Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It coped easily with gently curved edges , and was in its element coasting up and down a slightly sloping lawn , producing those satisfying stripes that can make mowing a distinct pleasure . |
| 2 | Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work . |
| 3 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 4 | Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon . |
| 5 | Although you will not be able to take your puppy out at once , there are many things which you can do to form a close bond between you and your new pet . |
| 6 | What the NEA and Frohnmayer 's troubles have made clear is that only leadership , intelligent , proud and committed , can explain to the American people what great art , validated by time and genius , can bring to heal a split society . |
| 7 | Things can appear to have a different significance if you view them from a different vantage-point . |
| 8 | I can remember having a certain amount of resentment towards politics after that . ’ |
| 9 | I can remember having a certain amount of resentment towards politics . ’ |
| 10 | I can remember having a particular question , which is what 's this matrix equal to , when it 's the inverse of zeros ? |
| 11 | And I can remember having a rubber stamp made and every letter that went out I insisted every one should have this frank on India Must be Free . |
| 12 | We can envisage creating a new group of instructions by selecting one of the operations already met with , and producing an " iterated " version of it . |
| 13 | Mrs Bottomley , representing ‘ caring Conservatism ’ , will face Mr Michael Portillo , the new Treasury Chief Secretary , who is equally keen to establish his Right-wing credentials by demonstrating he can keep keep a tight grip on the public purse strings . |
| 14 | Yet if it goes hand in hand with a commitment to redistributing power and wealth , literacy becomes one of the tools a government can use to create a new society . |
| 15 | The next step will be to draw up a set of criteria which personnel users new to computing , or the experienced user representing their interests , can use to make a sensible choice . |
| 16 | Before you can begin to design a single building you have to consider the shape of the site , its ground conditions , its relations with its neighbours , the character of its nearby historic buildings , vehicle access , height restrictions , the means of escape in case of fire , disabled access , rubbish disposal and costs . |
| 17 | We are already too stretched , and the law does not give us automatic ex access to time off for training , but we have got to ask , and we should commit the G M B to lobby for an extension of existing laws , and to lobby for various E C funds , and then we can begin to make a real impact on the environment . |
| 18 | Once your goals have been reached and all your rewards earned , you can stop keeping a detailed diary . |
| 19 | The implication of this study is that developing societies need to improve their elementary school system before their economies can hope to have a secure foundation for industrialisation . |
| 20 | This is hardly the place for a dissertation of magnetic monopoles ; indeed , with luck , you can hope to avoid a single mention of the grand Universal Theories ( called GUTs ) that predict them . |
| 21 | In other words , to succeed , Commodore must sell multimedia strongly while CD-I can hope to gain a large measure of success merely through ‘ piggy-backing ’ on the momentum of CD-A sales . |
| 22 | No council can hope to sack a large portion of its staff , who take the greater part of its expenditure . |
| 23 | You can decide to start a personal pension at any time you want and then , in order to receive all the DSS minimum contributions that will be paid into your pension plan , backdate it to the start of the tax year on 6 April . |
| 24 | But it claims that the findings are significant because they illustrate how discharges into the sea can return to land a considerable distance away and enter human food chain . |
| 25 | As long as you have solicitors who can be admitted to the Personal Injury Panel or who can apply to take a Legal Aid Board franchise , there is no reason why they should not have experienced legal executives working under their control . |
| 26 | Satellite surveillance is all very well , but it takes time to get information back and in that time a naval force can have moved a fair distance . |
| 27 | The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties . |
| 28 | ‘ Put it this way … the fans can go to see a good fight between me and Razor Ruddock at Earls Court on October 31 — or they can go to see Bruno win on a cut against Coetzer . ’ |
| 29 | Unlike most of his rivals , Mr Gavron can afford to take a long-term view — even running at 75 p.c. capacity St Ives is still making decent money . |
| 30 | And Mr Birrell claims that because the Halifax is mutual , it can afford to take a longer-term view of its strategic options . |