Example sentences of "the [noun sg] can [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their manager , Marvin Rodriguez , promises a ‘ conservative game ’ in Italy , but Cayasso and Coronado are a couple of forwards to watch provided the defence can get the ball away . |
| 2 | Languages : Dutch ( official ) ; Hindustani ( 32% ) and Javanese ( 15% ) ; the majority can speak the native language Sranang Tongo ( taki-taki ) . |
| 3 | Languages:Dutch ( official ) ; Hindustani ( 32% ) and Javanese ( 15% ) ; the majority can speak the native language Sranang Tongo ( taki-taki ) . |
| 4 | Not only is it a bad conductor of heat — so putting up running costs — but the fur can reduce the effective internal diameter of a pipe and can eventually lead leaking , immersion heaters burning out , and noises in the water heating system . |
| 5 | The support can work the other way ; physiological knowledge can help us to build models . |
| 6 | Whatever the method , it is vital to keep accurate , up-to-date figures so that the retailer can maintain the ideal stock level . |
| 7 | A companion horse who is used to being floated , if floated with the beginner can make the difference between success and disaster . |
| 8 | This is very much a two-edged sword , since the only way that the beginner can prevent the model tipping over is to close the throttle , yet any sudden closing of the throttle is to be avoided , for the reasons already given . |
| 9 | The winner can pick the hotel from Thomas Cook 's current Paris/Amsterdam brochure , which also has on offer — at extra cost — a list of great excursions , including trips to Euro Disney , the Palace of Versailles , Montmartre and the Moulin Rouge . |
| 10 | While the PSSRU can take the credit for raising awareness of the potential of case management for frail elderly people , why is awareness of case management provision for children so limited ? |
| 11 | Even when a discharge is discovered , it is sometimes very difficult to establish where the other end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling sample buckets , proceeding by trial and error to narrow down the possible sources of pollution . |
| 12 | It is the people , the parliament actually , because the Emir when he proposes a cabinet the parliament can accept the cabinet , or change , or request it to be changed and even the Prime Minister , which is proposed or nominated by the Emir , the cabinet has to approve him , and together they they run the business of the government . |
| 13 | Thinking requires prior knowledge and learning — it makes little sense to reinvent the wheel — but too much emphasis on learning what has been the case can inhibit the growth of thinking about how to do things in unusual and interesting ways . |
| 14 | The editors are aware of the dangers accompanying the recent transformation of AI from ugly duckling to golden-egg-laying goose : ‘ The crisis we now face is a crisis of success , and many wonder if the substance of the field can support the high hopes . ’ |
| 15 | Why think if the computer can do the thinking for you ? |
| 16 | Package rates — when special rates are offered to travel agents or tour operators , the computer can distribute the charges to their respective departments . |
| 17 | The assignment of binary bit patterns to operation codes , and of portions of the operation code field to positions in the instruction format , must be done in such a way that the hardware of the computer can decode the instruction ; thus it must be possible to extract an initial portion of the operation code from a fixed position in the instruction and decide , from the bit pattern found there , whether an operation is now specified ( in which case the rest of the instruction can be interpreted as secondary fields ) or whether a further portion of instruction has to be decoded , and so on . |
| 18 | By putting the elements in the radar out-of-step with each other to various degrees , the computer can use the array to make a radar beam that can flit across the sky and track a number of targets almost simultaneously . |
| 19 | So the original word was made flesh , turned into words and the computer can turn the words into guesses at the Origin of the Word . |
| 20 | This , of course , assumes that there are returning officers in existence to whom the Clerk can send the writ . |
| 21 | Secondly , it has become increasingly clear that the category can marginalize the racialization of other British minorities . |
| 22 | For example , if the category can take the values 1 to 7 , the factory number can be 01 to 11 , the product type can be 01 to 37 , and the number of products in the type can range from 001 to 999 , with 147 being the largest required at present ( the number varies with type ) , then we might have the following runs of continuous numbers made up of the digits representing the category , factory , product type and number of products : |
| 23 | I 'm advised that the Chairman can call the reserve , the speaker who reserved his remarks at any time . |
| 24 | Indeed , Ulpian puts the case of a seller of a female slave who knowingly allows the buyer to believe that she is a virgin when she is not ( D.19.1.11.5 ) , a defect which is treated as being strictly liable so that the buyer can return the slave . |
| 25 | If he fails to do so , he is in breach of condition ; the buyer can treat the contract as repudiated and sue for non-delivery . |
| 26 | If the machine has not been delivered by that date , the buyer can treat the failure to deliver as a breach of a condition and he can cancel the contract as time for delivery is usually construed as being a condition ; see Hartley v Hyams [ 1920 ] . |
| 27 | At present the buyer can reject the goods for any breach of condition , however minor the breach . |
| 28 | From the consumer 's point of view , the drawback to the implied terms in the Sale of Goods Act is that only the buyer can sue the seller . |
| 29 | Cars are expensive tools of our everyday lies , but at least , with so many manufacturers now providing so many different models , the buyer can tailor the choice of vehicle to the usage . |
| 30 | The framework can offer the opportunity , not only to raise the staff 's awareness of the issues which surround the concept of meeting needs , but hopefully to challenge some of the traditional dogmas which beset it . |