Example sentences of "[adj] can [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can dam up a pore until eventually there is leakage into surrounding skin tissue , producing the familiar red bumps , pimples , and in the worst acne cases , cysts and infected abscesses . |
| 2 | Any people who doubt this can carry out a simple test devised by the great cat authority , Paul Leyhausen , the next time they visit a zoo . |
| 3 | To pretend that the 12 can beat out a constructive , flexible , foreign policy based on majority voting seems wholly unrealistic . |
| 4 | Anyone who is reasonably skilful can knock up a mounting without difficulty , and it is possible even for someone who is as clumsy as I am . |
| 5 | The most common cause of this is taking antibiotics by mouth , because these can kill off the ‘ good ’ bacteria in the gut , allowing not-so-good microbes to multiply and replace them . |
| 6 | Planes of soap solution have the property that only three can intersect along an edge at an angle between them of 120° . |
| 7 | That 's all it 's about , a far as I 'm concerned can sort out the problem . |
| 8 | Other explorers with more time available can go down the slope to Ease Gill and there locate Leck Beck Head ; here all the streams that disappear underground on Leck Fell join those from Ease Gill in a return to daylight . |
| 9 | Two of us should manage the bales an' the ovver two can carry down the crates of ornaments . |
| 10 | In this way the lawyer has a part to play within political movements , such as the peace movement , while acknowledging that it is not law alone that can bring about the changes we desire , but it is that movement as a whole that can and must do so . |