hope for a suitable kidney from an accident victim . |
| 11 | This can only lead to a partial picture where lenders try to succeed within their own parameters , without all the facts on the likely borrower . |
| 12 | ‘ Halliwell said that these sexual experiments can only lead to a dead end . |
| 13 | Each outer cave or vault can only entered through a small version of the iris-like Vadinamian Valve . |
| 14 | Like a man in a dream , that must for his life run like a deer , and can only crawl like a broken worm . |
| 15 | It can only happen after a disastrous split in the majority party or when no party has a majority . |
| 16 | Though what will happen in the next century up to 2025 , as table 5.4 suggests , we can only calculate with a large margin of error . |
| 17 | If Sartre 's endeavour to ground the Marxist science of history suggests that the Hegelian totality and continuum can only work by a continual labour of excluding the partial and discontinuous , Althusser 's effort to constitute a differentiated history shows that you can not do it without a teleology . |
| 18 | They can only operate as a rough guide to classifying tables of data , and it is not possible to say how they might relate to the levels in a particular graduated test scheme . |
| 19 | With what I can only describe as a cavalier disregard for the obligations of a good employer , the right hon. Gentleman issued a statement which said : ’ Mr. Kaufman completely disagrees with the article ’ — which , as I said , stated in every respect the Labour party 's policy , in so far as it is comprehensible , as now stated . |
| 20 | Erm looking across from the Arms , one can see that , what I can only describe as a delightful bit of architecture , erm perhaps I 'm a little bit er of a philistine , but er I think it 's one of the nicest , most attractive buildings in the town . |
| 21 | However , a machine can only stretch in a few directions and is therefore only of limited value . |
| 22 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 23 | Do n't get me wrong — sheep are profitable , very profitable , but if it 's cheeses you rear them for then one man can only deal with a few . |
| 24 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 25 | As the final sentence of the chapter puts it , The belief which inspires every paragraph of the present Report is that this much-desired spiritual unity in the nation and the equally necessary uplift in the whole level of the popular imagination can only come through a general acknowledgement of the paramount place which the native speech and literature should occupy in our schools and in the common life of our people . |
| 26 | These can only come in a planned economic system and will never come through the irrationalities of the market . |
| 27 | The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level . |
| 28 | True knowledge and true understanding , it is implied , can only come from a divine source . |
| 29 | If you have tried sprinkling it on breakfast cereal and weighed the quantity , you will have discovered that you get a large volume for a quarter of an ounce — just about as much as you can palatably add to a single portion of breakfast cereal , without beginning to think that you are eating a bowl of sawdust ! |
| 30 | None of the superhuman beings — with the exception of the two already mentioned — can thus interfere with a human being unless a rule has been broken . |