Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of us can make do with Profile 's fine new compilation ‘ Avanti ! ’ , 11 tracks to prove that Italian dance was more than just a passing fad . |
| 2 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 3 | In this way , squirrels in a wood can remain hidden from view while a predator explores the whole region . |
| 4 | When termites leave the nest to forage on dead plant material , they can remain hidden by building tunnels from the nest to the food supplies . |
| 5 | When the parent is consciously or unconsciously seductive , and the child 's early fantasies are not mediated and finally renounced , the young person can remain fixated in love like the Brünnhildes and Queen Bees mentioned earlier in this chapter . |
| 6 | Unless they are given opportunities to express their grief in appropriate ways which can include weeping for loss , they will never be able to acquire the creative energy necessary to find a new job . |
| 7 | On average , smokers have more complications of pregnancy and labour which can include bleeding during pregnancy , premature detachment of the placenta and premature rupture of the membranes . |
| 8 | After around ten to fifteen years in practice , successful barristers can consider applying for promotion to Queen 's Counsel , known as ‘ silk ’ from the material of which the QC 's formal gown is made . |
| 9 | ( i ) freedom from suspended solids and from substances that can give staining in processing ; |
| 10 | Statistics tell us that every man , woman and child can expect to go into hospital a number of times during their lives . |
| 11 | It also outlines what guidance and support you can expect to get at work and what we expect from you in return . |
| 12 | German unity also seems to have disrupted the business cycle , and may limit the benefits that Europe can expect to get from recovery elsewhere . |
| 13 | Meanhwile Henry Skelton 's mother believes there 's very little the university authorities can do to deal with drug-taking |
| 14 | They can choose to insist on state ownership , as is common for public utilities , post and telecoms . |
| 15 | I mean years ago I can remember coming into town and seeing that furniture shop filled with people walking around , every time I go past it now it is empty |
| 16 | She was a local farmer 's wife and she went on to be our first member of Parliament and me brother was helping her and mum and dad , you see , was working for the , we , we got the house as a committee room and all , all the and I can remember going with mother , we had , we had a Co-op paper or it was Co-op orientated I 'm sure news and I can remembering canvassing Walsall Wood with me mother , well I ca n't see my Guild members doing that . |
| 17 | The lower-level subskills involved in word recognition can become automatised through practice , and this is necessary so that the reader 's mind can be left free to attempt alternate integrations in order to calculate the writer 's intended meaning . |
| 18 | This means that a necessary emphasis has to be made on respectability , hard work , thrift and respect for law , so that marginalisation can become extended into criminalisation . |
| 19 | Conversely , people can become possessed by animal souls . |
| 20 | Similarly depth of feeling can become equated with prejudice , and the arousal of emotions in schools can become indoctrination . |
| 21 | It is most active in arid environments where rates of evaporation are high relative to precipitation , and consequently surface and soil waters can become saturated with respect to a variety of salts . |
| 22 | These misinterpretations can become embedded in practice and , once there , are difficult to eradicate . ) |
| 23 | They can occur associated with ridge and furrow and village earthworks , but they are more widespread on upland areas like Dartmoor , where hundreds of them are scattered across the upland pasture . |
| 24 | The evidence that we have briefly reviewed above for various patterns of flip-flop and phonologically conditioned interchanges between adjacent vowels is much richer than anything we can hope to recover from history . |
| 25 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 26 | There were three exercises including answering questions on crime prevention , studying a video and devising a board game to illustrate how young people can avoid getting into trouble or danger . |
| 27 | Even when adding new products to the product line , a company can avoid going through product development by joining with other firms , acquiring other firms or getting products from them ( Terpstra 1984 ) . |
| 28 | There 's no substitute for this sort of knowledge , gradually accumulated , and when rain has added some depth to your stream you can return to fish in confidence . |
| 29 | There are various roads that you can take to get from Bayonne to Biarritz , which is about five miles south-west of Bayonne . |
| 30 | As long as there is a good reason why you will not be able to vote in person on election day you can apply to vote by post or proxy . |