Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [verb] [adv prt] [art] " 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 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 4 | As has been noted before , pictures can break up the text , provide ‘ landmarks ’ for the struggling reader , and help in making mental pictures . |
| 5 | The chefs of Brighton & Hove 's excellent restaurants can whip up a piquant sauce every bit as good as George IV 's French cooks . |
| 6 | In ‘ Shake , Rattle and Roll ’ , even if it is interpreted as totally devoid of the non-formulaic ( far-fetched , once one listens carefully to performance nuances ) , the collectivizing repetitions can take on a positive cultural significance , in the context of use by young working-class dancers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Beyond the cathedral and the little churches , visitors can walk up the mountainside to the tiny , medieval village of Scala . |
| 9 | Visitors can walk along a Roman street and discover remains of turrets , cookhouses , bread-ovens and a latrine . |
| 10 | How companies can set up a group pension scheme for their employees . |
| 11 | How groups of directors can set up a pension scheme for themselves . |
| 12 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |
| 15 | A trip to Brussels to meet the responsible officials can turn up a mine of information . |
| 16 | It also needs long periods of ecological stability during which evolutionary epochs can bring about the necessary organic synthesis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , sounds can carry on a quiet evening and you do n't want your father asking why you were acting daft . |
| 21 | Liquid acrylics can open up a whole new world of possibilities . |
| 22 | Where they are still organized separately from social services , education welfare officers can sum up an area 's state of mind as well as help — or question — individual families , at least up to the time when centralized social work services are cut back . |
| 23 | Thus if the Ming Vase is lent to the taxpayer repayable on demand ( so to say ) then if the taxpayer does in fact have the use for the entire year then the type of rental likely to be charged on such a letting in the market ( duly discounted because the trustees can call back the vase on demand ) is likely to comprise the benefit under s740 . |
| 24 | The fact that contradiction at the different levels can bring about a unity of effect is what Althusser means by ‘ overdetermination ’ : |
| 25 | A special intercom linking the theatre with the pathology lab means surgeons can find out the results of a biopsy within a few minutes to establish , for instance , if a tumour they are operating on is malignant . |
| 26 | Great coldness and chills run up and down the back ; pains can go up the back too . |
| 27 | Simon Tyler , of Chase de Vere , says that by taking the 5 per cent deferment ‘ borrowers can take out a loan for £84,000 and it will cost what a £50,000 repayment would with the Halifax ’ . |
| 28 | These devices can back up the whole system or only those parts which you specify , and are very fast . |
| 29 | I am learning how identity , prestige , past victories can flake off a woman as she steps across her threshold , a sheaf of hardware supplies bristling like gladioli in her arms . |
| 30 | Now that electricity has been brought to nearly all the villages , the inhabitants can cluster around a television set and see how much better things are in Bangkok . |