Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that nobody can speak for the whole profession because of the various ways in which the profession is divided . |
| 2 | " Since 1914 " , notes Nizan , " the whole of life is in the public domain … nobody can escape from the world any longer . |
| 3 | ‘ Nobody can see into the future , and all stock exchange investment is a gamble . |
| 4 | One can forget about the problems of urban decay even yet up there . |
| 5 | This procedure is entirely straightforward if one can assume in the keyboarder competence in the handling of the English alphabet , apart from one very important snag : homonyms . |
| 6 | There are difficulties in identifying areas common to the brains of people and other animals and , even when that can be done , it is unclear how far one can rely on the areas working in exactly the same way . |
| 7 | One can think of the differences of being handsome , beautiful , or just ordinary , in terms of small differences in the growth programme for each region . |
| 8 | One can think of the DNA in the nucleus as an enormous reference library containing the instructions for making all the proteins . |
| 9 | It is at its strongest when applied to production ; indeed , one can think of the Adornian picture of a totally administered , homogeneous , determining process as the ideal type to which the industry constantly aspires ( though , for reasons discussed above , this state is never actually reached ) . |
| 10 | In a sentence like ‘ The boy hit the girl with a flower ’ , one can think of the verb as a predicate which has a number of arguments — that is , one could represent the sentence as HIT ( BOY , GIRL , FLOWER ) . |
| 11 | Better still , one can infer from the passage that MacDonald 's main purpose was to stay in power , and thus he would welcome a National Government if it enabled him to do so . |
| 12 | On this basis , one can plot in the tropical belt for most periods of geological time , though the margin of error is such that sometimes they fit in with drifting hypotheses and sometimes they do not . |
| 13 | One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum . |
| 14 | Now one can speak of the development of autonomous ‘ life-orders ’ or ‘ value-spheres ’ , and in particular of the eighteenth-century autonomization of theoretical , ethical , and aesthetic spheres . |
| 15 | That tentative conclusion probably is as far as one can go on the basis of empirical evidence . |
| 16 | This is what masonry is about and as we have seen in Chapter 2 , starting with the simple wall one can go from the arch to the dome and to the most complicated cathedral , keeping everything in compression , or at least trying to do so . |
| 17 | In her densely argued and complex paper , Hodge points out that one can distinguish between the subject , a notion with ontological and metaphysical commitments , and subjectivity , an empiricist notion ( developed , for example , by Hume ) which retains its epistemological function while abandoning its ontological links . |
| 18 | In general , one can distinguish between the fundamental conditions of any capitalist system which explain its continuation — private property and market capacity — and the resulting inequalities of wealth-ownership and life-chances . |
| 19 | Thomas Stanford , in his book Leaves from a Madeira Garden , states ( with regard to the changing climate and scenery ) that in Madeira one can travel in the space of an hour from a sub-tropical region to the Riviera , from the Riviera to Bournemouth , from Bournemouth to Caernarvonshire , and from Caernarvonshire to the Alps . |
| 20 | Accordingly , one is constrained in the way which one can refer to the preceding paragraph in the printed document — because one does not know what the preceding paragraph will be . |
| 21 | In written language , as in spoken language , one can refer to the context to establish whether a piece of information has or has not been introduced earlier . |
| 22 | The main road still uses the bridge on the first tier and one can walk along the full length of the water channel ( 168 ) . |
| 23 | One can guess at the winner 's reward . ’ |
| 24 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 25 | Approach to the edge of Christian reference was here deliberate , as one can tell from the date Gandalf so carefully gives for the fall of Sauron ( 111 , 230 ) , ‘ the twenty-fifth of March ’ . |
| 26 | So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that . |
| 27 | Allowing for the conventions of sedate amenity that governed American reviewing ( as for the most part they still do ) , one can detect in the American reviewers of Eliot 's Poems ( 1920 ) and of The Waste Land ( 1922 ) the same recalcitrance that the British reviewers expressed more cheekily . |
| 28 | This has often been contrasted with the situation on our side of the Atlantic where one can stand on the coast of south-west Ireland or Brittany and see the fold belts heading straight out into the ocean . |
| 29 | If this structure gives any clues as to what kinds of words the missing ones are — if one can deduce from the structure that one missing word is a verb of action , another is an animate noun , and so on — the patient can insert very general content words by using such deductions ( words like did , person , thing ) . |
| 30 | There is little one can do about the former . |