Example sentences of "can [vb infin] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Schmidt of the Stiftung Wissenschaft Politik at Ebenhausen , a leading expert on European defence and security issues , has identified the formulation of a Common Foreign and Security policy as the product of a ‘ top-down approach ’ which ‘ regards the political union of Western Europe within the framework of the EC as an end in itself ’ , rather than of a ‘ functional or horizontal approach ’ which ‘ asks in a practical way which defence functions can and should be handled in a Western European framework , which ones can remain attached to existing defence arrangements — above all that means Nato — and which ones can stay at the disposal of nation states ’ . |
| 2 | Against that , many of the pile-'em-high-and-sell-'em-cheap stores that took advantage of falling property prices to expand in Britain are convinced they can grow at the expense of existing supermarket chains even when good times return . |
| 3 | we can see at the bottom of one , three , four bearing in mind that these are the August nineteen ninety two accounts , we see at the top of one , three , four that there have in fact been an adjustment there for the previous year to August nineteen ninety one so that there was in fact an amount of surplus created to the residence of a hundred and eight pounds , eighty P , is that right ? |
| 4 | Experimental and theoretical studies of convecting suspensions heated from below show , however , that settling can occur at the base of a suspension even if the convection maintains a uniform concentration . |
| 5 | The check is terminated whenever the bounding approach either proves that the specified condition can not occur , or establishes that the condition can Occur at the level of original definition . |
| 6 | We can look at the history of how maths developed and the cultural presumptions of maths historians . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , you can look at the shape of the bouquet and reproduce it in the finished design . |
| 8 | Similarly , we can look at the iconography of coins over a shorter period . |
| 9 | ‘ In future , when more resources become available we can look at the question of diabetic specialists again , ’ promised Mrs Fox . |
| 10 | It 's still better than buying another ticket now you 're here — I 'll cook supper — and tomorrow you can look at the rest of the Archive . |
| 11 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 12 | However , we can look at the obverse of this and state that 81 per cent live independently in the community . |
| 13 | It 's got thirty million articles in it , when you can find information , pull out articles relevant to your needs , by looking for authors , looking for words in the text and you can look at the summary of the article very quickly . |
| 14 | It 's got thirty million articles in it and you can find information , pull out articles relevant to your needs by looking for authors , looking for words in the text , and you can look at the summary of the article very quickly . |
| 15 | To point the contrast , we can look at the process of written production in action through a piece of writing by a 10 year old , Thomas . |
| 16 | A classical physicist can decide at the beginning of an experiment to call that electron over there A and this one over here B. Subsequently they may interact and go through all sorts of complicated convolutions , but because he can in principle follow the motion the classical physicist 's labels have an abiding significance . |
| 17 | She needs a style that she can transform at the flick of a brush or the twist of a curler to complement her every mood . |
| 18 | Nick is the man with the baseball glove who can stand at the end of the practice range and catch his master 's ball no matter whether it has been struck with a sand-iron or a driver . |
| 19 | The reactions of an educated élite , the study of whose reading matter has so often given social and cultural historians their main access to the past , no longer remains the only documentation by which we can get at the culture of ‘ the common man ’ . |
| 20 | In reality , a business — like everything else — is worth no more than the best offer you can obtain at the time of a sale . |
| 21 | Or if a round of golf gives you a lift , you can play at the foot of this legendary mountain . |
| 22 | Alternatively we can start at the level of registers and transfers between registers , and describe our architecture in terms of these primitives ; a microinstruction set would be an example here . |
| 23 | At the Otter Trust in Earsham , 15 miles away , you can revel at the sight of the world 's largest gathering of otters . |
| 24 | As will be indicated below , I do not feel that much ( if any ) of the explanation can lie at the door of the police station . |