Example sentences of "[conj] can [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases involving accidents at work , and in factory cases in particular , your own client or a close work colleague may be able to ask around to see if anybody actually saw the accident itself or can give background information about events leading up to the accident . |
| 2 | Develop more residential places where people can be treated for their addiction , or can receive crisis or longer term help . |
| 3 | While all the steps and grids of a career lattice may exist in principle , in most instances only a small proportion of the paraprofessional work force have access to or can take advantage of existing formal training opportunities . |
| 4 | It is hardly surprising that there is a high degree of confusion and it is not always clear who is to blame ( or can claim credit ) for particular activities . |
| 5 | All offerors will invariably ask the selling shareholders to represent that they own the shares ( or can transfer title ) free from encumbrances . |
| 6 | In ( 140 ) , make can not be substituted for cause — the causation evoked is too indirect — nor can cause substitute for make in ( 141 ) , for the opposite reason . |
| 7 | Erm the Teachers ' Pensions Agen Agency 's currently reviewing erm the work that can affect pensions . |
| 8 | Certainly , parents who have had easy babies and amenable children may be unprepared for the changed behaviour that can characterize adolescence . |
| 9 | The intention is to indicate the degree of ambiguity and the general lack of information that can characterize debate on tax reform . |
| 10 | The new Foxhound fighter , a development of the famous MiG-25 Foxbat , is the first Russian aircraft to carry an advanced radar that can detect cruise missiles flying at low levels . |
| 11 | For non-photosynthesizers , the premium is therefore on an increasing range and flexibility of adaptive behaviour , on developing sense organs that can detect food or predator at a distance and motor skills to move towards the desired — or away from the desiring . |
| 12 | The government will require sensors that can detect plastic explosives at busy American airports and at busy foreign airports where American airlines operate . |
| 13 | Written sources provide systematic periodic data that can show trends and provide other relevant facts . |
| 14 | A school that can show parents that it is well resourced is at a tremendous advantage . |
| 15 | I am thinking of Xtreegold for file management , wordprocessors that can split screen and pull text from one piece of work to another and finally Windows , the ultimate hop to and go to and transfer stuff to the clipboard and elsewhere too . |
| 16 | Although there are laboratories in Europe and the United States that can grow chlamydia , again they are working as research rather than service units . |
| 17 | And it is a deficiency of the final element that can cripple achievement , believes Eric Varlan , one of 13 executives on the Comité de Direction , the body that steers Celomer 's policy . |
| 18 | Seats that can face wither forward or to the rear are standard on many models , which is useful as the seat will have a longer utility value . |
| 19 | China 's satellite launchers are based on vehicles that can carry warheads . |
| 20 | Collection of statistics , such as the housing returns , has always been part of the central department 's work , but the more specific information currently requested that can form part of long-term planning is a relatively recent development . |
| 21 | Beyond these , at a deeper level , images exist that can trigger emotions in all mankind . |
| 22 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 23 | It has developed a surgery robot , and Pam , a robot that can transport bedridden patients . |
| 24 | If there were originally regional differences in surface composition then these have now been lost because of the widespread scattering of impact ejecta and because of any other processes that can transport material over large distances . |
| 25 | One teacher 's despair may tempt them to fall into the ‘ rescuer ’ role ; other teachers may strike them as ineffective so that the supporters become judgmentally prescriptive with those ‘ why do n't you … ’ bits of advice that can make things worse by letting the teacher feel how others can handle them better . |
| 26 | Hence there is no feasible reallocation of resources that can make society better off . |
| 27 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |
| 28 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 29 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 30 | Worthwhile parts of the firm will be bought by some other firm that can make use of them — perhaps better use than the existing management . |