Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of course , as the examples of man , woman , and people illustrate , one can economize in the opposite direction as it were , from grammar to lexis . |
| 6 | If we look into the history of Iraq I do n't think anybody can remember in the past twenty years they have contributed anything , neither in the terms of world economy , neither in the world of world peace , or any humanitarian |
| 7 | Souvenirs of your visit can be bought from the shop and at the end of the day everyone can relax in the cafe , over tea and Welsh scones , to plan their next visit to Llyn Brenig . |
| 8 | That nothing can stand in the way of |
| 9 | Recognizing that nothing can change in the unc and z directions ( |
| 10 | Anything can happen in the next half hour — specifically , fabbo '60s puppet drama STINGRAY is happening , followed by more MAN FROM UNCLE stuff . |
| 11 | Absolutely anything can happen in the National , as , as was |