Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is debatable whether one can wholly understand it from the inside . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , there is no real solution to these difficulties and again we can only leave it to the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusion on the basis of the material presented . |
| 3 | The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today . |
| 4 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
| 5 | They can only use it as a source of energy after alcohol has been processed by the liver . |
| 6 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 7 | I er I can only write it from a Jewish perspective , it 's the perspective I stand at , but it seems to me that beyond a few superficialities there is no such thing as Jewish spiritual truth any more than there is Jewish mathematical truth . |
| 8 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 9 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |
| 10 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 11 | But surely you can just defrost it in the microwave ? |
| 12 | ‘ If you want to throw up , at least you can just do it over the side . ’ |
| 13 | You can just do it like a normal take away . |
| 14 | See you can just hear it in the earphones |
| 15 | I think I can just glimpse it as a dim fuzz , though large telescopes are needed to bring out its form and its very hot central star , which has a surface temperature of around 75000 degrees . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid there 's no way I can possibly pay it at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | It is a religiously-guarded principle that small clubs can still make it to the top flight . |
| 18 | All these changes , just to prove that TOTP can still cut it in the ratings game . |
| 19 | If you think that the result of your soft weaving effort will not have enough body on its own you can always use it as a supplement to another knitted pattern stitch . |
| 20 | If you know enough about a task , you can always translate it into an exercise in theorem proving . |
| 21 | You can always replace it by an extra ’ input ’ s0 whose value is always 1 , and a corresponding ’ weight ’ w0 whose value is -t . |
| 22 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 23 | But when an idea or the picture is false , we are more conscious of it as a separate thing , for we can clearly see it as a preconception or a prejudice . |
| 24 | I do n't think you can both stir it at the same time . |
| 25 | You can breathe it in through the lungs you can swallow it through the mouth , you can inject it through the skin and you can also absorb it through the skin . |
| 26 | But then again you can also do it with the various screen-based editors like Melbourne Draw for substantially less than £143.75 . |
| 27 | You can practically see it in the process of covering up the feeble attempts at civilization . |
| 28 | Your new patio will be designed and built in time for spring when you can really enjoy it to the full . |
| 29 | In fifty millesimals , when you are sure that the organic destruction has been checked , you can administer the same remedy in the centesimal scale : you can now use it without the slightest aggravation , the patient can be cured . |
| 30 | Or you can simply slide it onto the line through a hole that runs through the centre of the ‘ feeder . |