Example sentences of "can [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I think it , it , in the , obviously to , to support er , the , the that the building going ahead , erm will mean that the case at erm Stansted will be er containable to enabling passengers even if they are passengers erm it will be , will be absorb the public needs o of the area and the runners be erm arrived at after many , many er , er years Council planning erm does think that we ca n't contain that and er it would be possible to resist these rescued if we can remain at the figures that erm have been out at Stansted . |
| 2 | I hope we can stay at the top for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 3 | We can stay at the top because we 've got a good enough squad to keep us there . |
| 4 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 5 | Peter Schmidt of the Stiftung Wissenschaft Politik at Ebenhausen , a leading expert on European defence and security issues , has identified the formulation of a Common Foreign and Security policy as the product of a ‘ top-down approach ’ which ‘ regards the political union of Western Europe within the framework of the EC as an end in itself ’ , rather than of a ‘ functional or horizontal approach ’ which ‘ asks in a practical way which defence functions can and should be handled in a Western European framework , which ones can remain attached to existing defence arrangements — above all that means Nato — and which ones can stay at the disposal of nation states ’ . |
| 6 | You receive a book of orders ( or pension book ) which you can cash at a post office of your choice . |
| 7 | Trivial or shallow , in particular , are criticisms levelled at young women for their concern over their appearance ; one of the worst current insults you can throw at an actress or pop star is that she 's a bimbo — concerned only with her looks and nothing else . |
| 8 | But genes can act at a distance ; extended phenotypes can extend a long way . |
| 9 | It 's a lot of fun , and people can excel at a variety of skills . |
| 10 | While the controller or finance director of a subsidiary will spend most of his or her time working on the financial accounts , and can excel at the job by being a good housekeeper , the group finance director , often number two to the chief executive , plays a large part in the running of the company and therefore needs a considerably wider range of skills . |
| 11 | Styled in hard-wearing canadium , it has a built-in meter so that you can know at a glance if you 're applying enough pressure . |
| 12 | It means that only one person can speak at a time and that members can not address each other directly . |
| 13 | It is no sin that all you can feel at the moment is trapped , not by Harry , even though that is what you think , but by your own reaction to him . |
| 14 | Perhaps it 's the moaning you can do at the top , or the relief of getting down and into the warmth . |
| 15 | ‘ If there is anything we can do at the dams , it may be that we can raise their levels by even two or three inches , but that has implications for the surrounding countryside . ’ |
| 16 | The best we can do at the moment , until the ‘ organic revolution ’ hits the high street , is to eat foods as near as possible to their natural state — not out of tins and packets . |
| 17 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the best you can do at the moment . |
| 19 | A preview will tell you what the software can do at the moment — we do n't go too heavily on any minor bugs or inconsistencies at the preview stage , but we do criticise bad design and form an opinion about whether the software will be up to scratch when it gets released . |
| 20 | All Leeds can do at the moment is keep winning the games we should win and clock the away victories , so that when the Uniteds of this world come along we wo n't be psyched out of beating them . |
| 21 | I think that 's , that 's all we can do at the moment and I take your point Mr , thank you . |
| 22 | Well you , that 's what you can do at the moment . |
| 23 | Erm , living there because all can do at the moment , is work in a shop or a restaurant or something like that and she does n't get paid as much as she 'll get on Social Security so it 's not worth it , |
| 24 | Because of the kudos it can bring at the golf club , once there they are hard to dislodge . |
| 25 | Modern microprocessors and computer technology have made such rapid advances that telecommunications and internal communications systems are now in compact units without plugs , switches , or buttons : just small keyboards with touch-sensitive depressions , some with small visual display units ( VDUs ) which can show at a glance the status of all calls being handled and prompt the operator through every procedure so that training can be reduced to a minimum . |
| 26 | A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system . |
| 27 | Against that , many of the pile-'em-high-and-sell-'em-cheap stores that took advantage of falling property prices to expand in Britain are convinced they can grow at the expense of existing supermarket chains even when good times return . |
| 28 | Even a Gladiator can crack at a moment like that . ’ |
| 29 | By displaying the hierarchical and relative structure of the classification the user can search at a subject level over and above the strict document level . |
| 30 | But I 've also laid down strict guidelines on how much time he can spend at the screen . |