Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives . |
| 2 | ‘ Team nursing is not merely a method of assigning individuals to a group : rather it is an implementation of the philosophy that holds that a group of people led by a knowledgeable nurse can effectively meet the nursing needs of a group of patients . |
| 3 | Adding a generation or two can vastly extend the possible claims . |
| 4 | During beta testing , Bristol will be working with small independent software vendors willing to hand their source code over to Bristol so that it can properly babysit the whole operation . |
| 5 | This diversity means that ‘ across-the-board ’ policies can rarely meet the specific needs of individual areas . |
| 6 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 7 | One good reason why such people ( if they want to become anthropologists ) should start off by studying a cultural system which is radically different from their own is that they can thereby undergo the traumatic experience of discovering that , in other societies , this deeply emotive private/public distinction may operate in quite a different way . |
| 8 | For many of these people , anxiety about money and about arranging credit can powerfully reinforce the general tendency to stick to credit arrangements they are familiar with , and avoid searching out new and perhaps better-value alternatives . |
| 9 | Specialist day centres , advice centres , and advisory services staffed largely by professionals and volunteers from the community can successfully bridge the cultural divide and also link individuals into mainstream services when these are required . |
| 10 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 11 | If an economic power can sufficiently dominate the international economy , it can provide a hegemonic stability which enables other states to co-operate with it and with one another . |
| 12 | Ministers can merely attack the Labour Party : the only passage in Mr Lawson 's speech on Thursday which moved his audience to genuine enthusiasm was his attack on Neil Kinnock . |
| 13 | We can perhaps clarify the last two methods by means of a simple example . |
| 14 | Er but I am going to take your books in at the end of the lesson so you can perhaps take the last few minutes before just if you 'll just erm put the sums at the moment erm just fix in your sheet fix it in and erm check out that you 've got everything else up to date okay ? |
| 15 | to find out from her if it comes to it we can perhaps ask the old lady if she can set something up where |
| 16 | Clearly this is simplistic , if not mischievous , but on the other hand , we can only measure the measurable , and if science as a subject can not be studied using scientific methods — deduction and induction , prediction and experiment — then measures of its output , in the form of scientific publications , have no logical validity . |
| 17 | Clearly this is simplistic , if not mischievous , but on the other hand , we can only measure the measurable , and if science as a subject can not be studied using scientific methods — deduction and induction , prediction and experiment — then measures of its output , in the form of scientific publications , have no logical validity . |
| 18 | Campaigners say that can only fuel the alarming interest in Hitler 's propaganda . |
| 19 | Whether you can only spare the occasional day or are prepared to help on a regular basis , Chapter 12 , Voluntary Work , lists a fund of suggestions you might like to consider . |
| 20 | A popular weekly magazine is hardly the place for heavyweight confrontations between experts , which can only leave the general public feeling confused . |
| 21 | One can only applaud the selfless dedication of our law-enforcers . |
| 22 | We can only identify the proper criteria correctly if we accept that medical treatment in general ought to be divided , for our purposes , into two classes . |
| 23 | Most people can only influence the local and the familial , so if people are parochial it 's probably because they 're relatively powerless elsewhere . |
| 24 | This is a particularly ill-chosen moment to start ringing population alarm bells , as it can only threaten the UNCED process . |
| 25 | They can only mean the magic word — Connie ! |
| 26 | Some people just do n't want to sell and we can only pay the going rate . |
| 27 | But the ruling says they can only pay the bare minimum . |
| 28 | Our eardrum is effectively sealed and so sound waves can only reach the front part of the membrane . |
| 29 | As for the artistic effects of invasion and concentration camps , that can only prompt the awkward question whether the ensuing creativity of occupied Europe ever justified the price that was enforced and paid . |
| 30 | This short feature can only outline the various heating options available . |