Example sentences of "can [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 2 | To get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 3 | If you read with such issues in mind — and how they actively affect what sense you can make of a text — introductory notes often become relevant and interesting in unexpected ways . |
| 4 | Horses certainly do n't instinctively like being patted : a pat is the closest gesture we can make to a kick . |
| 5 | Talk about the contribution that facial expressions , gestures and tone of voice can make to a speaker 's meaning , eg in ironic and sarcastic uses of language . |
| 6 | Mark Watson and John Warwick , joint co-ordinators , who double as NISW consultant and information officer respectively , are happy to talk to those who have no more idea about what they want to do than , say , look at child abuse in Texas , as they are to someone who can build on a clutch of ready-made contacts . |
| 7 | The form tutor can well can build in a lot of good practises that have been built in |
| 8 | To safeguard against this sort of distortion , yet without basically interfering with our random system , we can build in a sort of screening device which is called stratification . |
| 9 | They need to know someone has charge of their lives , then they can build from a base of safety and security . |
| 10 | So let's see if we can think of a way of doing it . |
| 11 | There are 2 points in X. If N is 3 , then you can think of a cube , drawn in the corner of the three axes of Cartesian geometry . |
| 12 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ I can think of a couple of occasions when patronising you was the last thing on my mind . ’ |
| 14 | As you can think of a rhombus as two iso two same-sized isosceles |
| 15 | Who can think of a word to describe that jungle and that girl all by herself . |
| 16 | We can no more abolish one without destroying the others than we can think of a circle without a circumference … |
| 17 | ‘ I can think of a cure for that . ’ |
| 18 | Listen , if you can think of a cure , let me know . |
| 19 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 20 | er whereas if you had said positively that I 'm sure you can think of a number of |
| 21 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 22 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
| 23 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 24 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 25 | If you think about this you can think of a kite as two isosceles triangles glued together . |
| 26 | But since field staff can sample in a day only a minuscule proportion of the discharges and watercourses in their districts , the coincidence of sampling when a serious ‘ one-off ’ pollution is occurring is very unlikely . |
| 27 | This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines . |
| 28 | Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt , a bikini top — or even as a scarf . |
| 29 | The carrycots can double as a bed un the first few months , which is ideal if you 're staying away overnight , but make sure that the cot does n't get damp from rain during the day . |
| 30 | She also points out the importance of the older person having some privacy however dependent he or she becomes , with a room that can double as a sitting room and includes , if possible , TV , electric kettle , cups , and so on , so that there is an independent place to be . |