Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And underneath that thought ( I think ! ) is another one another underblanket , insulating the underblanket above and which , so far as I can make out through the layers on top of it , runs something like this :
2 Where leaching is of only moderate intensity , cations released during weathering can build up in the solutions moving through the weathering mantle and the formation of cation-bearing clays such as illite and smectite is favoured .
3 We can whip down to the Bricklayers for a pint . ’
4 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 .
5 ‘ Well , well ; you can see over to the sports field . ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 If Serafin is astute he asks what you can see out of the windows .
9 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 .
10 my duty is remitted , and I can look out of the windows .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Christian joy is found when we hold on to God 's hand and when we learn that fabulous certainty with which we can step out into the uncertainties of the coming day .
14 You can choose your own hours , which means that you can fit in with the needs of your baby .
15 The top light is open to enable us to hear him so we can join in with the responses , but the rain is beating so hard on the roof , we keep coming in raggedly and late .
16 ‘ He is being given rations of hay which will slowly be increased and hopefully we can cut down on the drugs .
17 When you have made your list , try to decide — with the help of someone close and understanding if need be — how you can cut down on the pressures , or alter the circumstances , in order to relieve excess stress .
18 ‘ The thinking is that everyone should be placid and passive , as if you can creep up to the polls in carpet slippers .
19 From the behavioural point of view , the principal male characteristic is sadistic sexual egoism , since is it clear that only the male who is capable of driving off his rivals can hold on to the females of the breeding group .
20 And then we can go round to the toys .
21 At the same time , I 'm elated and I can go back to the vices I did have , ’ said Mr Tyson .
22 Then if the crowds return we can go back to the salaries we deserve ’
23 Over 100 Dale Farm milkmen have also been issued with incident report cards which they can pass on to the police through their depot manager .
24 In other words ‘ the Russian revolution will create conditions in which power can pass in to the hands of the workers … before the politicians of bourgeois liberalism get the chance to display to the full their talent for governing ’ .
25 I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want .
26 I mean if you can come up with the witnesses that are prepared to stick their head in the noose and say that .
27 ‘ If I can come up with the names then I will take that to the chairman or whoever is in charge to try and get the backing I need to sign them . ’
28 But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all .
29 And this you know like this style you can make it small or large as you like , and you can come out to the sides as well .
30 Then they can get on with the jobs they are paid for . ’
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