Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can no longer assume that because someone can do the job they can teach the skill . |
| 2 | Tomorrow detectives will be visiting houses in the Belmont area in the hope someone can identify the rapist . |
| 3 | Unless someone can crack the problem of how to incorporate higher quality displays and graphics cards in an Amstrad PC it is unlikely that the machine will figure largely at the page makeup end of the market . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody can tell the difference : Awlad Amira are deceiving the government into giving arms to our enemies . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose nobody can stop the Japanese buying into " our " golf , which was a gift from God , and has not always been looked after properly . |
| 6 | All four band members share the belief that nobody can match the measure of commitment and unity to be found within The Smiths . |
| 7 | Nobody can match the English when it comes to puddings . |
| 8 | Nobody can leave the planet — not before we 've caught the dangerous thief . |
| 9 | Nobody can dodge the monetary reform . |
| 10 | The funniest thing is that they are all as frightened as one another , but nobody can break the chain . |
| 11 | Nobody can find the door . |
| 12 | Three grand goes a fair way among the widows and apprentices , particularly as nobody can remember the last time there was an apprentice in the village . |
| 13 | You just think it looks good to be seen with books that nobody can pronounce the name of . |
| 14 | Nobody can know the world , not even the parts of it on offer to tourists , but they can know how to look them up , and the training for too long has been exiguous . |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody can forecast the future with that much certainty , ’ she said with an attempt at lightness . |
| 16 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
| 17 | Most desert-living animals can withstand some water loss , but none can match the spadefoot and its desert-living cousins . |
| 18 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 19 | However , with two divers in the water at the same time , one can aid the other , and there is always the standby diver on the vessel , ready for immediate response . |
| 20 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 21 | One can compare the composition of the suspect piece with the range of composition of genuine pieces of comparable period . |
| 22 | That 's why they 're shown there , they 're different to the figures shown on the first page of the report , but because they 're calculated on the same base , er , one can compare at each other , one can compare the different towns . |
| 23 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 24 | A limitation is placed upon the accuracy with which one can specify the amount of energy transferred together with a knowledge of the time at which the transfer took place . |
| 25 | One 's overall sense of The Possessed absolutely refuses to confirm any such duality , and one can pay the novel no simpler or fuller tribute than by saying so . |
| 26 | One can create order out of disorder ( for example , one can paint the house ) , but that requires expenditure of effort or energy and so decreases the amount of ordered energy available . |
| 27 | The further one can extend the grazing season in spring and autumn , without damage to soil or sward , the better . |
| 28 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 29 | One can visit the town of Kartuzy , the centre of Kashubian folklore , and the picturesque Wdydze Kiszewskie with its fascinating open air museum established at the beginning of the century . |
| 30 | Portsmouth is 15 miles to the west and here one can visit the Mary Rose , HMS Warrior and HMS Victory . |