Example sentences of "can [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these situations metals are preferred for mechanical reasons but problems can arise owing to toxic reactions to either the metal , or wear debris . |
| 2 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 3 | For the sulfate ion , the triply-degenerate modes can show splitting into two or three components . |
| 4 | Users need not work through the exercises sequentially , but can choose according to immediate need . |
| 5 | They always wanted us to put up with something — for example , I can remember riding in sweltering heat in the back of an old car of my father 's , in which the back windows did n't open ( be strong ) . |
| 6 | ‘ To give an illustration , I can remember working with one very eminent Director , Julian Aymes , as his Production Assistant . |
| 7 | This leads to the concept of secondary reinforcement , in that things that are not actually drive- or need-reducing , but are consistently associated with the things which reduce the stimuli associated with the drive , can become reinforcing through this association and themselves reduce drive-stimuli . |
| 8 | Recovery takes about a month but bouts of fever and liverishness can keep returning for some while . |
| 9 | Perhaps you can advise me how I can stop thinking about that horrible book . |
| 10 | But companies can stop giving at any time ; under the traditional system of covenants , they were committed to giving an annual donation for four years . |
| 11 | Now that Turkish eyes have turned eastward , and Greek ones northward , perhaps the two countries can stop glaring at each other . |
| 12 | Within each niche , similar animals can avoid competing with each other by working shifts . |
| 13 | One kind is the establishment of joint ventures for exporting : the justification is that they can share the fixed costs , and pool expertise , in penetrating foreign markets , and that they can avoid competing against each other for foreign orders . |
| 14 | When a supply teacher 's standards of discipline or expectations of children 's performance do n't match those of the school , trouble can develop resulting in strained relationships , unhappy children , disgruntled parents and tales that will damage the school 's reputation taken to other schools by the supply teacher . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll call for you after lunch , and we can go shopping for all the things I thought you 'd like to choose for yourself . ’ |
| 16 | And a , that postal road , you can go walking for this . |
| 17 | D' you think I 'm well off , is that why I live in this flat , on this estate where no one talks to you because they 're afraid and people like you can come bursting in any hour of the day or night because the place is so badly built the locks do n't fit the doors anyway . |
| 18 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |
| 19 | Mid-way , after a long , hard time , we stopped for a rest — at least , as much of a rest as you can get standing in knee-deep water unable to put down your rucsac . |
| 20 | Er when there 's already an abusive sort of dynamic going on erm y'know other people who are more similar in age can can can get can start participating in that . |
| 21 | Sorry , twenty four percent , twenty four percent body weight erm about a quarter in other words when , when a young woman 's body is about one quarter fat , she can start menstruating for obvious reasons . |
| 22 | One can sit leafing through glossy English magazines , reading in House and Garden about somebody 's ‘ elegantly understated ’ home in Kensington while passing within yards of a rather more understated Egyptian peasant 's home of mud-brick . |
| 23 | ECSTASY can cause bleeding in all the body 's major organs . |
| 24 | Well I well , you can imagine living in these bloody back to back slums . |
| 25 | I can imagine looking like this , having this image , until I 'm forty . |