Example sentences of "can [vb infin] with a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than start from a symbol and find what sentences can be generated from it , one can begin with a sentence and a grammar , and find a way of generating that sentence . |
| 2 | a celestial policeman ; 2. an absentee landlord ; 3. a magician ; 4. a being greater than anything we can possibly think of ; 5. an old man on a cloud ; 6. light which gives life ; 7. the conclusion of a mathematical theorem ; 8. the chairman of a rather boring harp-playing assembly ; 9. a presence who is loving and just ; 10. a crutch for people who ca n't cope ; 11. an all-powerful dictator ; 12. a character in a fairy-story ; 13. a power that is either evil or indifferent to suffering ; 14. a heavenly Santa Claus ; 15. a king who is just and holy ; 16. electricity which is invisible and powerful , useful but dangerous ; 17. a slot-machine whom you can approach with a coin and get out what you want ; 18. the ground without which nothing in this world could exist . |
| 3 | Rather than buy primer and undercoat specially , you can manage with a coat or two of gloss paint alone . |
| 4 | Diana 's reaction to the tragedy teaches her she can cope with a crisis and take control . |
| 5 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 6 | The problem comes when you meet a horizontal nogging — the positions of which you can determine with a joist and batten detector . |