Example sentences of "can work [adv] " in BNC.

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1 These can work particularly well where a strong family involvement continues .
2 Students can work individually or a group could prepare a set of " mini talks " about the same topic .
3 This simple method can work remarkably well .
4 ‘ I just want good health , so I can work again at Chelsea every day , ’ he says .
5 ‘ Of course , ’ Robin-Anne went on , ‘ the brain eventually manufactures more dopamine , so after a day or two the cocaine can work again , and you go soaring up from hell into heaven .
6 It starts from the fact of disunity and asks which existing political mechanism can work best for unity .
7 And at the end of the day I have always found that the training programme is open to genuine ideas — in all the classes the aim is to build and shape the existing talent so that the actor can work effectively and truthfully when faced with any situation .
8 In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer .
9 ( This is not meant to be a criticism , for I doubt whether we can work effectively without such things ; it is merely to point out that modernity enters the church far more easily than the church enters modernity . )
10 They must set up costly systems of command and control that can work effectively over large distances and deal with the hazards of markets that differ from their own , Managers must feel that the gains will outweigh the costs .
11 Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively .
12 A good deal of research carried out in Britain and elsewhere between the late 1940s and the present chiefly by industrial sociologists and psychologists , demonstrates fairly conclusively that a high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies can work effectively at their accustomed or preferred occupation , even when this is physically quite heavy or makes significant intellectual demands .
13 It is often difficult to predict which patients will be able to develop effective work skills , and some quite seriously disturbed people with persistently odd behaviour can work effectively while others with few overt symptoms of mental disorder may have great difficulties .
14 I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems .
15 In traditional skin clothing or modern padded polar suits , man can work outside without difficulty at environmental temperatures down to -40°C , and with extra precautions ( face masks , electrically-warmed suits ) at temperatures considerably lower .
16 The series offer us basic material on which the creative mind can work right from the beginning of a composition , with the result that the imagination often responds by producing fruitful ideas quickly .
17 We are looking for persons who can work both individually and in teams , and capable of conducting research from the definition of a project to the final writing up of the results .
18 STUDENTS on a part-time MSc computer course to start next year at Kingston Polytechnic will get their own microcomputers so that they can work away from the polytechnic 's classrooms .
19 He can work comfortably and easily despite the weight and restriction of the line fastened to his collar .
20 However , we can work fast when people are in a rush . ’
21 Two separate things , so see whether we can work fast .
22 As a result the system can be used in large rooms , or long but relatively narrow rooms , but conversely is ill-suited for use across the narrow dimension of most rooms , which can work well with many other transducers .
23 Co-operation can work well between libraries of the same type or between libraries of different types , depending upon extent of joint needs , and practical factors such as proximity and location .
24 Although this set-up can work well as it stands , a useful refinement is to add a means by which the level of the dub can be controlled manually .
25 Hirst is on the mend after cracking his ankle at Highbury a fortnight ago , and Bright said : ‘ I like his style of play and feel we can work well together .
26 Bows are an option which can work well in the right circumstances , but with a range of only 16″ do n't expect anything too dramatic .
27 In our experience mixed groups , for example , stressed business executives sitting alongside agoraphobic housewives , can work well , as long as there is at least one other person in the group with similar problems .
28 A large pine table , with a collection of different chairs , is the focal point of the dining area , illustrating perfectly that a mix of furniture designs can work well together provided they are made from roughly the same colour wood .
29 This can work well with an enthusiastic teacher , or adviser , who can find the energy to organize the necessary demonstrations and workshops ; it allows the teacher to enter the race with only three fences to go .
30 Signalling by diffusion can work well for small organisms , but it is limited ; diffusion of chemical signals over long distances is slow and inefficient , as it can not be specifically targeted to ensure that the signal arrives only at the cell it was intended for .
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