Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Okay , let's have a break er if you can come back reasonably quickly er we can make up a few seconds .
2 There is , however , no clear one-to-one relationship between discourse type and sender and receiver , and for many words denoting discourse type ( song , for example , or article ) we can make only the vaguest connections .
3 okay it 'll be that so you can eventually you can build up a few tricks that 'll help you sort out a lot of the spelling .
4 But the early morning milkround means he can cover over a hundred miles a week in training … which makes the actual competition more bearable .
5 There is usually a square grid of lines on the backing , which makes it easy to cut it in straight lines , and a small roll can cover quite a few items .
6 In rugby , as in most aspects of life in South Africa , we have agreed to let go of the old ways and leaders even though no-one can know where the new ways will lead us — or where the new leaders will come from .
7 Here we can consider only the final versions .
8 Once this is accepted we can seek out the logical consistencies in contextual use which constitute ‘ structural principles ’ and which make sense of otherwise apparently baffling practices and beliefs .
9 If West Yorkshire can manage without a county council and manage well , and the West Yorkshire district councils can carry out the necessary functions , why does Derbyshire have to be encumbered with a county council ?
10 They are ruminants and have special structures in their stomachs ( the rumen ) , containing special micro-organisms which can break down the hard parts of the plants .
11 ‘ If you English tourists get too powerful around here , ’ he told me over a glass of grappa , and with a particularly charming smile , ‘ I think I can remember where the old machine-guns are buried . ’
12 The programme is based on evidence that chemicals are often sprayed when pests are not vulnerable and that the chemicals used can wipe out the natural enemies of the pest species .
13 In fact , the whole thing goes on all night and if they can keep down the smarmy comments ( like , we know this stuff if crap , we do n't need to be told ) , it could be very good .
14 If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity .
15 on this side , erm , they have them so you can work out the reverse bearings , but it 's it 's better not to use those , just , stick with the out
16 you can work out the mathematical ones
17 I can see why the other ones could n't know what you were saying .
18 But it was the piercing electromagnetic field forces and the solar wind that blew away most of the atmospheres consisting of the very lightest gases from the planets nearest to the sun , to leave them with dense cores of rock and metal , the outer gaseous planets being less affected in this way ( now we can see why the innermost planets of the solar system are solid , metallic and rocky , while the outer ones are icy and gaseous ) .
19 We can see exactly the same connections being drawn in the case of Frances , Jenny and Ian .
20 Erm and through this we can see where the different variations come in the system and introduce one or two other ones .
21 If we are content to think generally , then , we can see how the key molecules of life might have arisen .
22 From this view you can see how the padded mitts cover the whole of the knuckle area .
23 If one considers the transition from our myopic ( static ) world to our optimal ( dynamic ) world , one can see how the dynamic aspects build up .
24 Thus we can see how the social policies of Italian Fascism failed to meat its objective of creating a classless society enough they did change one nature of the state and politics .
25 On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost .
26 Then , when you return to your own room , you can look up the relevant pages and study them in the light of the explanations you have had .
27 Disk Mirror is useful when copying large disks from one drive to another , especially over a network , as you can copy only the required directories .
28 If Snakes of the World can cure even a few readers of their phobia , replacing terror with admiration , it will have achieved its purpose .
29 Unless they 're very very careful the supporters of one member , one vote so called will create a narrow and exclusive Party , limited to those lucky people who can stump up an eighteen pounds membership fee without thinking too hard , and in the Britain of nineteen ninety three there are n't quite as many of those as perhaps we would like to see .
30 An observer at a distance from the black hole can measure only the outgoing particles , and he can not correlate them with those that fall into the hole because he can not observe them .
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