Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visit to Helmsley town and castle ( where walkers can take up the Cleveland Way long-distance footpath ) , with a stop-off at Rievaulx Abbey , makes for an enjoyable outing . |
| 2 | The Nation 's Schools , Butler 's official pamphlet of 1945 , gestured vaguely towards freedom and liveliness , but not much else : ‘ Free from the pressure of any external examination these schools can work out the best and liveliest forms of secondary education suited to their pupils . ’ |
| 3 | Apart from the interest charges involved , the longer a defendant can spin out the negotiations the better . |
| 4 | There is still a way out of this economic mess , if Mr Gorbachev can summon up the courage to take it . |
| 5 | This week Football Echo readers tackle Smithy on subjects ranging from the crisis at Goodison , the Euro ban on Graeme Souness and how football can win back the fans . |
| 6 | As has been noted before , pictures can break up the text , provide ‘ landmarks ’ for the struggling reader , and help in making mental pictures . |
| 7 | The information centre alternative can speed up the development of applications and maintenance ( as the users should be able to maintain the systems as well as develop them ) . |
| 8 | Occasionally a book has almost achieved immortality , like John Ruskin 's Stones of Venice , but even more modest books can call up the spirit of a place ; and a private letter may illuminate both a person and a work of art . |
| 9 | However , Wanderers are true amateurs on the field and will no doubt battle until they give up , so let's hope Athletico can keep up the good work and send them home with three lost points and the Samaritans ’ telephone number . |
| 10 | Beyond the cathedral and the little churches , visitors can walk up the mountainside to the tiny , medieval village of Scala . |
| 11 | For , as far as English rugby is concerned , these are the days of miracles and wonders , the days when England can turn out the finest team ever and cavort through the Five Nations championship as if it were a lap of honour . |
| 12 | Exercise can burn up the adrenalin that worry , fear and frustration create , leaving the body relaxed and rested . |
| 13 | They attack high-protein leaves , more acidic ones having less available protein , the optimum pH for the fungus ( pH 5 ) being reached when the material is mixed with the ants ' acidic faeces : then the fungus can break down the hydrolysable tannin/protein complexes . |
| 14 | When chasing a flying insect , the bat can work out the direction and speed of the insect from the slight changes in frequency of the echoes bouncing off it . |
| 15 | The moth can hear the bat from a greater distance than the bat can pick up the echo from a flying moth ; to be precise , a moth can hear a bat about 100 feet away , whereas a bat can detect a moth at a range of less than 8 feet . |
| 16 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 17 | If the donor is an individual ( or a company ) and pays basic rate income tax the RNLI can claim back the tax already paid on that money from the Inland Revenue turning the donor 's £600 , for example , into £800 for the Institution . |
| 18 | The foolishness in ‘ Futility ’ being the foolishness of men going out killing each other and then coming back to nature and hoping that nature can sort out the mess they have made . |
| 19 | To some extent , then , kin can take on the status of friends , perhaps involving special kinds of obligations and pressures , but also subject to the influence of factors such as distance and the preference of the couples themselves , rather than determined by blood relationship . |
| 20 | The survey ( Survey of Financial Consolidation Systems 1991 ) revealed that organisations can speed up the collection of financial data from their subsidiaries by up to 44% using automatic data capture techniques . |
| 21 | It also needs long periods of ecological stability during which evolutionary epochs can bring about the necessary organic synthesis . |
| 22 | Here , boards can speed down the course within feet of the beach in consistent summer trade winds of up to 45 knots , and it looks set to become the ideal venue for breaking records . |
| 23 | Most deals over three months would be made with a CD due to their greater flexibility in that the depositor can gain back the deposit by selling the CD in the secondary market . |
| 24 | Some individuals can take up the suggestions of the hypnotist to the extent of becoming deaf or blind or unable to smell ; they may withstand pain without a murmur , re-experience being a six-year old , or even forget everything that happened , after hypnosis , until given a prearranged ‘ release ’ signal . |
| 25 | The factor can take over the handling of the client 's sales ledger , including chasing up slow payers , providing cash against invoices and also , if need be , arranging credit insurance . |
| 26 | One of the nicest and most original features of the game is that while Doodle can take out the enemy by simply throwing his pencils , he can also use them to draw the bonuses or weapons he needs . |
| 27 | Adoption means that the person can bring up the child as their own . |
| 28 | It is often useful for the helper to introduce the notion of the normality of having both difficult and sad thoughts about the deceased person and then from there the bereaved person can pick up the conversation if he or she wants to do so . |
| 29 | Lewis Perelman , mentioned in your story about high-tech learning , is living in fantasy land if he thinks education can cut out the middleman . |
| 30 | There seems to be no way in which the human race can bring about the civilisation of its members without using to some degree that same power of evolution which inevitably needed for its effect the imposition of some measure of discomfort , pain or unhappiness in some form or other . |