Example sentences of "can [verb] [noun prp] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 210 children have taken up the panto 's challenge and sought the advice of professional builders so they can construct Wendy 's house in brick in their school yard . |
| 2 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 3 | But nothing , and certainly not articulating his words ‘ cheerfully and artlessly ’ , can muffle Tikhon 's diagnosis which is that Stavrogin suffers from ‘ indifference ’ . |
| 4 | The United States can influence Guatemala 's government and restrain its army by the aid it gives . |
| 5 | But if President Bush decides to go to Moscow next month for his planned summit meeting with Mr Gorbachev , he can deliver America 's condemnation of the violence in person . |
| 6 | If this is the case , however , several questions need to be answered in respect of classical theory before we can accept Pigou 's rehabilitation as complete and can consign Keynes 's theory of labour market adjustment to an unlamented oblivion : was classical theory guilty of confusing the workings of a money using economy with those of barter . |
| 7 | The last thing that a representational theorist really wants to have to explain is the global nature of thinking ; and I suppose we can regard Fodor 's pessimism as an implicit kind of owning up to this . |
| 8 | They can catch Flint 's crew — all that are left — at the Admiral Benbow . |
| 9 | Because we know more today about the sources of infection and pollution , about quarantine an isolation , hygiene and preventive medicine , we can watch Israel 's obedience actually fulfilling God 's promise to take away their sickness ( Exodus 23:15 ) . |
| 10 | There are various historical reference points made available to us , by which it is said we can chart Britain 's fall from grace . |
| 11 | We can restate Saussure 's argument by saying that he is taking colour terminology as paradigmatic for all language ; just as colour terms impose arbitrary divisions on the continuous spectrum of light waves , so all other words impose arbitrary divisions on the ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ which , without language , would constitute our mental experience . |
| 12 | Only Jim Crane , ambitious but a little more human than the other hacks , can break Alice 's wall of silence . |
| 13 | ah , how do you reckon what 's er name can do Ken 's job that cheap ? |
| 14 | We can show Lucas 's argument using the model developed in section 4.6 . |
| 15 | Yeah , I can remember Ohm 's Law . |
| 16 | Paul Trowbridge , UK marketing manager with SynOptics Communications Inc , said that he can understand Proteon 's viewpoint , and believes that APPI development has been driven by the financing questions surrounding APPN . |
| 17 | For a start I think we can discount Bavin 's Bank despite the similarity with the Bavents and the fact that until the early part of this century the foundations of an old building were visible , the reason being that among the Whornes title deeds , Bavins and its adjacent lands are mentioned separately with Langridge . |
| 18 | Maybe God can use Paul 's example of righteousness to challenge us ? |
| 19 | In addition to working back from subsequent arrangements , we can use Gregory 's narrative to establish the spheres of activity of the various kings . |
| 20 | Visitors can see Barnaby 's bazaar of teddy bear souvenirs or try their luck at the tombola , where they could win one of the teddies donated by a celebrity . |
| 21 | I can see Doug 's fishing line bent like a hurricane palm . |
| 22 | One can see Tolkien 's attempt to extend that tradition in the hobbit-poems scattered through The Lord of the Rings — or to be more accurate , in the new hobbit-poems . |
| 23 | When you consider the ghastly , tricksy little triangles of thin aluminium section which erupt pseudo-picturesquely along the parapet line of many an otherwise lumpen modern block , you can see Soane 's point . |
| 24 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 25 | And with what we have left here , we can stop Siward 's army from joining the others . ’ |
| 26 | Taken together , these studies clearly show how a detailed evaluation of different cell types and mediators of inflammation and immonoregulation can separate Crohn 's disease from ulcerative colitis . |
| 27 | Daddy can wash Rebecca 's hair ! |
| 28 | Mr Hooke is hoping he can meet BAe 's finance director with his lead investor this week . |
| 29 | I think I can interpret Ken 's request for it to be done by the end of the week as meaning in his hands on Monday morning . |
| 30 | Only intervention and investment in education and training to promote the nation 's science base and to enhance technology can reverse Britain 's decline . |