Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it good to know you can sprint effortlessly for a bus , you can run up a flight of stairs without your heart thumping ? |
| 2 | If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it . |
| 3 | This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication . |
| 4 | However , each represents a recognisable stage of achievement , so that the student can build progressively towards a range of demanding and useful competences . |
| 5 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
| 6 | The problem can arise acutely in a situation where Y takes goods from X on ‘ sale or return ’ terms . |
| 7 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 8 | What is unique about capitalism is that exploitation and surplus labour can exist even within a system of free labour markets , so creating the illusion that the worker is also free ; but as Marx points out this is not the case . |
| 9 | Yer can stay here for a bit . |
| 10 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 11 | Tourists can stay up to a maximum of 90 days in theory but longer is possible by showing a confirmed return air ticket . |
| 12 | Or you can hang out in a part of the music if you like the verse . ’ |
| 13 | A gentle walk — which can act almost as a warm-down — will help to clear the debris from your legs and will aid recovery . |
| 14 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 15 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 16 | Interview schedules can fall anywhere on a scale from the completely structured to the completely unstructured , and many include questions of several types within the same schedule . |
| 17 | The barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness , guided only by a faint rustle in the undergrowth . |
| 18 | You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum . |
| 19 | As a Golf Plus Club Member you can enjoy up to a 20% discount on a year 's subscription to Britain 's best golf magazines bringing you the best pictures and best coverage of your favourite game . |
| 20 | The arts are especially important and effective in arousing spiritual awareness because they can speak directly at a feeling level , as well as being free from any slavish dependence on religious ideas which are often rejected out of hand by secularists . |
| 21 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 22 | Er you 'll find that we do have actually have a calculator which we can send out with a retirement pack and that actually gives you an aide-memoire to actually remind you about the things that you might forget erm with regard to erm things like er holidays er erm say , medical expenses , er fuel expenses , erm club fees , T V licence , all those things . |
| 23 | It has had to accept that it can do neither without a deal with the opposition . |
| 24 | I do n't actually believe that that depression is normal , I believe that we can overcome depression , and I think there is some creative things that we can do out of a depression people can become stronger , they can tap into their resources inside with support and help , so I can believe it 's a positive experience . |
| 25 | Clinical manager Janet Powell said : ‘ We have tried to make our service as accessible as possible so that anyone who needs to see us , whether about themselves , a relative or friend , can do so at a time convenient to them , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Well every biologist knows why you want to do that , it 's so you can swim sinusoidally like a fish . |
| 27 | It may be that the general class of adverbials which can appear initially in a sentence could be taken as possible markers of ‘ topic-shift ’ . |
| 28 | Thus the term " criterion " can refer either to a description of the knowledge and skills possessed by the learner or the score which has to be reached in order to qualify for the description . |
| 29 | It 's not the sort of thing you can dash off in a couple of months . |
| 30 | Alternatively , you can rock back into a cat stance knocking the opponent 's punch down with a slapping block performed with the rear hand . |