Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] [art] present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineers at HR Wallingford have built a scale model of part of the threatened coast , they can reproduce the effects of the storm surge floods which can overwhelm the present defences . |
| 2 | We can determine the present rate of expansion by measuring the velocities at which other galaxies are moving away from us , using the Doppler effect . |
| 3 | But I believe we can take the present collection of businesses and produce from them a very profitable bank . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have asked the SMMB several times if we can keep the present grid system and central testing laboratory in place so that one tanker would continue to collect all the milk on one road , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |