Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to show I can succeed at a bigger club in the future and fulfil my footballing ambitions . |
| 2 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 3 | ‘ Even I can look at a gauge and make out when it 's on the red ! ’ |
| 4 | this makes quick reference easier as I can see at a glance whether the magazine has the pattern I am looking for . |
| 5 | Modern microprocessors and computer technology have made such rapid advances that telecommunications and internal communications systems are now in compact units without plugs , switches , or buttons : just small keyboards with touch-sensitive depressions , some with small visual display units ( VDUs ) which can show at a glance the status of all calls being handled and prompt the operator through every procedure so that training can be reduced to a minimum . |
| 6 | A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system . |
| 7 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She searches him every time he comes home or goes out , and she keeps his bedroom bare of the usual toys and clutter so that she can see at a glance whether he has hidden any stolen property . ’ |
| 8 | The language has changed hugely since classical times , but the Greeks are the only people in the world , apart from the Chinese , who can look at a 2,500-year-old inscription and recognise in it their own tongue . |
| 9 | You receive a book of orders ( or pension book ) which you can cash at a post office of your choice . |
| 10 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 11 | You can only go in the future direction in time , but you can go at a bit of an angle to it . |
| 12 | It 's thirteen fifty a ticket , it 's erm , I do n't think you can moan at a night out for that , especially a night out like that |
| 13 | In this chapter , I describe some of the tricks you can perform at a party to increase interest , particularly if you do not have an entertainer . |
| 14 | Different individuals work at different speeds — you are more likely to achieve most if you can work at a speed which challenges you but which is not beyond your capacity to attain . |
| 15 | Subtract your expenses from your income and you can see at a glance how much income is left to spend . |
| 16 | You may also find it useful to know a binocular 's field of view — usually expressed as the width of the area you can see at a distance of 1000m or 3,280ft . |
| 17 | By studying the enclosed repayment table you can see at a glance how much a loan will cost . |
| 18 | If we 're just talking about the niceties of the way these things are laid out , previous set of procedures say things like page one-o-two , page one-o-three etc , and I think that is probably good practice if you can look at a page number and so you know exactly how many pages to expect so , we can probably do that when we re-issue these procedures as well . |
| 19 | Perhaps you can look at a book ? |
| 20 | Styled in hard-wearing canadium , it has a built-in meter so that you can know at a glance if you 're applying enough pressure . |
| 21 | Please so we can finish at a reasonable hour . |
| 22 | I thank the Secretary of State for this concession , and I am sure that , with good will on the part of the Government , we can arrive at a successful outcome . |
| 23 | We can look at a couple of points : |
| 24 | Departures aims to give students a command of simple spoken English so that they can communicate at a basic level in day-to-day situations . |
| 25 | If the agouti finds one , it is likely to find far more than it can eat at a single sitting . |
| 26 | In practical terms , this means that when a yellow-hot lava is first emitted , it can flow at a rate of many kilometres an hour , but lower down on the flanks of the volcano , when it is cooler , it slows to the speed of a run , and then of a fast walk . |
| 27 | Alternatively , by conditioning in a physiologically isotonic saline solution , it can remain at a constant size . |
| 28 | Unless — nightmare ! — Wilko has got him to sign so 's he can sell at a higher price to Blackburn … : - ( |
| 29 | Up to the age of 40 to 50 , most of us can see at a distance and read close to without any difficulty . |