Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even women who were constantly abused as children by fathers , stepfathers , uncles or family ‘ friends ’ can grow up with the idea that they 're somehow guilty themselves . |
| 32 | The rent officer is also responsible for monitoring the rents which voluntary hostels can claim back in the form of housing benefits , and there are fears that the limits for hostels will be set at too low a level creating difficulties for both residents and the hostel management . |
| 33 | Global-scale investments in new skills and production approaches that can readily be transferred across borders have replaced much of the trade ; few can keep up with the pace of change . |
| 34 | We hope the 4 cylinder speedsters can keep up with the pace . |
| 35 | But it seems that not everyone can keep up with the way our language is changing . |
| 36 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 37 | You can work out on the beach . |
| 38 | I can work out by the height of where the hand was on my back that it was Lorna ! |
| 39 | ‘ Well , well ; you can see over to the sports field . ’ |
| 40 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 41 | Anyway , at half time , Geoff 's standing right at the back of the London Road — and at the back there you can see down to the tea place underneath because some bugger 's smashed out some of the asbestos bit along the back . |
| 42 | The boot is big , the kids can see out of the windows and the heat/vent/demisting is brilliant , as are the sound system and cruise control . |
| 43 | If Serafin is astute he asks what you can see out of the windows . |
| 44 | Below , the islands of Rum and Canna can be seen and on the horizon to the west you can look over from the hills of South Uist to Barra Head . |
| 45 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 46 | It is important to have that sort of relationship where someone can look in from the outside . ’ |
| 47 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 48 | They are the ones who can look down on the competition from the grandstand near the finish on Westminster Bridge . |
| 49 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 50 | Left : From Monica 's favourite spot — her writing room — she can look out at the garden while sitting at her desk |
| 51 | In winter you can look out of the window and tell it 's 2°C outside . |
| 52 | As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E . |
| 53 | my duty is remitted , and I can look out of the windows . |
| 54 | And finally you can look out from the balcony , high up in the White Cliffs , from which Winston Churchill viewed the Battle of Britain . |
| 55 | However , the withering or die-back can run back beyond the node before the plant is able to form a self protective barrier of special cells , and keep on running , even into the main stem , and obviously cause serious trouble . |
| 56 | Having said that , however , we can tease out from the textbooks of the sixties an implicit theoretical perspective that bore on groups and was designed to make sense of British politics as a whole . |
| 57 | I 'm currently working out measures which can follow up on the policy statement and bring about changes in practice and law . |
| 58 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 59 | Two rules must be obeyed when exploiting them : local cooling , close to the heat pump or its heat exchanger , must be no faster than heat can flow in from the surroundings ; and the source temperature must not be lowered more than a few degrees below its undisturbed level . |
| 60 | If you can home in on the fact that a full page is one thousand pounds per year for two years then it locks in . |