Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So said Freud , it 's no wonder that people believe in religion , because religion can provide you with a lot , with a lot of gratification , but the fundamental psychological explanation for this , says Freud , is that these feelings that religion gratifies in adult life , are transferences of feelings that we all had in infancy . |
| 2 | Should they break this code of conduct , their association can strike them from the register and ban them from practising medicine . |
| 3 | If I am wrong , Labour can prove it by helping the Local Government Finance Bill on to the statute book . |
| 4 | The fact that a particular sort of rationality is of our very essence explains why rational thinking can lead us to ethical self control . |
| 5 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |
| 6 | Here are three examples of how a change of thinking can save you from making high scores . |
| 7 | This comparison may form the crucial part of a description ; later on , using comparison as a criterion , that a portrait should look like the sitter , that landscape should look natural , and the objects in a still life should be identifiable , a critic can use it as part of an evaluation . |
| 8 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 9 | The writer then explores what research can tell us about the impact of national policies on families , the impact of community attitudes , children 's experiences of divorce and step-families and some of the traumas children suffer in the course of family life , sometimes so great that they are driven to run away and then incur other serious problems for which inadequate provision is made in the community as a whole . |
| 10 | As violent crime against elderly people seems to increase , the resulting moral outcry can blind us to the fact that huge numbers of elderly people are abused in their own homes by carers — sons , daughters , husbands , wives , other relatives as friends , and paid carers . |
| 11 | In a new job , a few quick drinks after work can provide you with a great deal of information and understanding . |
| 12 | This sort of work can supply us with clues to the possible way of life of our ancestors , but it does n't really contribute much information about our origins . |
| 13 | Alcohol certainly affects most organs , but only the liver can convert it to other substances and clear it from the body . |
| 14 | The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers . |
| 15 | But I mean if the Townswomen 's Guild can do it for cheaper why ca n't we ? |
| 16 | Erm whilst the County Council can provide you with some figures on vacancies at a district level , we would be very loathe to make any comment on the assumptions for conversions and windfall sites . |
| 17 | Either , either , either , either the parish council can say it in any form that they wish , or they can instruct me to say it . |
| 18 | However , if the scheme is viewed as one that does not tax interest on savings , then more consumption in the future can be financed from a given volume of savings and those seeking a target future consumption can meet it with a lower level of current savings . |
| 19 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 20 | Yggdrasil can encode them into your indream simulacrum . |
| 21 | The boxes are currently in external alpha sites where the company hopes to validate some of the assumptions still swirling around NT and the Mips architecture such as whether a Mips NT machine can hack it in the Intel environment as a price/performance player . |
| 22 | If you put down that crystal ball , I 'll show you how your spreadsheet can help you with this dilemma . |
| 23 | The TIC can tell you about the local brewers Tetleys ' Heritage Inns , including the 1,000-year-old Bingley Arms at Bardsey . |
| 24 | Play him or her you can explain the results which you want from the session and the engineer can advise you on any extra equipment which you may need to hire . |
| 25 | In what ways do you find that the Bible can help you in your everyday life — what is its ‘ authority ’ for you ? |
| 26 | But a woman teacher can know you from the inside ; you can not hide from her so easily , or divert her attention . |
| 27 | Two thirds of the Swiss population can reach it in less than an hour by road or rail . |
| 28 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 29 | That kind of insight can free her from the constraints of the inner voice which effectively commands her , ‘ Turn right here . |
| 30 | Do n't forget to use a sunscreen on overcast days — clouds or a breeze can fool you into thinking the sun is weaker than it really is . |