Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the burrow is a small one in flat territory , one man can effectively do all the shooting required and will stand in the middle , shooting round the full 360 degrees . |
| 2 | From this you can better judge both the potential of the farm and what is involved in bringing it up to that potential . |
| 3 | He is very busy , and can only spare half an hour . |
| 4 | I can only declare that the face before me had a terrible beauty . |
| 5 | One can easily imagine such a polity . |
| 6 | Nobody can ever detail all the trickery , kidnapping and war that took place to obtain those captives . |
| 7 | We are called upon to make such statements in all sorts of circumstances in our constituencies and sometimes we do it slightly with tongue in cheek , but I can genuinely make such a statement about many homes . |
| 8 | Still , many of these Sids can surely afford such a flutter on the stockmarket : one quarter of the 11m own shares worth less than £500 — $875 or , more simply , in any currency , peanuts . |
| 9 | Inquisitions post mortem can sometimes fill such a gap , but because a separate one had to be taken in every county involved we can never be certain that the record has survived in its entirety . |
| 10 | You can therefore put such a fodder crop onto tripods or a fence when damp , confident that it will dry out , so long as it is not loaded too tight . |
| 11 | We can therefore see such a plasmid as a temporary alliance between genes which induce conjugation in the host bacterium ( and so make transmission of the plasmid itself possible ) , and genes which help the host to survive and multi ply . |
| 12 | Yes , you can actually get all the body work-out you need while you 're just wheeling your shopping round your local supermarket . |
| 13 | On the other hand , we can never possess such a certainty that someone loves us . |
| 14 | By spending each morning meditating on one verse and each week upon one stanza , we can happily fill half a year on this wonderful psalm alone . |